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Handbook of Sustainable Concrete and Industrial Waste Management

Recycled and Artificial Aggregate, Innovative Eco-friendly Binders, and Life Cycle Assessment

  • 1st Edition - December 1, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Francesco Colangelo, Raffaele Cioffi, Ilenia Farina
  • Language: English

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Description

The Handbook of Sustainable Concrete and Industrial Waste Management summarizes key research trends in recycling and reusing concrete and industrial waste to reduce their environmental impact. This volume also includes important contributions in collaboration with the CRI-TEST Innovation Lab, Naples – Acerra.

Part one discusses eco-friendly innovative cement and concrete and reviews key substitute materials. Part two analyzes the use of industrial waste as aggregates and the mechanical properties of concrete containing waste materials. Part three discusses differences between innovative binders, focusing on alkali-activated and geopolymer concrete. Part four provides a thorough overview of the life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete containing industrial wastes and the impacts related to the logistics of wastes, the production of the concrete, and the management of industrial wastes.

By providing research examples, case studies, and practical strategies, this book is a state-of-the-art reference for researchers working in construction materials, civil or structural engineering, and engineers working in the industry.

Key features

  • Offers a systematic and comprehensive source of information on the latest developments in sustainable concrete;
  • Analyzes different types of sustainable concrete and innovative binders from chemical, physical, and mechanical points of view;
  • Includes real case studies showing application of the LCA methodology.

Readership

Materials scientists and engineers; civil engineers.

Table of contents

Part 1. Eco-friendly innovative cement and concrete

1. Foamed concrete containing industrial wastes

2. Valorization of industrial by-products and wastes as sustainable construction materials

3. Enunciation of lightweight and self-compacting concretes using non-conventional materials

4. The use of construction and demolition waste as a recycled aggregate in sustainable concrete production: workability, strength, and durability properties

5. Natural fibers

6. Eco-friendly fiber-reinforced concretes

Part 2. Use of industrial waste as aggregates: properties of concrete

7. Energy-saving materials

8. Fresh and mechanical properties of concrete made with recycled plastic aggregates

9. Recycled glass as a concrete component: possibilities and challenges

10. Recycled aggregate concrete: mechanical and durability performance

11. Microstructure and properties of concrete with ceramic wastes

12. Agricultural plastic waste

13. Recycling and applications of steel slag aggregates

14. Quarry waste

15. Implementation of agricultural crop wastes toward green construction materials

16. Balancing sustainability, workability, and hardened behavior in the mix design of self-compacting concrete

17. Design guidelines for structural and non-structural applications

18. Strength and microstructure properties of self-compacting concrete using mineral admixtures. Case study I

19. Durability properties of self-compacting concrete using mineral admixtures. Case study II

Part 3. Innovative binders: alkali-activated and geopolymer concrete

20. Difference between geopolymers and alkali-activated materials

21. Geopolymer binders containing construction and demolition waste

22. On the properties of sustainable concrete containing mineral admixtures

23. Sustainable alkali-activated materials

24. Design guidelines for structural and non-structural applications

25. Future trends: nanomaterials in alkali-activated composites

Part 4. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete

26. Calculation of the environmental impact of the integration of industrial waste in concrete using LCA

27. Role of transport distance on the environmental impact of the construction and demolition waste (CDW) recycling process

28. Management of industrial waste

29. Use of industrial waste in construction and a cost analysis

30. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete containing waste materials: comparative studies

31. Opportunities and future challenges of geopolymer mortars for sustainable development

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 6, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Francesco Colangelo

Francesco Colangelo is a Full Professor of Innovative Materials for Civil Engineering and the director of the master’s course in Safety Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. His main research areas include recycling of waste materials in concrete and geo-environmental and civil applications, treatment of MSWI fly ash, application of lifecycle assessment methodology to various processes for preparing innovative building materials, evaluation of the durability of mortars and concrete, stabilization and solidification of hazardous wastes, and synthesis of geopolymeric eco-sustainable materials based on industrial waste. He has extensive consultancy experience in the treatment and recycling of solid waste, remediation of old landfills, and resource recovery plants. He has served as the principal investigator for numerous research projects in collaboration with public and private companies. Since 2012, he has been a senior member of RILEM.

Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, MASERG – Materials Science and Engineering Research Group, Department of Engineering, Parthenope University of Naples, Naples, Italy

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Raffaele Cioffi

Raffaele Cioffi has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II. He is Professor of Materials Science and Technology and Materials Engineering at the University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy. He has been the Head of the Department of Technology and the director of the Research Quality Centre of the University of Naples "Parthenope". He has been the director of the Sustainable Development Engineering Laboratory of the Department of Technology, the president of the Teaching Board for the Industrial Engineering Course, and he is the coordinator of the Technical and Scientific Committee for the Master Course in Safety Engineering of the University of Naples " Parthenope". He is the vice-president of the Italian Association on Materials Engineering (AIMAT).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Materials Science and Technology and Materials Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy

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Ilenia Farina

Ilenia Farina is an Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. She received a DPhil in Energy Science and Engineering from the same university. Her main research activities focus on the stabilization and solidification of hazardous industrial solid wastes, soils, and sediments; the development of energy-saving blended cements, concrete, and geopolymer materials made with coal fly ash, blast furnace slag, MSWI ashes, and other industrial by-products; the inertization of industrial and asbestos-containing wastes and sediments through mechanochemical treatments, with subsequent reuse of the resulting products as building materials; and life cycle assessment (LCA) of production processes for eco-compatible construction materials. She is responsible for several research projects in collaboration with public and private companies.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, MASERG – Materials Science and Engineering Research Group, Department of Engineering, Parthenope University of Naples, Naples, Italy

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