There are various types of industrial fibers such as: (polypropylene fiber, fiberglass, silica fume powder, etc..). These fibers are used widely as additives for improving concrete strength. We study in our research the effect of each of polypropylen
e fibers, steel fibers, and silica fume powder, on two kinds of concrete mix the first ordinary mix and the second is mix other with Mazar sand. We found after the studying of mechanical properties for those mixes that a slight improvement on tensile strength of concrete has
occurred, an increasing of compression strength of concrete has happened, and the failure style has changed according to the type of additive compared with concrete without additive.
This research includes an experimental study for the manufacture of
a composite material based on polymer (unsaturated polyester),
reinforced with random fiberglass at different weight fractions. By
suite, it has been studied some mechanical prope
rties of the models
manufactured, to determine the effect of glass fiber content on the
tensile strength, hardness and impact resistance. This study has
shown that the best results were for samples reinforced by 40%
fiberglass, where the tensile strength increased about 70%, hardness
up to 30%, and impact resistance about 43%. It will be observed
that the mechanical properties decrease clearly at 60% of weight
fraction of fiberglass. This fact can be related to the quantity of
unsaturated polyester become inadequate for recharge of the fibers,
which leads to weakness in the forces bonding in composite
materials.
This study includes an experimental work to determine the effect of ultraviolet radiation (uv-rays) on the mechanical behavior of the conveyor rubber vulcanizing, which used in various transport operations, and in the cement plant Tartus. In this wor
k, it has been prepared different samples of belts, and they were exposed to uv radiation at differente times, then they were tested to know its wear and tensile strength.
The results were compared with samples similar to the samples tested, which was not exposed to the rays of UV, and with other samples exposed to temperatures, and that in order to reach the ideal conditions for the use of these belts, which ensures longer period of use and safe conditions. This study showed that uv-rays increase the average of wear and the tensile strength of belts.
A synthetic fibre from polyolefins wastes was obtained as follow:
1. From polyethylene and polypropylene wastes in various
percentages to get the optimum percentage in the fibre
2.From polyethylene and polypropylene gralunar.
We used an indirect
recycling operation using extrusion by the
extruder.
The obtained fibre was tested mechanically, physically and
chemically and the results demonstrate that the production of these
fibers are available laboratorially and industrially.
In this research the effect of Nickel addition by various
percentages on the mechanical properties of
Aluminum-Copper alloy was studied. After
adding Nickel the alloys was artificially aged for different
times, and the effect of Nickel on
the re
sponse of alloy to precipitation hardening was studied.
Where the effect of Nickel on the microscope structure was
studied, and on the mechanical properties as hardness, tensile
strength, yield strength and elongation. The results showed that
the increase of Nickel improve this properties, where the highest
values were obtained when the Nickel's percentage was 5% Wt.
The paper presents some of the results from a large experimental program undertakenat the Department of Civil Engineering of Damascus University. The project aims to study the ability to reinforce and strengthen the concrete by bars from Epoxy polymer reinforced with glass fibers (GFRP) and compared with reinforce concrete by steel bars in terms of mechanical properties.
The present research aims at preparing and characterizing different formulations of SBR1712 rubber with different loading amounts of two inorganic fillers: conventional N330 carbon black, new nanometric aerosil 200 fumed silica and local micrometric volcanic tuff.
