Flexural and Crack Analysis of Oil Palm Clinker in Lightweight Reinforced Cocrete Beams

Abstract:

Oil palm clinker is made from waste burning of oil palm shell and the fibrous material in oil palm mill. The clinker has changed into permanent state, which is no longer a bio-material after undergone high temperature burning process. Large quantities of various sizes of oil palm clinker wastes have become disposal constraints. It requires extra costs for handling, transporting and searching out the suitable dumping sites. Study was found that the clinker is lightweight and satisfactorily achieved compressive strength to make lightweight concrete structure. Several lightweight oil palm clinker concrete beams were designed and tested according to British standard Code of Practices. The results shows the provision can be conservatively used to design the lightweight oil palm clinker concrete beam reinforced with deformed bar. Experimental loads were found higher than the design loads for all the tested beams. Therefore, the equation used to calculate ultimate load is safe and satisfactory.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 673)
• Pages: 65-74
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.673.65
• Online since: January 2016
• Authors: Rezuwan Kamaruddin*, Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah, Muhammad Faheem Mohd Tahir
• Keywords: Lightweight Concrete, Palm Oil Clinker, Reinforced Concrete Beam

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