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Use of Recycled Brick Masonry Aggregate (RBMA) and Recycled Brick Masonry Aggregate Concrete (RBMAC) in Sustainable Construction

  • Tara L. Cavalline;David C. Weggel;Dallas E. Schwerin
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.390-390
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    • 2013
  • Use of recycled aggregates in portland cement concrete construction can offer benefits associated with both economy and sustainability. Testing performed to date indicates that RBMA can be used as a 100% replacement for conventional coarse aggregate in concrete that exhibits acceptable mechanical properties for use in structural and pavement elements, including satisfactory performance in some durability tests. RBMAC is currently not used in any type of construction in the United States. However, use of RBMAC could become a viable construction strategy as sustainable building practices become the norm. Rating systems such as LEED offer points for reuse of building materials (particularly on-site) and use of recycled materials. If renovations at an existing facility call for the demolition of existing brick masonry constructions, the rubble could be included as RBMA in new concrete pavement, sidewalks, or curb and gutter. Other potential uses for RBMAC could include those in the precast concrete industry, particularly in architectural precast concrete applications. In addition to providing acceptable strength and economy, the color of RBMA could be an attractive component of architectural precast concrete panels or other façade components. This paper explores the feasibility of use of RBMAC in several types of sustainable construction initiatives, based upon the findings of previous work with RBMAC produced from construction and demolition waste from a case study site. Guidance for obtaining and using RBMA is presented, along with a summary of material properties of RBMAC that will be useful to construction professionals.

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An Experimental Study on the Axial Strength of Centrifugall Formed Shell PC Columns (원심성형 중공PC기둥의 압축 실험)

  • Park, Jin-Young;Yang, Won-Jik;Yi, Waon-Ho;Oh, Sang-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.37-40
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    • 2008
  • Recently, Construction Business, is changing very quickly, exceedingly needs to slim down the construction expensive by reducing material costs and the term of works. The term of formwork takes 25% of the term of works and costs 15% to 20% of the cost of construction. Hereupon, the purpose of this study is to investigate the Axial Strength of Centrifugall Formed Shell PC Columns that can reduce the term of formwork, the costs of material, the difficulty of throwing away the waste. Shell PC Column is loaded stirrups and manufactured at factory, so it has good points like construction's quality control and part's precision. However, it needs to be tested for checking bonded ability because it is set up at core and coverd with concrete. therefore this study is necessary three type of columns, which are a RC column, different type of two compressive strength core concrete columns and a Shell PC Column. By three columns, this study compare with and analysis three columns's bonded and Compressive Behavior abilities.

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Field Applicability Assessment of Controlled Low Strength Material for Sewer Pipe using Excavated Soil (굴착토를 활용한 유동화 채움재의 현장 적용성 평가)

  • Kim, Young-Wook;Lee, Bong-Chun;Jung, Sang-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.349-357
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    • 2019
  • Controlled low strength material(CLSM) has been developed using variety of material such as excavated soil, industrial by-product and industrial waste. But theses research limited at laboratory test and failed at commercialization. So in this paper evaluates CLSM used excavated soil characteristics such as flowability, bleeding rate, early strength for following process and 28day strength for re-excavatability. Also, various mix proportion of CLSM by water-binder ratio and soil-binder ratio were evaluated in laboratory. And derive the optimized CLSM mix proportion for using at field application test by movable batch plant. After applying CLSM at trench, evaluate core sample strength and excavatability by shovel, pickax and excavator for verify re-excavation. Furthermore, measure the level change after casting CLSM to inspect subsidence stability. As results of these assessments, not only confirmed the characteristics of CLSM at field but the fillability around pipe and subsidence stability.

Utilization of Stone Sludge Produced by Stone Block Manufacturing Process as Concrete Admixtures (석재 가공시 발생한 석분슬러지의 콘크리트 혼화재료로의 활용)

  • Jeong, Jin-Seob;Lee, Jong-Cheon;Yang, Keek-Young;So, Kwang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.83-89
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    • 2008
  • The stone sludge produced during the manufacturing process of stone blocks is considered as one of industrial waste materials. This stone sludge are managed to either burying under the ground or stacking in the yard, but this disposal process is required an extra costs. The stone sludge disposal like burying or stacking also cause environmental pollutions such as ground pollution and subterranean water pollution. Thus, this study was conducted to explore the possibility of recycling of stone dust sludge as a concrete mixing material in order to extend recycling methods and to solve the shortage of aggregate caused by recently increased demand in construction. Based on the experiment results on various ratios of cement to stone sludge content, the compressive strengths of concrete were recorded in the range of $20{\sim}30N/mm2$. The results did not show any decrease in compressive strength due to the stone dust content. It can be concluded that the stone sludge produced by stone block manufacturing can be sufficiently recycled as one of concrete mixing materials in the aspect of compressive strength.

Strength Properties of Non-cement Matrix by Using Recycled Aggregates and Sludge from Ready-Mixed Concrete (레미콘의 슬러지 고형분과 회수골재를 사용한 무시멘트 경화체의 강도특성)

  • Ryu, Dong-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.477-482
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    • 2016
  • This study investigates the expressions characteristics of compression strength depending on the condition of fresh concrete and cured concrete by producing Non-cement mortar and concrete only with solidified sludge in the dehydrated cake form, recycled concrete and premixed materials(BS, FA) in order to actively use remicon recycling water as resources, rather than as construction waste material. After treating wastewater of pH 12.5 or more with alkali activator and after promoting BS hydration reaction, the amount of BS inflow was found to be increased and compression strength was increased accordingly: these results coincide with the analysis results of TG-DTA and SEM.

