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Recent Trends in the Sustainability Improvement and Use of Wastes in Cementitious Materials

Utilization of Wastes and Locally Sourced Materials

  • 1st Edition - December 3, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Adeyemi Adesina
  • Language: English

Recent Trends in the Sustainability Improvement and Use of Wastes in Cementitious Materials: Utilization of Wastes and Locally Sourced Materials delves into modern advanceme… Read more

Description

Recent Trends in the Sustainability Improvement and Use of Wastes in Cementitious Materials: Utilization of Wastes and Locally Sourced Materials delves into modern advancements aimed at enhancing the sustainability of cementitious materials. With increasing awareness in the construction sector about the environmental repercussions of traditional cement, particularly Portland cement, the book explores various sustainable alternatives. By presenting theoretical foundations and practical applications, it outlines how waste products and local materials can be integrated into cementitious materials to mitigate environmental impact.

The book is divided into seven key sections: partial and total replacement of Portland cement as a binder, use of waste products as aggregate and reinforcement, life cycle assessment, numerical analysis, and case studies. It provides a comprehensive reference for academic researchers, materials scientists, engineers, R&D managers, and practitioners focusing on environmental sustainability in construction.

Key features

  • Focuses on sustainable cementitious materials developed over the last 30 years
  • Provides a comprehensive overview of alkali-activated materials
  • Employs a global rather than regional approach
  • Acknowledges the presence of life cycle assessment of sustainable cementitious materials
  • Presents case studies on the practical applications of sustainable cementitious materials and discusses various ways to improve and assess the sustainability of these materials

Readership

Academic researchers, materials scientists and engineers, civil and structural engineers, R&D managers, and manufactures working in the development of construction materials, practitioners working in environmental sustainability and postgraduate students in all of the above-listed disciplines

Table of contents

Introduction Partial Replacement of Portland Cement

1. Use of Industrial Wastes

2. Use of Agricultural Wastes

3. Use of Locally Sourced Non-Waste Materials

Total Replacement of Portland Cement

4. Use of Industrial Wastes without Activator

5. Sustainable Alternatives to Portland Cement

6. Overview of Alkali-activated Materials

7. Use of Industrial Wastes as Precursor

8. Use of Agricultural Wastes as Precursors

9. Use of Natural Materials as Precursors

10. Use of Sustainable Activators in AAMs

11. Impact of Precursor and Activator type on

Sustainability Use of Waste Products as Aggregates

12. Use of Industrial Wastes

13. Use of Agricultural Wastes

14. Use of Construction and Demolition Wastes

15. Challenges with the use of waste products as aggregate

16. Performance Enhancement of Waste Products Used as Aggregate

17. Use of Locally Sourced Non-Waste Materials

Use of Waste Products as Reinforcement

18. Agricultural Wastes

19. Industrial Wastes

20. Natural Materials

21. Hybrid Wastes as Reinforcement

22. Improvement/Treatment of Wastes Used as Reinforcement

Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Cementitious Materials

23. Methods to evaluate the Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Cementitious Materials

24. Challenges with the Life Cycle Assessment of Sustainable Cementitious Materials

Numerical analysis and Prediction of Sustainable Cementitious Materials Properties

25. Application of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities

26. Numerical methods to Predict and Optimize Properties of Sustainable Cementitious Materials

27. Use of Artificial Intelligence to Predict Properties of Sustainable Cementitious Materials

28. Optimization and Modelling of Alkali-activated Materials

Case Studies and Practical Applications of Sustainable Cementitious Materials

29. Practical Applications of High-volume Industrial Wastes in Cementitious Materials

30. Global Examples of Use of Alkali-activated Materials

31. Long term Performance of Sustainable Cementitious Materials

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 3, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Adeyemi Adesina

Adeyemi Adesina is a research associate at the University of Windsor and a Sustainability Consultant where his research revolves around the sustainability and performance improvement of various cementitious materials. He received his BEng from the University of Iloran, Nigeria in 2012 and then went on to receive his Master’s in 2016 from Concordia University in Montreal. In April 2022 he was awarded his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Windsor in Ontario. His extensive research has resulted in various practical applications which have helped various construction companies to improve the sustainability and performance of their construction materials. Dr. Adesina has active collaborators in more than 12 countries on different continents which has resulted in carrying out research that has both local and global impacts. Dr. Adesina has also published more than 100 technical papers in various top journals including chapters in books published by Elsevier and Springer. Dr. Adesina is also a technical committee member of ACI committee 301 on Concrete Sustainability and RILEM TC 294 on Mechanical Properties of Alkali-activated Concrete.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Associate, University of Windsor, Canada

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