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The behaviour of plain and reinforced geopolymer concrete under static compressive, static tensile, static flexural and cyclic flexural load was investigated by means of laboratory tests. For the comparison of test results, similar type of tests were performed on Portland cement concrete, polymer Portland cement concrete and latex modified concrete. It was observed that geopolymer concrete exhibited better properties than Portland cement concrete and latex modified concrete when tested under static load and cyclic load. However, Polymer Portland cement concrete exhibited similar properties under static load but inferior properties under cyclic load than geopolymer concrete. Performance of latex modified concrete was inferior compared to the others under both static and dynamic loads.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the research fund provided by Ministry of Human Resource Development, India through TEQIP-II. The materials and equipment support provided by National Institute of Technology Silchar, India is also acknowledged by the authors.
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Laskar, S.M., Mozumder, R.A., Roy, B. (2015). Behaviour of Geopolymer Concrete Under Static and Cyclic Loads. In: Matsagar, V. (eds) Advances in Structural Engineering. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2187-6_125
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