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040			_aUniversiti Teknologi Brunei _beng _cUTB
084			_aUTB 120 REPORT, THESIS & DISSERTATION _aRTDS 128
100	1		_aNurul Nabilah bte Haji Abdul Rahman _eAuthor
245	1	0	_aThermal Conductive of Bamboo and Sugarcane Fibre Cement Composites / _cNurul Nabilah bte Haji Abdul Rahman
260			_aBrunei Darussalam : _bUniversiti Teknologi Brunei, _c© 2017.
300			_aix, 52 Pages : _bPhotographs, illustrations ; _c30 cm.
500			_aA thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the Mechanical Engineering Programme Area of University Teknologi Brunei
500			_aAbstract The fibers that have been extracted from bamboo and sugarcane plants were mixed with Portland cement and water to produce fiber-reinforced cement composite cylinders. A pure cement cylinder without the inclusion of any fiber was prepared as a control sample. To investigate the effect of the treatment of the fibers, some of the fibers are mechanically treated and some are left untreated. Bamboo reinforced cement composite cylinders are then produced with different loading by weight of both treated and untreated fibers. The scope of this project includes lab experiments on samples of bamboo and sugarcane fiber-reinforced cement composites placed on a hot plate. The variation of temperature at different points of the samples are recorded until steady-state was achieved. The temperature difference from the readings was then used to calculate the thermal conductivity of the composites. This investigation allowed the correlation between the thermal conductivity and the fiber loading of the cement composite to be made. The effect of treatment of fibers on the thermal conductivity of the cement composite was also studied. Increasing the load has a negative effect on the thermal conductivity of the treated and untreated fiber composite, whereas the mechanical treatment of the fiber enhanced the thermal conductivity value of the sugarcane fiber cement composite. Although the same effect of fiber loading was observed for the as-received bamboo fiber composite, the fiber loading effect has the opposite effect towards the treated fiber composites where the thermal conductivity increases as the fiber loading increases. Furthermore, instead of enhancing the thermal conductivity of the composite, the treatment has the contradictory effect of lowering the composites' thermal conductivity in comparison to the as-received.
504			_aIncludes bibliography references.
610		4	_aUniversiti Teknologi Brunei _vProject report
650		4	_aFiber _xreinforced concrete _xThermal properties.
650		4	_aBamboo fibers.
650		4	_aSugarcane _xBy-products.
650		4	_aComposite materials _xThermal properties.
650		4	_aDissertations, Academic.
700	1		_cProfessor Dr. _aZuruzi Abu Samah _eSupervisor
942			_2lc _n0 _cRTDS
998			_eReport, Thesis & Dissertation _s904879 : 002403 c. 1_UTB _xUniversiti Teknologi Brunei
998			_eCD-ROM _s850410 : CD No. RTDS CD 59 UTB _xUniversiti Teknologi Brunei
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