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Abstract
This research presented the structural characteristics of lightweight ferrocement walls with various types of core materials and mesh reinforcement. Specimens were reinforced with expanded metal mesh, welded wire mesh and tenax SS30 mesh. Ten specimens having cross-sectional dimensions of (80cm ×10cm) and height of 100 cm were cast and tested under compression load until failure. Structural behavior of studied walls in terms of; first crack load, ultimate load, service load ,ductility ratio
and energy absorption were investigated in addition to crack pattern and mode of
failure for all tested specimens. This study revealed that the ultimate load for control specimen was more than the ultimate load for the specimens that reinforced with one, two, three and four layers of welded wire mesh by 66 %, 37.3 %, 17.6% and 2.4% respectively and the ultimate load for specimen that reinforced with four layers of welded wire mesh was more than specimens reinforced with one, two and three
layers of welded wire mesh by 62% , 34.1 % and 14.8 % respectively. The ultimate
load for control specimen was more than the ultimate load for the specimens that
reinforced with one and two layers of expanded steel mesh by 39.7 % and 22.9 %
respectively and the ultimate load for specimen that reinforced with two layers of expanded steel mesh was more than specimen that reinforced with one layer of expanded steel mesh by 13.7 %. The ultimate load for control specimen was more than the ultimate load for the specimens that reinforced with one, two and three layers of tenax mesh by 41.8 %, 32 % and 28.7 % respectively and the ultimate load for specimen that reinforced with with three layers of tenax mesh was more than specimens that reinforced with one and two layers of tenax mesh by 10.1 % and 2.5 % respectively. The maximum ductility ratio was for specimen that reinforced
with three layers of tenax mesh and the minimum ductility ratio was for control
specimen and the percentage of increasing is 97.4%. Theoretical study was conducted by finite element software (ABAQUS) to evaluate the experimental results. Theoretical study has a good agreement with the experimental results.