Plastic wastes (PW) create chronic environmental problems mainly because it is not biodegradable. The utilization of PW as a fractional substitution fine aggregate in concrete production sustainable application. However, the smooth surface plastic weakens cement-plastic bond and consequently lessens mechanical properties concrete. This research improves by increasing hydrophilicity coarseness p...

This study presents the result of using melting to recover both industrial sludge slag (the main constituent of which is calcium fluoride) and water works sludge slag as fine aggregate in cement. The main characteristics of both slag and cement mortars were measured to evaluate the feasibility of using slag as aggregate. In this study, the slag replacement ratios were 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50%...

This paper provides an overview on obtaining low-carbon ultra-fine grained dual-phase steels through rapid intercritical annealing of cold-rolled sheet as improved materials for automotive applications. A laboratory processing route was designed that involves cold-rolling of a tempered martensite structure followed by a second tempering step to produce a fine grained aggregate of ferrite and ca...

Concrete mix design by the ACI method requires various material properties as the input. The effect of variation of these input parameters on mix proportions has been studied here, with reference to strength attainment in few cases. The sensitivity of the mix has been expressed by volume ratios of fine aggregate to coarse aggregate and cement to fine aggregate. It is found that inter-particle v...

In 1995, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) began reconstruction in Houston on a section of IH-10 with continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP). The unique aspect of this project was the use of crushed concrete as both coarse and fine aggregates in the new concrete. No virgin aggregates were used. The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate (1) the material propert...

The aim of this study is to compare the mechanical and physical properties different geopolymer mortars made with granulated blast furnace slag as a source material, NaOH (8 M) activating solution, three types fine aggregates (air-cooled slag, biomass bottom ashes, silica sand). samples were an aggregate/geopolymer ratio 3/1, (density mercury intrusion porosimetry), (compressive flexural streng...

Since the aggregate is 80 % of the total volume of the concrete and mortar, the characteristic properties of the aggregate affect the fresh and hardened properties of the concrete and mortar [1]. The characteristic properties of the aggregate such as the shape, the size and structure affect the properties of the fresh concrete and the mortar like workability, settlement, pumping and segregation...

Since the aggregate is 80 % of the total volume of the concrete and mortar, the characteristic properties of the aggregate affect the fresh and hardened properties of the concrete and mortar [1]. The characteristic properties of the aggregate such as the shape, the size and structure affect the properties of the fresh concrete and the mortar like workability, settlement, pumping and segregation...

Our research objective is to foster a multiscale understanding of fine recycled aggregate concrete using bottom-up approach. We investigate the influence aggregates on structure calcium-silicate-hydrates. To this end, we introduce new thought model for with four levels structural hierarchy: beam, mortar, binder, and C–S–H gel levels. characterize behavior natural sand analytical methods such as...