Construction companies are booming both in urban and quickly developing cities
throughout the world. Besides, the manufacturers and researchers are trying to focus more …

Flax fiber has been used extensively in the production of textiles (eg, clothing, household
linens, and upholstery); however flax shives, as a by-product of the fiber extraction process …

EIn order to reduce formaldehyde emissions, an experimental investigation of lightweight
flax shives based particleboards, prepared using two different binders: bio-based lignin …

A critical obstacle to the design of polymer-cement composites is its relatively large contents
required for a significant improvement on concrete performances, which increased materials …

Biodegradable interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogels based on pre-vulcanized
natural rubber (NR) and cassava starch (St) using sulphur (S) and glutaraldehyde (GA) as …

Economically feasible and biodegradable lignin/pre-vulcanized natural rubber latex (pVLA)
bio-composite coating films for controlled-release fertilizer (CRF) were prepared by blending …

One of the biggest technological problems connected with the production of lightweight
concretes made of porous aggregates is their much higher water absorption, which may …

This work aims at providing a multi-scale model to estimate the effective properties of hemp
and lime concretes. The microstructures of such materials are characterized by a relatively …

The impregnation of lightweight aggregate (LWA) is an alternative method to its pre-
moistening, which is used to limit the loss of fresh concrete workability due to the …

This study reports the combined effects of fly ashes, hemp fibers, and shives on the strength
performance of modified mortars. Fly ashes are first processed using high-intensity …