Experimental studies on basalt fiber have been performed in China and abroad. Specifically, the compressive properties, flexural properties, splitting tensile properties and impact test behavior of chopped basalt fiber-reinforced concrete have been investigated. In addition, the effects of the mixing amount of fibers on the mechanical properties of C30 concrete were scrutinized, and the best mi...

The low-density polyethylene (LDPE)/aluminium mix obtained after the recovery of cellulose from multilayer aseptic packaging used in food and beverage industry is generally destined for energy recovery. In this work we propose it as a matrix value-added composite materials. A commercially available material (EcoAllene) recycling was reinforced with short natural basalt fibres up to 30 wt.% by t...

This paper reports the detailed examination of three basalt clasts from Apollo 16 breccia 60639 that represent a new variant of high-Ti basalt returned from the Moon by the Apollo 16 mission. Mineral chemistry and whole-rock analyses were conducted on aliquots from three clasts (breccia matrix, basalt, and basalt + breccia matrix). The basalt clasts, which are not overtly porphyritic, contain c...

We apply 2-D wave-equation prestack depth migration to a North Sea basalt dataset. High velocity and impedance contrasts across a basalt layer causes low P-wave reflection signal-to-noise ratio under the basalt. We first migrate the P-wave data with a provided depth velocity model, and then replace sub-basalt P-wave velocity with a simple estimate of shear wave velocity and migrate locally-conv...

The proposal by Hubbard et al. (1) that "Very High Alumina basalt" ("VHA basalt") may represent an important primary lunar magma type neglects consideration of certain well-characterized high-magnesium highland rocks, among them spinel troctolite from Luna 20 (2) and Apollo 16 samples (3) and dunite from Apollo 17 samples (4), and the possibility that "VHA basalt" may in fact have originated by...

The development, optimization and application of new geopolymer composite materials must necessarily go through a precise accurate physico-chemical mineralogical characterization down to the micro nanoscale. In this regard, SEM-EDS X-ray microanalysis is widely successfully employed by scientific community industry. However, nano-to-micrometre sized architecture many composites introduces diffi...

The paper presents two experimental methods for basalt processing by microwaves, and their results. One method employs a single-mode cavity to melt basalt, and to produce a volcanic glass (obsidian). The other method uses an open-end applicator (i.e. a microwave drill [1]) to form holes in basalt rocks. Experimental observations of the basalt interactions with microwaves in these two schemes ar...

Ferroan anorthosite VHK basalt Oldest basalt APOLLO 14 OLDEST MARE BASALT REVISITED: POSSIBLE PETROGENETIC CONNECTION BETWEEN MG GABBRONORITE AND VHK BASALT. T. Arai, H. Takeda, M. Miyamoto, and H. Kojima, Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research, 1-9-10 Kaga Itabashi Tokyo 173-8515, Japan, [email protected], Research Institute, Chiba Institute of Technology, Ts...