The influence of dimension and content of natural organic fibrous materials on the multi-performance of cement-based composites: A statistical approach

This paper provides an exhaustive data gathering, based on the incorporation of fibrous materials from natural organic sources into cement-based composites. Through a statistical approach, multi-performance aspects such as density, compressive strength, and thermal conductivity, were studied as a function of fibrous materials dimensions (nano to macro-scales), and volume fractions. The results show that the incorporation characteristics of fibrous materials can decrease density and thermal conductivity but can also increase the compressive strength of those composites. Thus, it was possible to obtain application ranges for the dimensions and volume fractions, that can help to formulate new multi-performance cementitious composites. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.