PALMOCRETE

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- Environmental and sustainable benefit:- by using the palm stalks which is unused material produced from pruning the palm in reinforcing slabs and beams of buildings instead of leaving it in the environment increasing the hazard of fires.

- Arab countries own 100 million palm tree, producing 965 thousand tons of stalks (Each palm tree give share with 15 to 20 stalks) every year as a result of pruning which is an essential process for healthy palm trees. Business vision:-

- Developing the cycle of constructions due to high number of construction.
- Increasing the income of work force.
- Increasing the income of Entrepreneurs.
- Increasing the income of investors.
- Developing desert areas to be used in villages and workshops for useful projects. It should be white and any dark spots should mean that the stalk is infected.

- Stalks with long faint yellow lines should be avoided. This may be due to infection.

- Dry leaflets shouldn’t be used at all as they turn into powder.

- Preparation is done by removing leaflets from stalks, to turn to the coating process with resin compound.






- palm stalks can replace steel reinforcement providing from 75 – 80% of steel strength , and its approved also as previously discussed the durability of stalks in concrete and its stability within acids and alkaline.


- Thermal studies were made on this building technique and he approved that temperature decreases by 12 Celsius inside of the building compared to the surrounding environment in the summer , and increases by 12 Celsius inside of the building compared to the surrounding environment in the winter. This means that this building technique is suitable for all environments specially dessert.

- it was approved that stalks have ductility much greater than steel, that in case of earthquakes Stalks will have greater resistance and stresses effects and strains will disappear after 30 minutes and stalks return to its initial state. That’s a great benefit.

- The addition of stalks to plain concrete has converted the sudden brittle failure in tension into a gradual and more ductile one even more than steel

- Professor Moustafa Gouda proved that those stalks were used in foundations in Japan for earthquake resistance