| dc.description.abstract | The development of ferrocement sandwich prefabricated structural element now day has
grown in the construction industry were due to the specific characteristic needed,
lightweight to ratio strength, saving material cost and more thin than conventional wall.
Ferrocement construction made up with a thin sheet of high performance material as the
concrete cover at outside or wall face and low strength material as core. Core usually uses material that specific characteristic needed other than strength. This study focus on
development of ferrocement sandwich panel for Industrialized Building Systems(IBS),
where foam concrete as a core with wire mesh reinforced and thin ferrocement encasement. The study was separated in two phases. The first phase involves the development of slag
cement based mortar mix workability and high performance coatings to be encasement of
concrete foam. Mortar performance is examined in terms of compressive strength, the effect
of curing regime, the unit weight and the effect of partial replacement of foam concrete.
The second phase involved the development and investigation of the characteristicfoam
concrete of ferrocement sandwich panel. For this purpose, several samples have been
produces based on the ratio of its reinforced and different foam-slag ratio. Encasement core
has been choose and maintain 25mm in this phase.The parameters studied werecompressive
strength, the weight of the unit and the role of the effects of the mesh used for ferrocement .
In this study,it was found concrete sandwich method in the manufacture of lightweight
structures have the potential severance and thus can be applied in the implementation of an
industrialized building system. The addition of the mesh will increase the compressive
strength, but the results are not directly proportional. Therefore, the use of mesh should be
kept to a minimum and endeavor to the compressive strength. The use of foamed concrete walls can reduce the weight of the overall layered sandwich, which is also directly
proportional to the ratio of the weight of the foam panel. However, the use of high foam
reduces the compressive strength of concrete. Use ferrocement able to increase core
strength with the low strength. | en_US |
