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Mortar

About: Mortar is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25024 publications have been published within this topic receiving 218739 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, four recycled fillers (powdered rubbers, tyre rubber, micronized tyre fibers and milled electrical cable wastes) have been used to formulate new polymer mortars.
Abstract: Recycling industrial wastes as filler components and/or aggregates in polymer mortars makes these materials very interesting from an ecological and safety point of view. In addition, the resulting materials have useful physical and mechanical properties. Four recycled fillers (powdered rubbers, tyre rubbers, micronized tyre fibers and milled electrical cable wastes) have been used to formulate new polymer mortars. The comparison of their mechanical properties and microstructures with those of a plain polymer mortar indicates that the presence of recycled waste affects the physical–mechanical behavior (compressive and flexural strengths, microstructure). The use of silane coupling agents has been also considered and its effect in leading to more compact materials is reported and discussed.

74 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, an approach of aligning steel fibers in cement mortar using external uniform electromagnetic field is presented, which is the rotating process of steel fiber driven by magnetic force to overcome the viscous impeding of the mortar.

73 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the feasibility of reusing spent zeolite catalyst, after fluidized catalytic cracking, as a substitute for fine aggregate (sand) in cement mortars was examined.
Abstract: This study examined the feasibility of reusing spent zeolite catalyst, after fluidized catalytic cracking, as a substitute for fine aggregate (sand) in cement mortars. The tested result shows that spent catalyst can replace up to 10% of fine aggregate without decreasing the mortar strength. In fact, the substituted mortars show higher compressive strength than the unsubstituted samples. The flowability of the fresh mortars decreases with increasing substitution level and the mortars incorporated with spent catalyst show less bleeding. In the hardened state, the water absorption of the resulting mortar increases with longer curing age, higher substitution level and smaller water-to-cement (W/C) ratio. Toxicity characteristic leaching procedure (TCLP) analysis confirms that the spent catalyst meets the standard, and thus should be classified as general non-hazardous industrial waste.

73 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of geopolymer cement based on blend of waste-glass powder and calcium aluminate cement in pH = 3 of HCl and H2SO4 solutions for 24 months was investigated and compared to Portland cement and high alumina cement mortars as reference.

73 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the compressive strength of a masonry structure composed of clay bricks and cement mortar was determined using Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, by using only two parameters: the strength of the mortar and that of the bricks.

73 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
20231,804
20223,038
20211,143
20201,529
20191,628