Behaviour of composite soil reinforced with natural fibres

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• 作者：Ghavami ; Khosrow ; Toledo Filho ; Romildo D. ; Barbosa ; Normando P.
• 关键词：Composite fabrication ; Composite materials ; Compression test ; Failure ; Fibre-reinforced soil ; Natural fibres ; Product development ; Soil ; Strains ; Strength of material ; Stress ; Tensile test ; Waterproofing
• 刊名：Cement and Concrete Composites
• 出版年：1999
• 出版时间：February, 1999
• 年：1999
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：39-48
• 全文大小：682 K

文摘

Next to the food shortage, the housing shortage is one of the most crucial problems on earth. To improve this situation and make it possible to build more houses, particularly for low-income families, it is necessary to examine all locally available materials which can be used for construction. Bamboo, sisal and coconut fibres are materials which are available in abundance in Brazil and are not used in civil construction. To increase the amount of information concerning the physical and mechanical behaviour of these materials several research programmes were executed at Pontifical Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPb) under the general supervision of the first author. In this paper new results are presented concerning the application of sisal and coconut fibres in conjunction with three types of locally appropriate soil for the production of composite soil blocks reinforced with sisal and coconut fibres.