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Expanded polystyrene fibred lightweight concrete (epsf-lwc) as a load bearing wall panel
Jamilah Abd Rahim1, Siti Hawa Hamzah2, Hamidah Mohd Saman3.
This study was conducted to determine the optimum mix proportion of lightweight
concrete (LWC) containing expanded polystyrene (EPS) and steel fiber which is
designated as Expanded Polystyrene Fibred Lightweight Concrete (EPSF-LWC) for load
bearing wall application. In order to produce LWC, EPS beads were chosen as lightweight
aggregate because it gives advantages in term of energy absorbing capacity which
suitable for structure that would be exposed to impact like shear wall. However, EPS beads
possess zero strength. Therefore, steel fibre was added to improve LWC strength and also
to reduce occurrence of micro and macro crack. In the mix design method, the
percentage of EPS beads adding to the mix are differ while the percentage of steel fibre
is same. The result showed optimum mix design was the one that contained 30% of EPS
and 0.5 % of steel fibre and is designated as M8. The compressive strength EPSF-LWC of mix
proportion designated as M8 is 19.51 MPa with density 1939 kg/m3. It is greater than 17
MPa as the requirement for structure component application that stated in the BS8110.
Hence, reinforced and unreinforced EPS-LWC wall panels were constructed to determine
the maximum loading that wall can sustain and deflection profile EPSF-LWC wall panel for
the loaded to failure. The wall was set up under pinned-fixed end support condition. The
sample was modelled using finite element analysis (FEA) for validation with experimental
programme. The maximum loading capacity was found to be 908.20 kN and 853.40 kN
for each reinforced (WR5) and unreinforced (WUR5) of EPSF-LWC wall panel. These loading
were 31% to 35% less than finite element analysis. However, WR5 and WUR5 EPSF-LWC wall
panel was deformed in single curvature profile for both experimental and FEA. Maximum
deflection for WR5and WUR5 of EPSF-LWC recorded is 10.27 mm and 12.95 mm occurred
at 0.7 heights (H) of wall panel. According to Euler buckling load theory, the location of
maximum lateral displacement of wall panel sample is influenced by the type of fixity at
end support of the sample.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
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