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Indonesia is the 9th largest pineapple producer in the world with a production of 1.39 million tons per year. this makes the pineapple leaf fiber (PALF) waste available abundantly in Indonesia. Palf waste has not been widely used in Indonesia. palf is usually used as fabric for textiles or yarn to be used as clothes and as handicrafts. palf has excellent mechanical properties and is environmentally friendly. in this study palf is used as a material for construction. Adding fiber to the concrete mixture is one way to minimize cracks in the concrete. This study aims to increase the compressive strength, tensile strength of concrete and utilize palf potential as construction material. This study compares the compressive strength and tensile strength of normal concrete against compressive strength and tensile strength of concrete with the addition of pineapple fiber with variations of 0%, 0.5 %, 1%, 1.5% to the weight of cement. The specimen used was a cylinder with a diameter of 15cm and a height of 30cm. The test is carried out on specimens with the age of 28 days. Experimental results show that inclusion of Palf improves the split tensile strength and compressive strenghth of concrete.

PT. Berau Coal is one of the mining companies in Indonesia that focuses on coal mining and sales. This research was carried out on the haul road at Site Gurimbang Mine Operation, where the condition of the haul road is currently undulating and located above a swamp area. This condition reduces the speed of HD 785, resulting in the unit's productivity not achieving the company's target. The effort to improve the condition of the haul road is by using geotextile as a method of strengthening the haul road. The aim of this research is to determine the changes in soil density and soil bearing capacity after the geotextile reinforcement and to identify its impact on HD 785 productivity. The research was conducted by analyzing and processing data from the results of the DCP in-situ test to determine the soil density and soil bearing capacity in the initial and post-geotextile installation conditions. Actual field data collection in the form of HD 785 cycle time and speed data was used to evaluate the unit's productivity before and after geotextile installation. The results indicated that the utilizing geotextile can increase the soil density and soil bearing capacity to meet the CBR standards and soil bearing capacity for HD 785 units. The use of geotextile also increased the speed of HD 785 by 3 km/hour, both during load and empty travel, resulting in an increase in HD 785 productivity by 26% from the initial 43,821.63 bcm/month to 55,375.62 bcm/month.    

This paper is aimed to analyze the social economic mapping with a case study: brick home industry community in the district of Kisaran Barat. The problem in this research is to analyze the needs and potential contained therein. The data used is primary data that have been obtained to do data entry based on the guidance obtained from the actors concerned. There is a transfer in the form of qualitative data into quantitative measurement techniques reference instrument activities. From the results of this study indicate that the need for dry printing machines to improve fast results, finding the market for normal prices as well as regular coaching for good unity that will make the industry more competitive.

Based on the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center, Mount Sinabung itself is still at hazardous status up until now that can certainly erupt at any time and sprayed a lot of volcanic material which will lead to the abundance of volcanic ash material in the area of Mount Sinabung. How to optimize the volcanic ash waste is what scientists need to think about. In this study, volcanic ash obtained from Mount Sinabung is used as substitution of fine aggregate in the manufacture of concrete brick (paving block). The variations used were 0%, 25%, 50%, and 75% of the starting weight of the fine aggregate used. From the test results, it is obtained optimum compressive strength of 25.2 Mpa and optimum water absorption of 5.998% which means concrete brick (paving block) meets the classification contained in SNI 03-0691-1996.