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In this work, no-fine lightweight concrete was produced by using crushed bricks, thermostone as coarse aggregates to produce lightweight concrete. For both, superplasticizers were added to the mixture, the specimens were then cured in water for (7, 28, 60) days respectively.Compressive strength determine the mechanical properties, Physical properties of these concrete types were examined through thermal conductivity and fresh density. The compressive strength test showed that the compressive strength of the concrete was about (8-15.7) N/mm2 byusing natural gravel aggregate, (4.8-8.1) N/mm2 by using crushed bricks, and (3.14-5.4) N/mm2 by using thermostone aggregate. After 28 days, the thermal conductivity were (0.58),(0.41),(0.26) W/m.k, for the natural gravel ,crushed bricks and thermostone concrete.Besides; these concrete types are characterized by their low cost, environmentally friendly,high production rate, fire resistance, thermal insulation and light weight.

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The main objective of this study is to get more information about the flexural behavior of composite reinforced concrete slabs using two layer of concrete, first layer is light weight concrete (LWC), and second layer is normal weight concrete (NWC), through an experimental tests carried out on five samples different in their details and the position of the concrete type layer within the slabs. In this study, simply supported slabs subjected to one point load were adopted. The effect of concrete grade for the (LWC) was also studied. The light weight coarse aggregate which that used in this study is the expanded light clay aggregate (LECA). Using this type of light aggregate in concrete leads to reducing the weight of composite concrete slabs about (11.4%-17.5%). In this study, one grade of NWC was used of (25 MPa), while three of grade types were adopted for LWC (25 MPa, 18 MPa, 15 MPa).

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This investigation aim to study the effect of sisal fiber addition on the different properties of concrete, also to study the use of the Iraqi bauxite for the first time in Iraq as a pozzolanic material. Sisal fiber was used at three percentages of total mix volume (0.5%, 1.0% and 1.5%), Iraqi bauxite was used in three percentages (10%, 20% and 30%) as a partial replacement by weight of cement. This paper studied the effect of Sisal fiber and the Iraqi Bauxite on the mechanical properties which represented by the compressive strength, flexural strength, splitting strength, impact resistance for tiles, also the ultrasonic pulse velocity test which is one of the non-destructive testes, the pH level and water absorptions has been done. The results from this study showing that the concrete reinforced with sisal fiber and using Iraqi bauxite exhibited improvement in flexural strength and splitting tensile strength while a small reduction in compressive strength was reported. The results showed also improvement in the impact resistance. Adding of sisal fiber made a reduction in the ultrasonic pulse velocity. The results showed that this kind of concrete reported a reduction in water absorption in comparative with reference concrete reinforced with fibers only. The use of bauxite as a partial replacement of cement reduced the alkalinity of concrete reinforced with fiber and that would improve its durability. From the results of this investigation, found that concrete reinforced with 1.0% of sisal fiber give the best results and using Iraqi Bauxite with 20% as a partial replacement by weight of cement enhanced the properties of reinforced concrete with sisal fiber.

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AbstractThis study was conducted to investigate the properties of lightweight concrete produced by the inclusions of polystyrene beads and perlite that can be used for production of Canoe.Different percentages of polystyrene (20, 35, 50 and 65%) were used.Besides, the 50% of polystyrene beds with different percentages of perlite (10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60%) as partial replacement of sandwere used. The fresh density, compressive strength, flexural strength and absorption capacity of the mixes were tested. The results show that the uses of 50% of polystyrene with 50% of perlite as partial replacementof sand exhibit suitable ranges of density, compressive and flexural strengths of lightweight concrete used for canoe production. Thus, the Canoe produced from these inclusions of polystyrene and perlite show a clear success in terms of floating.

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Abstract-This research covers the use of cellular lightweight concrete waste as recycled coarse aggregates to produce lightweight concrete. Various volume fractions of coarse aggregate (35%, 50%,and 75%) were used. The specimens were tested for compressive strength and density at age of 28-days. The compressive strengths for the resulting lightweight concrete with a density of (2131, 1826 and 1630) kg/m3were (24, 22.6 and 11.5) MPa, respectively. In addition, silica fume was utilized as a constant replacement ratio 6% of cement weight for mixes lightweight aggregate to enhance the compressive strength of such concrete.

