Abstract

Polymer concretehave been made based sand, pumice, epoxy resin, and singkut leaf fiber as fillers. The manufacture of polymer concrete uses block-shaped molds with a size of 100 mm x 20 mm x 10 mm with the press molding method using a hotpress. Variations in the composition polymer concrete of sand, pumice stone, singkut leaf fiber, and epoxy resin, namely 60:20:0:20 g, 60:18:2:20 g, 60:16:4:20 g, 60:14:6:20 g, 60:12:8:20 g, and 60:10:10:20 g. The variation in the composition was made into 2 groups of variations based on the concentration of NaOH used to singkut the leaves, namely the leaves with immersion of 5% NaOH and 13% NaOH. The polymer concrete then characterizes its physical properties (density and water absorption), mechanical properties (flexural strength, compressive strength, tensile strength), and SEM-EDX. The results of characterization carried out on concrete samples, show that the best composition is (60:18:2:20) g (5% NaOH content) with a density value of 1.74 g/cm3, water absorption of 0.34%, flexural strength. amounted to 37.07 MPa, compressive strength of 60.18 MPa, tensile strength of 8.33 MPa. The results of microstructure testing showed that the polymer concrete samples with a mixture of sand, pumice, epoxy resin, and singkut leaf fiber were mostly dominated by the element C (carbon).

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