development of fibre reinforced cementitious composite for ceiling application纤维增强胶结复合天花板上应用的发展.pdfVIP

Journal of Minerals Materials Characterization Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 8, pp 583-590, 2009 Printed in the USA. All rights reserved Development of Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composite for Ceiling Application 1 1 1 2 I.O. Oladele *, A.D. Akinwekomi , S. Aribo , and A.K. Aladenika 1Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. 2Department of Science Laboratory Technology Rufus Giwa polytechnic Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria *Corresponding Author: wolesuccess2000@, akeemzy@ ABSTRACT Natural sponge fibre (Acanthus montanus) was used as reinforcement for ceiling materials in this research work. This fibre, being fairly strong and stiff as well as cheap and plentiful with low energy demand during manufacture, are strong contenders for the reinforcement of cement- based materials. The fibre, whose mass fraction was the variable in this work, was cut down into smaller sizes and mixed with pulverised waste paper, cement and water. The resulting slurry was then poured into rectangular moulds which were compacted until the excess water was expelled and resulting composites became hard. Demoulded samples were left to cure in the open laboratory air for 28 days. Flexural and water absorptivity tests were carried out on the various samples which showed that reinforcement and best mechanical properties were obtained at optimum fibre mass fraction of 4% when compared with the brittle matrix in the absence of reinforcement. These tests