The effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete

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Main Authors: Ali Basheer, Azeez, Kahtan Sadiq, Muhammed, Dr., Mohd Mustafa Al-Bakri, Abdullah, Kamarudin, Hussin, Brig. Jen. Dato' Prof. Dr., Sandu, Andrei Victor, Rafiza, Abdul Razak
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spelling my.unimap-327952014-03-17T07:56:11Z The effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete Ali Basheer, Azeez Kahtan Sadiq, Muhammed, Dr. Mohd Mustafa Al-Bakri, Abdullah Kamarudin, Hussin, Brig. Jen. Dato' Prof. Dr. Sandu, Andrei Victor Rafiza, Abdul Razak alibasheer2013@yahoo.com kahtan@unimap.edu.my mustafa_albakri@unimap.edu.my vc@unimap.edu.my sav@tuiasi.ro rafizarazak@unimap.edu.my Attenuation coefficient Concrete Radioactive Wastes iron particulates Link to publisher's homepage at http://www.mdpi.com/ Samples of concrete contain various waste materials, such as iron particulates, steel balls of used ball bearings and slags from steel industry were assessed for their anti-radiation attenuation coefficient properties. The attenuation measurements were performed using gamma spectrometer of NaI (Tl) detector. The utilized radiation sources comprised 137Cs and 60Co radioactive elements with photon energies of 0.662 MeV for 137Cs and two energy levels of 1.17 and 1.33 MeV for the 60Co. Likewise the mean free paths for the tested samples were obtained. The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of the waste loading rates and the particulate dispersive manner within the concrete matrix on the attenuation coefficients. The maximum linear attenuation coefficient (μ) was attained for concrete incorporates iron filling wastes of 30 wt %. They were of 1.12 ± 1.31×10-3 for 137Cs and 0.92 ± 1.57 × 10-3 for 60Co. Substantial improvement in attenuation performance by 20%-25% was achieved for concrete samples incorporate iron fillings as opposed to that of steel ball samples at different (5%-30%) loading rates. The steel balls and the steel slags gave much inferior values. The microstructure, concrete-metal composite density, the homogeneity and particulate dispersion were examined and evaluated using different metallographic, microscopic and measurement facilities. 2014-03-17T07:56:11Z 2014-03-17T07:56:11Z 2013 Article Materials, vol. 6(10), 2013, pages 4836-4846 1996-1944 http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/6/10/4836 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/dspace/handle/123456789/32795 en MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
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topic Attenuation coefficient
Concrete
Radioactive
Wastes iron particulates
spellingShingle Attenuation coefficient
Concrete
Radioactive
Wastes iron particulates
Ali Basheer, Azeez
Kahtan Sadiq, Muhammed, Dr.
Mohd Mustafa Al-Bakri, Abdullah
Kamarudin, Hussin, Brig. Jen. Dato' Prof. Dr.
Sandu, Andrei Victor
Rafiza, Abdul Razak
The effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete
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Ali Basheer, Azeez
Kahtan Sadiq, Muhammed, Dr.
Mohd Mustafa Al-Bakri, Abdullah
Kamarudin, Hussin, Brig. Jen. Dato' Prof. Dr.
Sandu, Andrei Victor
Rafiza, Abdul Razak
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author Ali Basheer, Azeez
Kahtan Sadiq, Muhammed, Dr.
Mohd Mustafa Al-Bakri, Abdullah
Kamarudin, Hussin, Brig. Jen. Dato' Prof. Dr.
Sandu, Andrei Victor
Rafiza, Abdul Razak
author_sort Ali Basheer, Azeez
title The effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete
title_short The effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete
title_full The effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete
title_fullStr The effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete
title_full_unstemmed The effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete
title_sort effect of various waste materials' contents on the attenuation level of anti-radiation shielding concrete
publisher MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
publishDate 2014
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/dspace/handle/123456789/32795
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