Drying shrinkage causes tensile stress in restrained concrete members. Since all structural elements are subject to some degree of restraint, (trying shrinkage is regarded to be one of the main causes of concrete cracking.

In this study we establish the concept of functionally graded fiber cement. We discuss the use of statistical mixture designs to choose formulations and present ideas for the production of functionally graded fiber cement ...

This paper presents the properties of a new fibre cement material formed by short ductile copper fibres randomly distributed in portland cement paste and compacted by compression to 35 MPa. The optimum percentage and the ...

Acrylic bone cement is often used in total joint replacement procedures to anchor an orthopaedic implant to bone. Bone cement is a viscoelastic material that exhibits creep and stress relaxation properties, which have been ...

This paper presents two numerical models for the evaluation of the distribution of stresses in corrugated sheets of fibre cement subjected to uplift load. The numerical simulations, in this case, were made from three-dimensional ...

Experimental cement formulations were prepared by replacing part of the methylmethacrylate (MMA) liquid phase of a conventional surgical cement with an equivalent weight of 2,2-bis [4(2-hydroxy-3-methacryloxypropoxy) phenyl] ...

A range of MgO and SiO2 blends mixed with water are analyzed to develop clinker-free fiber-cement products reinforced with cellulosic fibers. The target is the development of a binder which is not chemically aggressive to ...