• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.547-557
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• 2022

Dune sands are poorly graded collapsible soils lacking fines. This experimental study explored the technical feasibility of sustainable invigoration of fine waste materials to improve the geotechnical properties of dune sand. The fine waste considered in this study is fine marble waste. The fine waste powder was mixed with dune sand at different contents (5, 10,15, 20, 25, 50%), where the gradation, void ratio, compaction, and shear strength characteristics were assessed for each fine marble waste -dune sand blend. The geotechnical properties of the dune sand-fine marble waste mix delineated in this study reveal the enhancement in compaction and gradation characteristics of dune sand. According to the results, the binary mixture of dune sand with 20% of fine marble waste gives the highest maximum dry density and results in shear strength improvement. In addition, a numerical study is conducted for the practical application of the binary mix in the field and tested for an isolated shallow foundation. The elemental analysis of the fine marble waste confirms that the material is non-contaminated and can be employed for engineering applications. Furthermore, the numerical study elucidated that the shallow surface replacement of the site with the dune sand mixed with 20% fine marble waste gives optimal performance in terms of stress generation and settlement behavior of an isolated footing. For a sustainable mechanical performance of the fine marble waste mixed sand, an optimum dose of 20% fine marble waste is recommended, and some correlations are proposed. Thus, for improving dune sand's geotechnical characteristics, the addition of fine marble waste to the dune sand is an environment-friendly solution.

• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.63-74
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• 2023

All production and consumption activities produce wastes, which often cause damage to our environment and multiple risks to the human health. The valorization of these wastes in concrete technology is a future solution that will allow finding other construction materials sources, optimizing energy consumption and protecting the environment. Among these wastes, there is the marble waste. Every year, huge amount of marble waste is discarded as dust or aggregates form, in open-air storage areas causing serious problems for the environment and public health. In this context, the incorporation of marble waste as a replacement of ordinary aggregates or cement in concrete composition is actively investigated by researchers. This paper presents a comprehensive review of published studies over the last 20 years, dealing the effect of marble waste on fresh and hardened properties of concrete. Most of the studies carried out have used marble waste as dust with substitution rates between 5 and 20%. Besides the economic and ecological benefits, this review showed that marble waste can improve the physical, mechanical and durability properties of concrete. This improvement depends on the form (dust, fine aggregate or coarse aggregate), substitution method (as cement or aggregates replacement) and substitution rate of marble waste. Additionally, the review results showed that the use of 10-15% of marble waste dust as cement substitution can lead to increase the compressive strength.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제67권1호
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• pp.87-91
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• 2018

Concrete is the most widely used building material all over the world, because of its many technical and economic qualities. This pressure on the concrete resource causes an intensive exploitation of the quarries of aggregates, which results in a exhaustion of these and environmental problems. That is why recycling and valorization of materials are considered as future solutions, to fill the deficit between production and consumption and to protect the environment. This study is part of the valorization process of local materials, which aims to reuse marble waste as fine aggregate (excess loads of marble waste exposed to bad weather conditions) available in the marble quarry of Fil-fila (Skikda, East of Algeria) in the manufacture of self-compacting concretes. It consists of introducing the marble waste as sand into the self-compacting concrete formulation, with variable percentages (25%, 50%, 75% and 100%) and to study the development of its properties both in fresh state (air content, density, slump flow, V-funnel, L-box and sieve stability) as well as the hardened one (compressive strength and flexural strength). The results obtained showed us that marble wastes can be used as sand in the manufacture of self compacting concretes.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.1241-1251
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• 2015

Faced with the growing needs of material resources and requirements of environmental protection for achieving sustainable development, it has become necessary to study and investigate all possibilities of exploring crushed and dune sand, reusing industrial wastes and by-product, and also applying new technologies including sand concrete which can replace the conventional concretes in certain structures to surmount the deficit on construction materials, conserve natural resources, lessen the burden of pollutants to protect the environment and reduce the consumption of energy sources. This experimental study is a part of development and valorization of local materials project in Skikda region (East of Algeria). It aims at studying the effects of partial replacement of sand with marble waste as fines on several fresh and hardened properties of sand concrete in order to reuse these wastes in the concrete manufacturing, resolve the environmental problems caused by them and find another source of construction materials. To achieve these objectives, an experimental program has been carried out; it was consisted to incorporate different percentages of marble waste fines (2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12%) in the formulations of sand concrete and study the development of several mechanical and rheological properties. We are also trying to find the optimal percentage of marble waste fine replaced in sand concrete that makes the strength of the concrete maximum. Obtained results showed that marble waste fines improve the properties of sand concrete and can be used as an additive material in sand concrete formulation.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.567-573
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• 2012

