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Using Fly Ash Wastes for the Development of New Building Materials with Improved Compressive Strength

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MATERIALS
卷 15, 期 2, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma15020644

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fly ash; alkali activated materials; properties; capitalization

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  1. TUIASI [GI/P14/2021]

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Fly ash wastes can be effectively used in concrete formulation as a replacement for cement, by undergoing an alkali activation process. The study investigated the relationship between the processing conditions, particle characteristics, and compressive strength values of the concrete. The results showed that the processed fly ash can be a suitable potential building material, solving waste disposal issues and reducing cement consumption.
Fly ash wastes (silica, aluminum and iron-rich materials) could be smartly valorized by their incorporation in concrete formulation, partly replacing the cement. The necessary binding properties can be accomplished by a simple procedure: an alkali activation process, involving partial hydrolysis, followed by gel formation and polycondensation. The correlations between the experimental fly ash processing conditions, particle characteristics (size and morphology) and the compressive strength values of the concrete prepared using this material were investigated by performing a parametric optimization study to deduce the optimal processing set of conditions. The alkali activation procedure included the variation of the NaOH solutions concentration (8-12 M), temperature values (25-65 degrees C) and the liquid/solid ratio (1-3). The activation led to important modifications of the crystallography of the samples (shown by powder XRD analysis), their morphologies (seen by SEM), particle size distribution and Blaine surface values. The values of the compressive strength of concrete prepared using fly ash derivatives were between 16.8-22.6 MPa. Thus, the processed fly ash qualifies as a proper potential building material, solving disposal-associated problems, as well as saving significant amounts of cement consumed in concrete formulation.

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