Pengaruh Penambahan Lem Putih Poly Vinyl Acetate (Pvac) Terhadap Perilaku Fisik Dan Mekanik Pada Mortar 1 Semen : 5 Pasir

This research is conducted to study the physical and mechanical characteristic of mortar. The mortar used has a cement-sand volume ratio of 1 : 5. Then, PVAc White Glue is added to this mixture with various percentages of 0. 3.0, 6.0, 9.0, 12.0, and 15.0 percent of cement weight. The water-cement ratio decreased as the increase of white glue PVAc percentage. The maximum and minimum water-cement ratio value of 1.12 and 0.717 were obtained respectively on the samples with 0% and 15.0% PVAc. The average decreasing of water-cement ratio was 0.081 on every 3.0% addition of PVAc. The addition of white glue resulted a production of air void and caused agglomeration on mortar and the mortar became elastic, thus it reduced the ease of compacting the mortar mixture. The characteristic of the mortar that was hard to be compacted and the compaction that was done manually resulted in the unevenness unstandardized level of compactness. The results indicated a varied of fluctuating value with low confidence level, thus the tendency and the influence of the PVAc addition were hard to be determined. From the test on the normal condition (N), the characteristics were hard to be determined were the decrease of unit weight with R2 = 0.203; the increase of compressive strength with R2 = 0.058; the increase of splitting tensile strength with R2 = 0.145; the decrease of bonding strength with R2 = 0.007, the decrease of surface abrasion resistance with R2 = 0.0001, and the decrease of 10-minutes water uptake with R2 = 0.185. While, the other characteristics of normal condition samples (N) with better confidence value were the decrease of flexural strength with R2 = 0.651; the modulus of elasticity with R2 = 0.61; and the decrease of 24-hours water uptake with R2 = 0.574. The mortar was difficult to be compacted, and a nonstandard compaction method were suspected to caused of unsatisfactory result of this research