Author(s)

Adelaïde Lareba Ouédraogo¹, Sayouba Kabré², Etienne Malbila^1,3, Abdoulaye Compaoré¹, Ramatou Saré¹, Paul Ilboudo¹, Sié Kam¹, Bruno Korgo¹, Dieudonné Joseph Bathiebo¹, Florent P. Kieno¹, Philippe Blanchard⁴

¹Département de Physique, Laboratoire d’Energies Thermiques Renouvelables (LETRE), Faculté des Sciences Exactes et Appliquées (UFR/SEA), Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Technologies, Université Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
²Département de Physique, Laboratoire des Matériaux et Environnement (LAME), Faculté des Sciences Exactes et Appliquées (UFR/SEA), Ecole Doctorale Sciences et Technologies, Université de Ouagadougou, Joseph KI-ZERBO, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
³Département de Physique, Université de Fada N’Gourma, Fada, Burkina Faso.
⁴Département de Physique, Chimie, Institut de Recherche sur les Céramiques (IRCER), Limoge, France.

Living in a habitat with comfort is requested by all. Cinder block bricks have poor thermal properties, leading people to use fan heaters and air conditioners to regain comfort. To overcome this problem of thermal discomfort in buildings, we used lightweight concrete such as foamed concrete which is a material that has improved thermal properties for thermal comfort. In addition, this material was compared with local materials used for the construction of buildings such as BTC, adobe and BLT mixed with binders. The results showed that foamed concrete is a material that has good thermal and mechanical properties compared to local materials mixed with binders. The foamed concrete having acceptable thermo-mechanical properties was that having a density of 930 kg/m³. It has a thermal resistance of 0.4 m²·K/W for a thickness of 20 cm. The foamed concrete having acceptable thermo-mechanical properties was that having a density of 930 kg/m³. It has a thermal resistance of 0.4 m²·K/W for a thickness of 20 cm. For sunshine on a daily cycle equal to 12 hours, the characteristic thickness achieved by this material is 7.29 cm. It also has a shallow depth of heat diffusion having a lower thickness than other materials. This shows that foamed concrete is a promising material for the construction of buildings.

Foamed Concrete, Thermo-Mechanical Properties, Comparison, Local Materi-als

Ouédraogo, A. , Kabré, S. , Malbila, E. , Compaoré, A. , Saré, R. , Ilboudo, P. , Kam, S. , Korgo, B. , Bathiebo, D. , Kieno, F. and Blanchard, P. (2022) Comparative Study of the Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Foamed Concrete with Local Materials. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 10, 550-564. doi: 10.4236/wjet.2022.103035.