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The main purpose of this research is to study the strength of the RPC incorporating local powders (reactive silica sand powder) and compare it with RPC incorporating condensed silica fume. Original RPC- in form of superplasticized cement mixture with powder (reactive silica sand or silica fume ), steel fiber ,and fine sand (<600 mµ)- was studied in comparison with modified reactive powder concrete (MRPC) where a natural aggregate (max size 8mm)was used to replace the fine sand of the cementitious binder. In the present research work compressive strength, (incorporating local reactive silica sand powder) of reactive powder concrete and modified reactive powder concrete were studied. High 28-day compressive strengths (101-115 MPa) were gained when using local powders.

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A Vierendeel truss is a hyper static frame composed of a series of rectangular or trapezoidal panels with out diagonal members. The end conections of all members are rigid and designed to take moment. In this work, the use of fiber reinforced concrete in construction of Vierendeel trusses with nonlinear material behavior is researched. The addition of randomly dispersed discrete steel fibers to concrete improves many engineering properties of the material such as fracture toughness, fatigue resistance, impact resistance and flexural strength. Several parameters that affected the behavior of the structure like fiber volume fraction, aspect ratio, and the position of the portion in structure that used fibrous concrete are studied. All these studies are hold out by developing a program, named (P3DNFEA).

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Rutting is often responsible for premature maintenance and rehabilitation activities reducing service life of the pavement. Several finite element computer programs for analyzing flexible pavements have been developed over the years. Most of these programs (like ANSYS)did not take into consideration the effect of the aging factor on the behavior of viscoelastic asphalt concrete layer. The present work uses a displacement based finite element method to compute vertical compression strain and rutting depth for a flexible pavement system of three layers taking into consideration the aging (temperature) effect depending on Williams, Landel and Ferry (WLF) equation. Two popular tire/axle configurations with different tire pressure are investigated using the traditional approximate circular tire print.The results showed that the difference between the proposed technique and some other methods neglecting aging effect ranges from 5% to 15% while the difference between the proposed technique and linear elastic Pro-Engineer (version 4) program ranges from 10% to 17%.

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Research in Iraq has expanded in the field of material technology involving the properties of the lightweight concrete using natural aggregate. The use of the porcelinate aggregate in the production of structural light concrete has a wide objective and requires a lot of research to become suitable for practical application. In this work metakaolin was used to improve compressive strength of lightweight porcelinate concrete which usually have a low compressive strength about 17 MPa . The effect of metakaolin on compressive, splitting tensile, flexure strengths and modulus of elasticity of lightweight porcelinate concrete have been investigated. Many experiments were carried out by replacing cement with different percentages of metakaolin. The metakaolin was replaced by 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%. A control reference mix without metakaolin was made for comparison purpose. For all mixes, compressive, splitting tensile, flexure strengths and modulus of elasticity were determined at 28-day. The results showed that the using of metakaolin improve the compressive, splitting tensile, flexure strengths and modulus of elasticity of lightweight porcelinate concrete. The higher compressive, splitting tensile, flexure strengths and modulus of elasticity were found for 15% metakaolin.

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In this research, a study has been made on the effect of high fractional volume of replacement Metakaolin that results from grinding and burning the local kaolin from (Doeakhla zone / west of Baghdad / Iraq) with fineness of 18000 cm2/gm., and with temperature 700°C for one hour, on some properties of concrete (compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, flexural strength, modulus of elasticity, density,absorption and drying shrinkage). Also, non-destructive tests have been made (Schmidt rebound hummer and Ultrasonic pulse velocity). In this study, ten concrete mixes have been used in two Groups to get a compressive strength 40 N/mm2 at 28 days. In Group A, the percentage replace of Metakaolin have been changed from (0-70) % by weight of cement with percent increment equal to 10% for each mix, andchange the maximum size of aggregates to determine the effect of changing the surface area of aggregate as variable on the properties of concrete-containing Metakaolin, The tests for all mixes were made at ages ranged from 1 day to 90 days after mixing and replacement a dosage of superplasticizer by water content of the mix to make a constant workability with slump 50±5mm. The aim of this research is tofind a type of concrete that can be used in dams as one of the types of mass concrete, concluded from this research that replacing 70% Metakaolin instead of cement mixing the compressive strength aged 90 days less than the 63%, splitting strength at 28 days less than 27%, flexural strength at 28 days less than about 27%, the modulusof elasticity at 28 days less than 54%, density of less than about 8% at 28 days, the absorption rate increases about 27% and drying shrinkage 1.65 * 10-4 at 60 days when compared all these tests with the reference concrete.

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