Recycled Concrete
Technologies and Performance
- 1st Edition - November 11, 2022
- Editors: Vivian W. Y. Tam, Mahfooz Soomro, Ana Evangelista
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 2 1 0 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 6 0 1 5 - 4
Recycled Concrete: Technologies and Performance presents the latest technologies that can be applied to produce high and consistent quality recycled aggregate for use in struct… Read more
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Request a sales quoteRecycled Concrete: Technologies and Performance presents the latest technologies that can be applied to produce high and consistent quality recycled aggregate for use in structural concrete, and in alternative binders like Geopolymer and other types of concrete. The book discusses the lifecycle assessment of implementing sustainable construction technologies and evaluates the environmental impacts of recycled concrete in construction applications. It covers their use in the production of durable recycled concrete, their reduced environmental impact, quality improvement techniques, and more, making it valuable and relevant for civil and structural engineers, recycle industry managers, ready-mix and precast concrete producers and researchers.
- Discusses alternative binding materials for recycled aggregate
- Covers how to use concrete with recycled aggregates, along with the advantages and disadvantages
- Provides guidance on using recycled concrete aggregates, designing mixtures and how to best produce RCAs
Civil, construction and structural engineers – academia (postgrad, instructors) and industry. Recycle industry managers, structural designers, architects, contractors and builders
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgment
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Construction and demolition waste – overview
- 1.2. Sustainability and the benefits of LCA – recycled concrete
- 1.3. Outline of the book
- 2. Production of cement and its environmental impact
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Cement manufacture
- 2.3. Cement chemical composition
- 2.4. Clinker phase composition
- 2.5. Properties of clinker phases
- 2.6. Cement hydration products
- 2.7. Types of cements and blended cements
- 2.8. Environmental impact of cement production
- 2.9. Summary
- 3. Industrial and agro-waste materials for use in recycled concrete
- 3.1. Flyash
- 3.2. Waste glass as Pozzolan
- 3.3. Silica fume
- 3.4. Rice husk ash
- 3.5. Sugarcane bagasse ash (SCBA)
- 3.6. Palm oil fuel ash (POFA)
- 3.7. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of recycled concrete containing by-products and plant materials
- 3.8. Summary
- 4. Recycled aggregates and their properties
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Aggregates from CDW
- 4.3. Composition of RMA and RCA
- 4.4. Relationship between physical properties
- 4.5. Blast furnace slag (BFS)
- 4.6. Electric arc furnace slag (EAF-slag)
- 4.7. Coal fly ash
- 4.8. Scrap tires
- 4.9. Municipal solid waste (MSW) combustor ash
- 4.10. Inert/incinerated sewage sludge
- 4.11. Urban plastic waste
- 4.12. Waste glass
- 4.13. Foundry sand
- 4.14. Summary
- 5. Quality improvement of recycled aggregate
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Quality improvement of recycled aggregate using thermal-mechanical-chemical process
- 5.3. Alternative uses of removed residual mortar
- 5.4. Recycling of concrete rubble using thermo-mechanical treatment
- 5.5. Summary
- 6. Recycled concrete for structural applications
- 6.1. Coarse recycled aggregates for concrete
- 6.2. Coarse recycled aggregate produced from concrete waste
- 6.3. Mechanical behavior of recycled aggregate concrete
- 6.4. Overview of the structural behavior of recycled aggregate concrete
- 6.5. Model uncertainty of recycled aggregate concrete design
- 6.6. Concluding remarks
- 7. Recycled concrete for nonstructural applications
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Use of recycled concrete in nonstructural applications
- 7.3. Practices and issues of adopting recycled aggregates in new applications
- 7.4. Types of nonstructural members
- 7.5. Case studies
- 7.6. Summary
- 8. Durability of recycled concrete
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Permeability
- 8.3. Chemical attacks on concrete
- 8.4. Freeze and thaw cycles
- 8.5. Resistance to carbonation
- 8.6. Resistance to corrosion
- 8.7. Alkali-silica reaction
- 8.8. Gas penetration
- 8.9. Future advances
- 9. Alternative binders—high volume bauxite red mud alkali activated cements and concretes
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Role of red mud in the microstructure formation of hardened cement paste
- 9.3. Compositions and properties of red mud containing alkali activated materials
- 9.4. Conclusions
- 10. Life cycle assessment for structural and non-structural concrete
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. LCA phases and related concepts
- 10.3. Databases available
- 10.4. LCA-based software tools
- 10.5. Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA)
- 10.6. Interpretation
- 10.7. Key aspects to consider during a concrete-LCA practice
- 10.8. Data reliability
- 10.9. Concrete constituents
- 10.10. Circular economy
- 10.11. Dynamic LCA framework
- 10.12. Life cycle thinking
- 10.13. Summary - environmental impacts and their management
- 11. Asset management of recycled concrete applications
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Asset Management Systems and Standards
- 11.3. Decision-support tools for asset management
- 11.4. Contextual factors for the asset management system
- 11.5. Questions for designing a recycled concrete asset management system
- 11.6. Conclusions
- Index
- No. of pages: 386
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 11, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323852104
- eBook ISBN: 9780323860154
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Vivian W. Y. Tam
Professor Vivian W. Y. Tam is the Associate Dean (Research and HDR), Associate Dean (International) and Discipline Leader (Construction Management) at School of Built Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia. She is nominated to the College of Expert, Australian Research Council, Australian Government. She received her Ph.D. in sustainable construction from the Department of Building and Construction at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are in the areas of environmental management in construction and sustainable development. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Construction Management and Editor of Construction and Building Materials.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Built Environment, Western Sydney University, AustraliaMS
Mahfooz Soomro
Dr. Soomro is working as Visiting Research Fellow at Western Sydney University School of Built Environment with c. Dr Soomro received his PhD from University of Salford, Manchester, U.K. He was Associate Professor with the Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan in 1983-85. He worked as Senior Scientist with Heidelberg Cement in Germany (2008-2011) and as Deputy General Manager (R&D) with State Cement Corporation, Ministry of Production, Government of Pakistan (1988-1994).
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Built Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, AustraliaAE
Ana Evangelista
Dr Evangelista is a Civil Engineer, Lecturer at the Engineering Institute of Technology (Perth). Her research in Australia has been focused on sustainability in construction and engineering materials. PhD research was mostly concentrated on non-destructive tests to evaluate concrete structures. In 1997, she started her academic career coordinating and teaching units at the School of Civil Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Additionally, she managed the Construction Materials Laboratory providing external consultancy to the Construction Engineering sector. In 2008, she joined the Environmental Engineering Program at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) conducting research and supervising higher degree students investigating eco-friendly engineering materials. From 2016 to 2019 she worked as a visiting research fellow with Professor Vivian Tam in the area of recycled concrete at Western Sydney University / School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer and Researcher, School of Civil Engineering, Engineering Institute of Technology, Perth, AustraliaRead Recycled Concrete on ScienceDirect