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27 March 2025

Correction: Futami et al. Recent Progress in the Application of Coconut and Palm Oil Fibres in Cement-Based Materials. Sustainability 2021, 13, 12865

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Centre for Building, Construction & Tropical Architecture (BuCTA), Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
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Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, Kajang 43000, Malaysia
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Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia
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The authors would like to make the following corrections to the published paper [1]:
(1)
Replacing Reference [43]:
  • Dawood, E.T.; Ramli, M. Properties of High-Strength Flowable Mortar Reinforced with Palm Fibers. ISRN Civ. Eng. 2012, 2012, 718549.
  • with
  • Raut, A.N.; Gomez, C.P. Thermal and mechanical performance of oil palm fiber reinforced mortar utilizing palm oil fly ash as a complementary binder. Constr. Build. Mater. 2016, 126, 476–483.
(2)
Replacing the sentence in the second paragraph of Section 2.2:
  • According to Ahmad and Mohd Noor [44] and Dawood and Ramli [43], the size of palm oil fibres was within 0.021–0.7 mm with a length ranging from 30 to 40 mm, the density was 0.7–1.51 g/cm3 [23], and the modulus of elasticity was 2500 MPa [25] to 32,000 MPa [45].
  • with
  • According to Ahmad and Mohd Noor [44] and Raut and Gomez [43], the size of palm oil fibres was within 0.021–0.7 mm with a length ranging from 30 to 40 mm, the density was 0.7–1.51 g/cm3 [23], and the modulus of elasticity was 2500 MPa [25] to 32,000 MPa [45].
(3)
Replacing the sentence in the second paragraph of Section 2.2:
  • Abdullah et al. [46] reported that the tensile strength of this fibre was 300–600 MPa, whilst Dawood and Ramli [43] reported that it was 21.2 MPa.
  • with
  • Abdullah et al. [46] reported that the tensile strength of this fibre was 300–600 MPa, whilst Raut and Gomez [43] reported that it was 21.2 MPa.
(4)
Replacing the sentence in the fourth paragraph of Section 5.2.2:
  • Dawood and Ramli [43] reported that the increase in the mechanical properties of cement mortar was due to the inclusion of palm oil fibre in certain percentages.
  • with
  • Raut and Gomez [43] reported that the increase in the mechanical properties of cement mortar was due to the inclusion of palm oil fibre in certain percentages.
(5)
Changing the caption of Figure 6a:
  • (a) Surface
  • to
  • (a) lateral section
The authors state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. The corrections were approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated.

Reference

  1. Futami, E.; Shafigh, P.; Katman, H.Y.B.; Ibrahim, Z. Recent Progress in the Application of Coconut and Palm Oil Fibres in Cement-Based Materials. Sustainability 2021, 13, 12865. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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