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Download full-text PDF. Properties of Papercrete Concrete: Building Material. Properties of Papercrete Concrete: Building Materia l. Shermale 1, Dr. Download PDF Info Publication number. Some exemplary papercrete formulations for building components and materials will now be discussed and compared.
The constant developmental activities in civil engineering and growing industrial activities have created a continuous demand for building materials which satisfy all the stringent requirements regarding the short-term and long-term performance of the structure. As the structures of tomorrow become taller and more complex, the materials of construction will be required to meet more demanding standards of performance than those in force today (Fuller 2006).
India’s present housing shortage is estimated to be as high as 31 million according to census and out of these shortages 24 million units are in rural areas and 7 million units in urban areas. Such a large housing construction activities require a huge amount of money. Out of this total cost of housing construction, building materials contribute to about 70% of cost in developing countries like India. The increase in the popularity of using environmental friendly, low-cost and light weight construction materials in building industry has brought about the need to investigate how this can be achieved by benefiting the environment as well as maintaining the material requirements affirmed in the standards (Turgut Paki and Algin Halil Murat 2007). 2 In the construction industry, building technology is heading towards an entirely new era because of the usage of industrial wastes in various forms of building material production.
For instance, the use of waste rubber, glass powder, industrial waste fibres, wood sawdust wastes and limestone powder wastes in building mater ial production has received diligent attention o ver the past few years. This is quite understandable because it is slowly but increasingly being recognized that the economic progress in construction depends more on an intelligent use of materials and constant improvement of available mater ials. Papercrete is a material originally developed 80 years ago but it is only recently rediscovered. Papercrete is a fibrous cementitious compound comprising waste paper and Portland cement. These two components are blended with water to create a paper cement pulp, which can then be poured into a mould, allowed to dry and be utilized as a durable building material. It should be noted that papercrete is a relatively new concept with limited scope. Papercrete has three derivatives, namely fibrous concrete, padobe and fidobe.
The fibrous concrete is a mixture of paper, Portland cement and water. Dogovor podryada na vipolnenie visotnih rabot obrazec. There are no harmful by-products or excessive energy use in the production of papercrete. Padobe has no Portland cement. It is a mix of paper, water and earth with clay. Here clay is the binding material.
Instead of using the cement, earth is used in this type of brick. This earth should have clay content of more than 30%. With regular brick, if the clay content is too high the brick may crack while drying, but adding paper fiber to the earth mix strengthens the drying block.