Date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materials
Abstract Background Various recent studies have investigated the use of traditional fibers (metallic or synthetic) as reinforcement in mortar. In recent times, there has been growing interest in using natural fibers as reinforcement in cement composites. This study was conducted to assess the impact...
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| description | Abstract Background Various recent studies have investigated the use of traditional fibers (metallic or synthetic) as reinforcement in mortar. In recent times, there has been growing interest in using natural fibers as reinforcement in cement composites. This study was conducted to assess the impact of date palm, doum palm, and sisal fibers on the mechanical properties of cement composites. Genetic modeling was chosen to find the shear damage at the fiber-matrix interface of the three cement composites using genetic crossing operator, which allows us to calculate the damage at the interface using two damages of the matrix and the fibers, respectively. Results Our objective is to examine and evaluate the interface damage of date palm/mortar, doum palm/mortar and sisal/mortar under different mechanical tensile stresses ranging from 25 to 37 MPa with fiber volume fraction from 1 to 5%. It was found that the interface damage of date palm/mortar and doum palm/mortar cement composites was minimal compared to that of sisal/mortar. However, several researchers found that an increase in fiber volume fraction leads to decrease in mechanical properties and density in cement composites what we confirmed in this study that interface damage increases when the volume fraction increases. Conclusions The results are in line with the findings of a recent experimental study on the use of other plant fibers. Their results showed that incorporating ramie fibers resulted in a 27% increase in compressive strength, whereas the use of synthetic fibers resulted in 4% decrease in tensile strength in compression. It is recommended the use of doum and date palm natural fibers in the composition of mortars with a fiber volume fraction of 1 to 5% in order to reduce and avoid interface damage and limit the negative impact of synthetic fibers on the environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e0bb8be9b58f43928d8ab2f559a6c5da2023-04-09T11:24:16ZengSpringerOpenBeni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences2314-85432023-04-0112111210.1186/s43088-023-00374-9Date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materialsKhaled Bendahane0Mohammed Belkheir1Allel Mokaddem2Bendouma Doumi3Ahmed Boutaous4Laboratoire d’Instrumentation et Matériaux Avancés, Centre Universitaire Nour Bachir El-BayadhLaboratoire d’Instrumentation et Matériaux Avancés, Centre Universitaire Nour Bachir El-BayadhLaboratoire d’Instrumentation et Matériaux Avancés, Centre Universitaire Nour Bachir El-BayadhLaboratoire d’Instrumentation et Matériaux Avancés, Centre Universitaire Nour Bachir El-BayadhDépartement Technologie des Matériaux, Faculté de Physique, Université des Sciences et de la Technologie, USTO-MBAbstract Background Various recent studies have investigated the use of traditional fibers (metallic or synthetic) as reinforcement in mortar. In recent times, there has been growing interest in using natural fibers as reinforcement in cement composites. This study was conducted to assess the impact of date palm, doum palm, and sisal fibers on the mechanical properties of cement composites. Genetic modeling was chosen to find the shear damage at the fiber-matrix interface of the three cement composites using genetic crossing operator, which allows us to calculate the damage at the interface using two damages of the matrix and the fibers, respectively. Results Our objective is to examine and evaluate the interface damage of date palm/mortar, doum palm/mortar and sisal/mortar under different mechanical tensile stresses ranging from 25 to 37 MPa with fiber volume fraction from 1 to 5%. It was found that the interface damage of date palm/mortar and doum palm/mortar cement composites was minimal compared to that of sisal/mortar. However, several researchers found that an increase in fiber volume fraction leads to decrease in mechanical properties and density in cement composites what we confirmed in this study that interface damage increases when the volume fraction increases. Conclusions The results are in line with the findings of a recent experimental study on the use of other plant fibers. Their results showed that incorporating ramie fibers resulted in a 27% increase in compressive strength, whereas the use of synthetic fibers resulted in 4% decrease in tensile strength in compression. It is recommended the use of doum and date palm natural fibers in the composition of mortars with a fiber volume fraction of 1 to 5% in order to reduce and avoid interface damage and limit the negative impact of synthetic fibers on the environment.https://doi.org/10.1186/s43088-023-00374-9InterfaceShear damageGenetic operatorsDoum palmDate palmSisal fiber |
| spellingShingle | Khaled Bendahane Mohammed Belkheir Allel Mokaddem Bendouma Doumi Ahmed Boutaous Date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materials Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences Interface Shear damage Genetic operators Doum palm Date palm Sisal fiber |
| title | Date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materials |
| title_full | Date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materials |
| title_fullStr | Date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materials |
| title_short | Date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materials |
| title_sort | date and doum palm natural fibers as renewable resource for improving interface damage of cement composites materials |
| topic | Interface Shear damage Genetic operators Doum palm Date palm Sisal fiber |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s43088-023-00374-9 |
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