Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Concrete and mortar polymer have been developed to gain high strength and durability.Instead of chemical polymer, organics polymer is widely used as material innovation.This research aims to investigate the performance as well as its compressive strength of carbohydrates polymer for multi-purposes mortar with amylum powder and honey to be used for multi-purpose mortar.There were 285 cubes of mortar specimens 50 x 50 x 50 mm with basic composition weight ratio of cement : sand : water = 1 : 1 : 0.6 with addition of amylum powder and honey tested for compressive strength.The result found optimum composition of specimen series is KT-M-0-G which contains honey 0.03% and amylum 0.1% of cement weight with compressive strength of 37.44 MPa.The comparison of compressive strength of mortar in current investigation to the previous researches as reference has shown higher compressive strength of specimen series without honey but very low compressive strength to specimen series with honey.This research confirms that mortar with carbohydrates polymer can be used for multi-purpose mortar because it has high performance of strength and durability.
Institution: Soegijapranata Catholic University
Language: English
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3094534841