Application of Waste Concrete Powder as Silica Powder of Cement Extruding Panel (시멘트 압출패널의 규사분말 대체재로서 폐콘크리트 미립분의 활용)

  • Kim, Jin-Man;Kim, Kee-Seok;La, Jung-Min;Choi, Duck-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.88-94
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    • 2011
  • To make recycling aggregate, quantity of fine particles increase due to multi-crushing. Though this particles were mixed with recycling aggregate, those have to be disparted from aggregate in the high quality recycling aggregate, because of the cause of low quality. Considering reactivity, fine particles is better than coarse one. Therefore, it needs to develop suitable usage. We try to make cement extruding material by using the fine particles from concrete recycling, as a silicious replacement. Test results are as follows ; 1) Waste concrete powder has major ingredients such as $SiO_2$ and CaO, its density is $2.45g/cm^3$ being similar to silica powder, its diameter is range 13 to $141{\mu}m$. 2) Considering to strength properties according to particle size, specimen was made using small particles is higher strength than large one. 3) Despite of exception in the autoclaved curing, when the replacement of waste fine particle increase, strength of extruding panel shows almost same level.

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A Fundamental Study for Beneficial Use of Dredged Material as a Concrete Admixture (항만준설토의 콘크리트 혼합재로의 활용을 위한 기초적 연구)

  • Oh, Hong-Seob;Oh, Kwang-Jin;Lee, Ju-Won
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.132-141
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    • 2010
  • Recently dredged material generation has a tendency to increase since harbor construction are under progress. In this study, an experiment had been carried out which replacement of dredged material of Busan and Ulsan port as concrete mixing material. For this experiment, physical and chemical test of dredged material was carried out, and compressive strength test of mortal specimen with dredged material in scale, as aggregate replacement, was carried out. Compressive strength of Busan and Ulsan was both increased when the ratio of mixing materials was 10%. Compressive strength of Dredged material from Busan with about 70% of mineral silt showed increse when the ratio of aggregate replacement in 30%. In addition, in the result of the ICP test, both dredged materials satisfied the waste's marine discharge treatment and soil contamination concern and measures criterion on that using dredged material as a concrete material can influence on application of concrete positively.

Theoretical Proposal for the Mix Design of Recycled Cement Utilizing Inorganic Construction Wastes (무기계 건설폐기물을 이용한 재생시멘트 배합설계에 관한 이론적 제안)

  • Kim, Ji-Hoon;Tae, Sung-Ho;Song, Hun;Shin, Hyeon-Uk
    • Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.250-258
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    • 2016
  • Until now, the construction material industry has been recognized as a typical environmental destruction industry. However, recently, in order to reduce $CO_2$ emission, the main cause of environmental problems, lots of studies have been done about recycling industrial by-products and construction wastes. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to confirm whether it is possible to use as an alternative material in cement production process as a part of the development of recycled cement using an inorganic construction waste. For this study, the inorganic construction wastes was collected and analyzed each chemical component by XRF(X-ray Fluorescene). Also, the inorganic construction wastes were combined based on the chemical component of the cement, to perform this analysis. As a result, when the inorganic construction wastes was properly combined, it is possible to consider the development of the recycled cement used the inorganic construction wastes.

Evaluation on Reactivity of By-Product Pozzolanic Materials Using Electrical Conductivity Measurement (전기전도도 시험방법을 활용한 산업부산물 포졸란재료의 반응성 평가)

  • Choi, Ik-Je;Kim, Ji-Hyun;Lee, Soo-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.421-428
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    • 2016
  • In this work, pozzolanic activities of various waste materials were compared with those of well-known by-product pozzolanic materials. Undensified and densified silica fume, ASTM class F and class C fly ash, and metakaolin were chosen as well-known pozzolanic materials, and bentonite powder, ceramic powder obtained from wash basin, and waste glass wool, which can possibly possess pozzolanic property, were chosen for comparison. Drop in electrical conductivity at $40^{\circ}C$ saturated lime solution was measured for each materials. The amount of Ca(OH)2 decomposed from cement paste at $450{\sim}500^{\circ}C$ was also measured to evaluate pozzolanic activity. The 28 day compressive strength were used to observe the mechanical property enhanced by incorporation of various waste materials. According to the experimental results, using "difference between maximum conductivity value and conductivity value at 4 hour" was found to be a reasonable approach to determine pozzolanic activity of a material. Pozzolanic activity measured using electrical conductivity correlates very well with that measured using the amount of Ca(OH)2 remained in the cement paste. Relatively good agreement was also found with electrical conductivity and 28 day compressive strength. It was found that electrical conductivity measurement can be used to evaluate pozzolanic activity of unknown materials.

Mix Design and Characteristics of Compressive Strengths for Foam Concrete Associated with the Application of Bottom Ash (Bottom Ash를 사용한 기포콘크리트의 배합 설계 및 압축강도 특성)

  • Kim, Sang-Chel;Ahn, Sang-Ku
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.283-290
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    • 2009
  • Differently from fly ash, the bottom ash produced from thermoelectric power plant has been treated as an industrial waste matter, and almost reclaimed a tract from the sea. If this waste material is applicable to foam concrete as an aggregate owing to its light-weight, however, it may be worthy of environmental preservation by recycling of waste material as well as reducing self-weight of high-rising structure and horizontal forces and deformations of retaining wall subject to soil pressure. This study has an objective of evaluating the effects of application of bottom ash on the mechanical properties of foam concrete. Thus, the ratio of bottom ash to cement was selected as a variable for experiment and the effect was measured in terms of unit weight of concrete, air content, water-cement ratio and compressive strength. It can be observed from experiments that the application ratios have different effects on the material parameters considered in this experiment, thus major relationships between application ratio and each material parameter were finally introduced. The result of this study can be applied to decide a mix design proportion of foam concrete while bottom ash is used as an aggregate of the concrete.