Concrete is a material that strong in compression but weak tension. To overcome this issue, reinforcement must be used to improve the tensile strength of concrete. However, it acknowledged steel has its drawbacks, such as fact high cost and corrosion potential, rebar heavy, non-renewable, non-environmentally friendly. Thus, experimental study investigates potential product economical reinforced...

Whether monetary, environmental, or otherwise, the cost of structure is always an important aspect when designing reinforced concrete. A with a low desirable, but other considerations must be made. First and foremost, structures should safe. The two conditions define structural optimization problem that this paper seeks to solve as finding lowest cost, which also Validation concrete in ultimate...

Inorganic Phosphate Cement (IPC) is a new cementitious material, developed at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), which sets at room temperature. Due to its non-alkaline environment during and after setting and hardening, IPC can be combined with glass fibre reinforcement. Such a textile reinforced cementitious is an interesting material in those applications where high load-bearing capacity,...

The paper aims to present the experimental data retrieved after ultrasonic non-destructive testing on metallic particle reinforced polymeric composite materials. The particles’ size (μm), volume fraction as well as the matrix material (different types of polymeric materials – e.g. epoxy, vinyl epoxy, etc.) has their influence on the overall elastic characteristics of the composite material. On ...