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Development of Vegetable Fibre-Mortar Composites of Improved Durability

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Vegetable Fiber Composites and their Technological Applications

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Vegetable fiber is fast becoming an essential material in cement based construction with slow but steady adoption in several countries for different application. This chapter focuses on the importance of vegetable fiber for cement composite reinforcement with emphasis being placed on the renewability and sustainability prospects. Effort was also made to outline the various challenges it faces most especially in terms of long term durability performance in alkaline medium and the possible solutions to these problems were similarly discussed in details.

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  1. Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Structures and Building Materials Unit, Omuaran, Kwara, Nigeria

    Banjo A. Akinyemi

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Landmark University Omuaran, Omuaran, Kwara, Nigeria

    Daniel O. Oguntayo

  3. Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University , Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Anish Khan

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  1. Laboratory of Biocomposite Technology, INTROP, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Mohammad Jawaid

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    Anish Khan

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Akinyemi, B.A., Oguntayo, D.O., Khan, A. (2021). Development of Vegetable Fibre-Mortar Composites of Improved Durability. In: Jawaid, M., Khan, A. (eds) Vegetable Fiber Composites and their Technological Applications. Composites Science and Technology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1854-3_18

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