Development of Advanced Cement-Based Building Products

In this study, short fiber-reinforced cement-based building products of sheets, pipes and honeycomb panels incorporating various mineral admixtures such as slag, silica fume, and metakaolin have been developed by the extrusion technique. The experimental works have shown that these products do have very good mechanical properties. Since the key point for a successful extrusion is the properly designed rheology which controls both internal and external flow properties of ext rudate, a nonlinear viscoelastic model was applied to investigate the rheology behavior of a movable fresh cementitious composite in a single screw extruder channel. The theoretical analysis is used to guide the practical manufacturing.……