Stone-base, a material often used for base construction in flexible pavements, have recent studies been shown to be suitable as an all – concreting aggregate. This study investigated the crushing, flexural and split tensile strengths well other mechanical properties of stone-base laterized concretes (SBLC). Normal river sand fine aggregate was partially replaced by laterite while coarse proport...

This paper develops the CCAPM model to allow for long-run risk in durable consumption. Allowing Epstein-Zin preferences to incorporate non-separability of durable and non-durable consumption in utility provides for an Euler equation which can be shown to provide a much better explanation of equity market features than either the basic CAPM or CCAPM. .The paper incorporates this discount factor ...

This paper studies the financing of durable assets in a model with collateral constraints due to limited enforcement. Durability affects the ease of financing: we show that more durable assets require larger down payments of internal funds per unit of capital making them harder to finance, because durability raises the price of an asset and hence the overall financing need more than its collate...

Corrosion is one of the main issues affecting service life reinforced concrete structures. The Open Circuit Potential (OCP) technique a non-destructive method used to survey and monitor this problem. This test can also be in laboratory environment provide valuable information supporting selection process supplementary materials for durable concretes. Although qualitative commonly used, there st...

The global sustainable construction aimed to minimize the ecological impacts of constructed facilities’ lifetime. In construction, concretes are major materials utilized in South East Asia. Thus, it makes environmental and economic sense utilize recycled production new for diverse uses. This review indicated that practical implementations aggregate (RAC) area is greatly lacking, even though the...

Abstract Advances in the nanotechnology have been actively applied to field of aerospace engineering where there is a constant necessity high durable material with low density and better thermo-mechanical properties. Over past decade, carbon nanotubes-based composites are widely utilised owing its fascinating properties resulting series multidisciplinary industrial applications. Carbon nanotube...

We study consumption of durable and nondurable goods when the durable good is subject to transaction costs. In the model, agents derive utility from a service flow of a durable good and a consumption flow of a nondurable good. The key feature of the model is the existence of a fixed transaction cost in the durable good market. The fixed cost induces an inaction region in the purchase of the dur...