Journal
JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 379, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.120802
Keywords
Red mud; SCC; Mechanical properties; Durability; Corrosion
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- Faculty Strategic Pilot Grant
- University of Newcastle, Australia
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Red mud is a hazardous waste material produced during alkaline leaching of bauxite in the Bayer process. This study proposed the use of red mud to replace fly ash in self-compacting concrete (SCC) and the influences of red mud on fresh and hardened properties, and durability performances of SCC were studied. The fresh concrete results show that red mud had a slight negative impact on the fresh properties of SCC. The hardened concrete results show that the mechanical strength of concrete increased with increasing of red mud content. The half-cell potential test results indicated that red mud had a significant effect on restraining the corrosion process in SCC. Compared to the control sample, the red mud samples suffered less corrosion. Cracks associated with corrosion of reinforcement were observed in RMCO and RMC100 samples after 28 day accelerated corrosion test. The ICPMS results showed that there's no significant difference in metal elements among the solutions regardless the red mud content in concrete.The relative corrosion rate test results suggested that red mud can suppress the corrosion current. The SCC samples consisting 75% red mud performed the best resistance to corrosion according to the results of half-cell potentials and mass loss of rebar.
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