Recycled Red-Clay Ceramic Construction and Demolition Waste for Mortars Production
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 22, Issue 3
Abstract
Recycled aggregates may make an important contribution toward decreasing the adverse consequences of the production and the dumping of construction and demolition waste (CDW) on the environment. The results of the experimental research work carried out at Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico and Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil are presented in this article. Normalized laboratory tests to assess the performance of standard mortars were used to demonstrate the technical feasibility of recycling the waste produced by the ceramics industry and from the demolition of red-clay bricks or tiles to produce mortars with less/no consumption of natural aggregates. Results are very promising up to a replacement ratio of sand with ceramic waste of at least 20%. The paper presents useful data for the ceramics industry, builders and mortar manufacturing companies in terms of minimizing the impact of CDW and using eco-efficient materials.
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Acknowledgments
The experimental work presented in this paper was performed in LNEC, the Portuguese National Laboratory of Civil Engineering in Lisbon, as part of a Master’s thesis prepared within the Master’s in Construction course of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon. The writers also gratefully acknowledge the support of the ICIST Research Institute of IST, Technical University of Lisbon and of FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology).
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Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 22 • Issue 3 • March 2010
Pages: 236 - 244
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Received: Jan 3, 2008
Accepted: Oct 29, 2009
Published online: Feb 12, 2010
Published in print: Mar 2010
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