Influence of Cellulosic Fibres on the Physical Properties of Fibre Cement Composites

Nowadays, there are new approaches directing to processing of non-conventional fibre-cement composites for application in the housing construction. Vegetable cellulosic fibres coming from natural resources used as reinforcement in cost-effective and environmental friendly building products are in th...

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Published in:IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2017-10, Vol.251 (1), p.12015
Main Authors: Hospodarova, V, Stevulova, N, Vaclavik, V, Dvorsky, T
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical materials
Cellulose fibers
Cement
Composite materials
Density
Heat conductivity
Heat transfer
Materials selection
Natural resources
Physical properties
Plasters
Raw materials
Thermal conductivity
Wood pulp
Workability
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Summary:Nowadays, there are new approaches directing to processing of non-conventional fibre-cement composites for application in the housing construction. Vegetable cellulosic fibres coming from natural resources used as reinforcement in cost-effective and environmental friendly building products are in the spotlight. The applying of natural fibres in cement based composites is narrowly linked to the ecological building sector, where a choice of materials is based on components including recyclable, renewable raw materials and low-resource manufacture techniques. In this paper, two types of cellulosic fibres coming from wood pulp and recycled waste paper with 0.2%; 0.3% and 0.5% of fibre addition into cement mixtures were used. Differences in the physical characteristics (flowability, density, coefficient of thermal conductivity and water absorbability) of 28 days hardened fibre-cement composites are investigated. Addition of cellulosic fibres to cement mixture caused worsening the workability of fresh mixture as well as absorbability of hardened composites due to hydrophilic nature of biomaterial, whereas density and thermal conductivity of manufactured cement based fibre plaster are enhanced. The physical properties of cement plasters based on cellulosic fibres depend on structural, physical characteristics of cellulosic fibres, their nature and processing.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/251/1/012015