TY - BOOK AU - Noha Ahmed Rabie Khalil AU - Mohamed Abdulla Alkholy , TI - Influence of silica fume on mechanical behavior of silica sand / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Noha Ahmed Rabie Khalil , KW - Shear strength KW - Silica fume KW - Silica sand N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - The unfavorable effects of environmental pollution have gaind growing interest in the past few years in Egypt . One way is to reuse polluting waste in industry . It becomes economically to use the byproduct waste material resulting from industrial facilities in many engineering applications . Silica fume also known as micro - silica is generated during silicon metal production as very fine dust of silica from a blast furnce ER -