PMID- 35009436
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220114
IS  - 1996-1944 (Print)
IS  - 1996-1944 (Electronic)
IS  - 1996-1944 (Linking)
VI  - 15
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Dec 31
TI  - Performance Evaluation of Cementitious Composites Incorporating Nano Graphite 
      Platelets as Additive Carbon Material.
LID - 10.3390/ma15010290 [doi]
LID - 290
AB  - Nano graphite platelets (NGPs) belong to the carbon family and have a huge impact 
      on the construction industry. NGPs are used as multi-functional fillers and have 
      the potential to develop reinforcing within cementitious composites. In this 
      paper, NGPs were incorporated in cementitious composites to investigate the 
      effects of NGPs on the fresh, mechanical, durability, and microstructural 
      properties of concrete. Five mixes were prepared with intrusion of NGPs (0%, 
      0.5%, 1.5%, 3%, and 5% by weight of cement). The properties studied involved 
      workability, air content, hardened density, compressive strength, tensile 
      strength, flexural strength, sorptivity, ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV), water 
      absorption, and external sulfate attack. The workability and percent air content 
      decrease by 22.5% and 33.8%, respectively, for concrete with 5% NGPs compared to 
      the control mix. The specimens containing 5% of NGPs revealed the hardened 
      density, compressive, tensile, and flexural strength to increase by 11.4%, 38.5%, 
      31.6%, and 44.34%, respectively, compared to the control mix. The results 
      revealed that the incorporation of 5%NGPs in cementitious composites reduces the 
      sorptivity and water absorption by 32.2% and 73.9%, respectively, whereas, it 
      increases the UPV value by 7.5% compared to the control mix. Furthermore, the 
      incorporation of NGPs provided better resistance against external sulfate 
      attacks. SEM-EDX spectroscopy was carried out to investigate its microstructural 
      analysis.
FAU - Ahmad, Farhan
AU  - Ahmad F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2059-3830
AD  - Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, National 
      University of Modern Languages, Rawalpindi 44000, Pakistan.
FAU - Jamal, Arshad
AU  - Jamal A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7284-7348
AD  - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Design and Built 
      Environment, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi 
      Arabia.
AD  - Interdisciplinary Research Center of Smart Mobility and Logistics (IRC-SML), King 
      Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Iqbal, Mudassir
AU  - Iqbal M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4317-3978
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Digital 
      Maintenance of Buildings and Infrastructure, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean 
      and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
AD  - Civil Engineering Department, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar 
      25120, Pakistan.
FAU - Alqurashi, Muwaffaq
AU  - Alqurashi M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9883-8869
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University, P.O. 
      Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Almoshaogeh, Meshal
AU  - Almoshaogeh M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1158-8324
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Qassim University, 
      Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Al-Ahmadi, Hassan M
AU  - Al-Ahmadi HM
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5664-1112
AD  - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Design and Built 
      Environment, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi 
      Arabia.
FAU - E Hussein, Enas
AU  - E Hussein E
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8943-2154
AD  - National Water Research Center, P.O. Box 74, Shubra El-Kheima 13411, Egypt.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211231
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Materials (Basel)
JT  - Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101555929
PMC - PMC8746208
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - cementitious composites durability properties
OT  - concrete
OT  - mechanical properties
OT  - nano graphite platelets
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2022/01/12 06:00
MHDA- 2022/01/12 06:01
PMCR- 2021/12/31
CRDT- 2022/01/11 01:06
PHST- 2021/12/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/12/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/12/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/01/11 01:06 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/01/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/01/12 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/12/31 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ma15010290 [pii]
AID - materials-15-00290 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ma15010290 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Materials (Basel). 2021 Dec 31;15(1):290. doi: 10.3390/ma15010290.