Recycled concrete, a solution for fine and coarse raw material for new concrete
- DOI
- 10.2991/icsmme-15.2015.51How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Recycled, Concrete, Aggregates
- Abstract
Solid waste generation of Hydraulic Concrete is a new polluting of the earth. The most produced material in the world is the Portland Cement (PC), but its disadvantage lies on its requiring fossil fuels, as well as the COx discharge to the atmosphere. Re-use of Hydraulic Concrete waste abates simultaneously a number of problems, as dumping of solid waste and COx compounds into the environment; affectation of quarry sand and gravel stones, as well as endemic flora and fauna living in them; storm-water runoff by the inability of strata to filter demolished concrete contained in landfills. The use of crushed aggregates coming from Hydraulic Concrete demolition is used to generate Recycled Concrete, a material that can abate costs, diminish pollution, reduce the cost of building, and protect quarries from unnecessary exploitation. Nonetheless, development of Recycled Concrete faces the challenge of finding optimal designs to achieve the highest mechanical performance under static and dynamic stresses, the need to produce concretes less susceptible to carbonation, and therefore, to corrosion of reinforcing steel that protect with the concrete core, aside from waterproof and dense concrete.
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- © 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - W. Martinez Molina AU - E.M. Alonso Guzman AU - H.L. Chavez Garcia AU - C. Lara Gomez AU - F.M. Gonzalez Valdez AU - A.A. Torres Acosta AU - J.T. Perez Quiroz AU - H. Hernandez Barrios AU - W. Martinez Alonso PY - 2015/11 DA - 2015/11 TI - Recycled concrete, a solution for fine and coarse raw material for new concrete BT - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Structural, Mechanical and Material Engineering PB - Atlantis Press SP - 211 EP - 214 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsmme-15.2015.51 DO - 10.2991/icsmme-15.2015.51 ID - MartinezMolina2015/11 ER -