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Concrete-polymer composites were prepared by impregnating sand-cement mortar with polymethylmethacrylate, polystyrene and polyacrylonitrile as well as copolymers of styrene-methylmethacrylate, styrene-acrylonitrile, styrene-butyl methacrylate, styrene-butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate-butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate-ethyl acrylate, styrene-acrylontrile crosslinked with divinyl benzene, and polystyrene crosslinked with divinyl benzene. Mechanical properties such as compressive strength, flexural strength and in some cases strength of transverse rupture were studied with these polymer and copolymer impregnated concrete. The effects of water/cement ratio, sand/cement ratio, curing temperature and time, polymer loading, and nature of polymer on the compressive and flexural strengths of control concrete and polymer impregnated concrete were studied. For copolymer impregnated concrete the effects of copolymer composition and nature of comonomer pairs on the strength properties of the composite were also investigated.
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Maiti, S., Kirtania, K.R. Polymer impregnated concrete. J Mater Sci 21, 335–340 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01144741
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