Lightweight Building Materials of Geopolymer Reinforced Wood Particles Aggregate – A Review

Abstract

Lightweight constructions materials provide better thermal insulations properties for buildings. Using lightweight’s aggregates, such like wood particles is one of the most common ways for making lightweight building materials. The low cost and availability of wood particles made it the best ultimate materials preference in production of composites construction materials. Geopolymer, the alkali-activation cement-based materials have been proven can be used to produce lightweight materials. In additional, geopolymer possess excellent mechanical properties and significant reduction in CO2 emissions compare to ordinary Portland cement. The use of environmentally friendly building construction materials has become increasingly important. This paper presents a review on producing lightweight building materials from geopolymer with wood particles as an aggregate.