caa a22 4500 463234626 CHVBK 20180405153253.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10853-006-1091-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10853-006-1091-7 Novel syntactic foams made of ceramic hollow micro-spheres and starch: theory, structure and properties [Elektronische Daten] [Md Islam, Ho Kim] Novel syntactic foams for potential building material applications were developed using starch as binder and ceramic hollow micro-spheres available as waste from coal-fire power stations. Foams of four different micro-sphere size groups were manufactured with either pre- or post-mould gelatinization process. They were of ternary system including voids with a foam density range of approximately 0.33-0.44g/cc. Compressive failure behaviour and mechanical properties of the manufactured foams were evaluated. Not much difference in failure behaviour or in mechanical properties between the two different processes (pre- and post-mould gels) was found for a given binder content. Compressive failure of all syntactic foams was of shear on plane inclined 45° to compressive loading direction. Failure surfaces of most syntactic foams were characterized by debonded micro-spheres. Compressive strength and modulus of syntactic foams were found to be dependant mainly on binder content but mostly independent of micro-sphere size. Some conditions of relativity arising from properties of constituents leading to the rule of mixtures relationships for compressive strength and to understanding of compressive/transitional failure behaviour were developed. The developed relationships based on the rule of mixtures were partially verified. Some formation of starch webs on failure surfaces was discussed. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Islam Md Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, 2308, Callaghan, NSW, Australia aut Kim Ho Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, 2308, Callaghan, NSW, Australia aut Journal of Materials Science Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/15(2007-08-01), 6123-6132 0022-2461 42:15<6123 2007 42 10853 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-1091-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-006-1091-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Islam Md Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, 2308, Callaghan, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kim Ho Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, 2308, Callaghan, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Materials Science Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/15(2007-08-01), 6123-6132 0022-2461 42:15<6123 2007 42 10853 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer