Viability of Using Local Waste Materials in the Production of High-Performance and Self-Compacting Concrete
- 1 Australian College of Kuwait, Kuwait
Abstract
The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of using local waste materials on the properties of fresh and hardened high performance and self-compacting concrete. Crushed ceramic products and steel slag from electric-arc furnaces were used as partial replacements of traditional concrete raw materials in the production of self-compacting and high-performance concrete, which were obtained from local factories in Kuwait. Results have shown that using crushed ceramic products (in the form of powder and 3/8” aggregates) increases the rate of strength gain as the concrete cures, while using electric-arc furnace slag increases the compressive strength of the benchmark concrete mix.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2020.1.9
Copyright: © 2020 Sayed Mohamad Soleimani, Abdel Rahman Alaqqad, Ali Behbehani, Mhd Hazem Al-Swwaf and Najem Al-Matroud. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Self-Compacting Concrete
- High-Performance Concrete
- Waste Materials
- Ceramic Waste
- Electric-Arc Furnace Slag