PMID- 37332804
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230620
IS  - 2470-1343 (Electronic)
IS  - 2470-1343 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 23
DP  - 2023 Jun 13
TI  - Unsaturated Polyester Resin Filled with Cementitious Materials: A Comprehensive 
      Study of Filler Loading Impact on Mechanical Properties, Microstructure, and 
      Water Absorption.
PG  - 20389-20403
LID - 10.1021/acsomega.3c00353 [doi]
AB  - In recent years, cheaply available cementitious materials (CMs) are increasingly 
      finding useful applications in construction engineering. This manuscript focused 
      on the development and fabrication of unsaturated polyester resin 
      (UPR)/cementitious material composites to be potentially useful in a variety of 
      construction applications. For this purpose, five types of powders from widely 
      available fillers, i.e., black cement (BC), white cement (WC), plaster of Paris 
      (POP), sand (S), and pit sand (PS), were used. Cement polymer composite (CPC) 
      specimens were prepared by a conventional casting process with various filler 
      contents of 10, 20, 30, and 40 wt %. Neat UPR and CPCs were investigated 
      mechanically by testing their tensile, flexural, compressive, and impact 
      properties. Electron microscopy analysis was used to analyze the relation between 
      the microstructure and mechanical properties of CPCs. The assessment of water 
      absorption was conducted. The highest tensile, flexural, compressive upper yield, 
      and impact strength values were recorded for POP/UPR-10, WC/UPR-10, WC/UPR-40, 
      and POP/UPR-20, respectively. The highest percentages of water absorption were 
      found to be 6.202 and 5.07% for UPR/BC-10 and UPR/BC-20, while the lowest 
      percentages were found to be 1.76 and 1.84% for UPR/S-10 and UPR/S-20, 
      respectively. Based on the finding of this study, the properties of CPCs were 
      found to depend on not only the filler content but also the distribution, 
      particle size, and combination between the filler and the polymer.
CI  - (c) 2023 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.
FAU - Al-Mufti, Salah M S
AU  - Al-Mufti SMS
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9084-8897
AD  - Department of Petroleum Studies, Z. H. College of Engineering & Technology, 
      Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India.
FAU - Almontasser, Asma
AU  - Almontasser A
AD  - Department of Applied Physics, Z. H. College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh 
      Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India.
FAU - Rizvi, Syed J A
AU  - Rizvi SJA
AD  - Department of Petroleum Studies, Z. H. College of Engineering & Technology, 
      Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230530
PL  - United States
TA  - ACS Omega
JT  - ACS omega
JID - 101691658
PMC - PMC10268611
COIS- The authors declare no competing financial interest.
EDAT- 2023/06/19 06:41
MHDA- 2023/06/19 06:42
PMCR- 2023/05/30
CRDT- 2023/06/19 02:41
PHST- 2023/01/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/05/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/06/19 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/06/19 06:41 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/06/19 02:41 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/05/30 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1021/acsomega.3c00353 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - ACS Omega. 2023 May 30;8(23):20389-20403. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.3c00353. 
      eCollection 2023 Jun 13.