인조대리석은 천연대리석에 비해 우수한 외형, 높은 마감도, 고른 빛깔, 압력과 마모에 대한 우수한 저항성, 부식과 풍화에 대한 우수한 저항성 등의 장점을 가지고 있다. 그래서 인조대리석은 주방용 조리대, 욕실 세면대, 가구, 안내 데스크 등에 다양하게 사용되고 있다. 그러나 인조대리석을 자르고 마감하는 과정에서 많은 양의 폐기물들이 스크랩 또는 분진의 형태로 발생한다. 고급스런 인테리어 재료의 수요의 증가에 따라 인조대리석으로부터의 폐기물은 증가하고 있다. 폐인조대리석은 분쇄, 열분해, 증류공정 등을 통하여 전자재료, 세라믹 등의 원료가 되는 산화알루미늄 및 인조대리석의 원료가 되는 MMA로 재생이 가능하다. 폐인조대리석의 특성을 TGA/DSC 및 원소분석을 통해 그 특성을 분석하였다. 폐인조대리석을 분쇄 및 열분해하여 원 산화알루미늄을 얻었다. 본 연구에서는 원 산화알루미늄을 회수하는 공정의 최적화를 위해 Box-Behnken 실험계획법을 사용하였다. 원 산화알루미늄의 특성치는 색도 분석, 원소 분석 그리고 표면적 등에 의하여 평가하였다.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 수산화 알루미늄이 다량 포함되어 있는 인조대리석 폐기물을 폐광산지역의 지하수 및 지표수 등에서 검출되는 유해중금속 제거용으로 재활용 가능성을 조사하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 폐기물을 $550^{\circ}C$에서 $1000^{\circ}C$ 온도범위에서 열처리하여 알루미나 분말을 추출하였으며, 이렇게 얻어진 열처리분말에 대해 온도에 따른 상변화를 XRD를 통해 분석하고, 비표면적 측정, SEM 분석 등을 통해 분말의 특성을 조사하고, 중금속인 비소의 흡착특성을 조사하였다 그 결과, 열처리된 알루미나 산화물 분말이 중금속 처리에 효과가 있음을 확인할 수 있었으며, 열처리분말의 구성성분에 영향을 받는다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한, 열처리 분말 성형체를 소결한 결과, $1200^{\circ}C$ 이하에서 60% 이상의 높은 기공률을 가진 펠렛을 제조할 수 있었으며, 소결조제인 glass 분말의 첨가에 의해 $900^{\circ}C$의 낮은 소결온도에서도 기공률을 유지하면서 비교적 높은 비소흡착률을 가지는 시편을 제조할 수 있었다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제29권 5호
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• pp.335-346
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• 2022

Geopolymers are an important alternative material supporting recycling, sustainability, and waste management. Durability properties are among the most critical parameters to be investigated; in this study, the durability of manufactured geopolymer samples under the attack of 10% magnesium sulfate and 10% sodium sulfate solution was investigated. 180 cycles of freezing and thawing were also tested. The experimentally obtained results investigate the durability of geopolymer mortar prepared with fly ash (class F) and alkali activator. Three different quarry dust wastes replaced the river sand aggregate: limestone, marble, and basalt powder as fine filler aggregate in three different replacement ratios of 25%, 50%, and 75% to produce ten series of geopolymer composites. The geopolymer samples' visual appearance, weight changes, UPV, and strength properties were studied for up to 12 months at different time intervals of exposure to sulfate solutions to investigate sulfate resistance. In addition, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), EDS, and XRD were used to study the microstructure of the samples. It was beneficial to include quarry waste as a filler aggregate in durability and mechanical properties. The compact matrix was demonstrated by microstructural analysis of the manufactured specimens. The geopolymer mortars immersed in sodium sulfate showed less strength reduction and deterioration than magnesium sulfate, indicating that magnesium sulfate is more aggressive than sodium sulfate. Therefore, it is concluded that using waste dust interrogation with partial replacement of river sand with fly ash-based geopolymers has satisfactory results in terms of durability properties of freeze-thaw and sulfate resistance.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.373-381
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• 2023

Fly ash, granulated blast furnace slag, marble waste powder, etc. are just some of the by-products of other sectors that the construction industry is looking to include into the many types of concrete they produce. This research seeks to use surrogate machine learning methods to forecast the compressive strength of self-compacting concrete. The surrogate models were developed using Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), and Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) techniques. Compressive strength is used as the output variable, with nano silica content, cement content, coarse aggregate content, fine aggregate content, superplasticizer, curing duration, and water-binder ratio as input variables. Of the four models, GBM had the highest accuracy in determining the compressive strength of SCC. The concrete's compressive strength is worst predicted by GPR. Compressive strength of SCC with nano silica is found to be most affected by curing time and least by fine aggregate.