Ground granulated blast furnace slag, fly ash and zeolite as cement replacement materials

2009-01-01
Cement incontrovertibly, is the major and the most widely used binder in the structural concrete. However, the production of cement requires high energy and concedes great amounts of contaminants. From both economical and environmental point of view incorporation of wastes or by-products from various industries in the production of cementitious materials, is an increasing trend in concrete technology. This article investigates the use of ground granulated blast furnace slag, obtained by grinding the by-product of iron industry; fly ash, a waste product of thermal power plants, and zeolite, a natural mineralogical material having pozzolanic behavior, as cement replacement materials. The effects of ground granulated blast furnace slag, fly ash and zeolite replacement by cement on compressive strength of mortars were investigated. For this purpose a control specimen by using only cement as binder and 27 different mortar mixes with 10. 20 and 30% replaced with cement, by weight, were produced. Three 50x50x50 mm cubic specimens were cast for each mix. In order to set forth the discrepancies in different standards the mortar mixtures were prepared following three different criteria: constant water/binder ratio, constant flow and constant volume. The compressive strength of each mix was determined at 7th, 28th and 90th days. The results showed that all of the cement replacement materials exhibited significant contribution on compressive strength of mortar specimens. Therefore, utilization of waste products in cement materials caused not only technical but also economical and ecological advantages.
1st International Conference on Civil Engineering - Towards a Better Environment, CE 2009 and the 4th International Conference on the Concrete Future, CF 2009 (17-19 June 2009)

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Citation Formats
S. Keskin and İ. Ö. Yaman, “Ground granulated blast furnace slag, fly ash and zeolite as cement replacement materials,” Coimbra; Portugal, 2009, p. 51, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84902462758&origin=inward.