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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Efficient Use of Graphene Oxide and Silica Fume in Cement-Based Composites.

Ahmad Abdullah, Mohamed Taha, Mohamed Rashwan, Mohamed Fahmy

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ahmad AbdullahCivil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Bisha, Bisha 61922, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2538-8120
Mohamed TahaCivil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
Mohamed RashwanCivil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
Mohamed FahmyCivil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut 71515, Egypt.
Assiut University · EGEgypt-Japan University of Science and Technology · EGUniversity of Bisha · SA

Funding

University of Bisha UB-13-1442
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Incorporation of graphene oxide (GO) and silica fume (SF) to cement composites enhances their mechanical properties if suitable proportional amounts of GO and SF are used. This study presents a simplified approach to determine experimentally the optimum GO and SF contents that should be added to the cementitious mixture to obtain a proper and stable dispersion of GO sheets within the cement matrix. Composite mortar specimens with different GO and SF contents were designed and tested under flexural and compression loading. The phase formation and the microstructure of selected samples were also investigated to give an in-depth interpretation of the test results. The main criterion to determine the GO and SF contents was the ultimate strength required of the GO-cement composite. It was found that there was a composite interaction between the SF and GO contents in the cementitious mixture, which an envelope surface could describe if all other mix design parameters are kept constant.

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cement compositesgraphene oxidemix designsilica fume

Identifiers

PMID34772067
PMCPMC8585176
OpenAlexW3211277191

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