NON-CONVENTIONAL CONVERTING METHOD OF AN INERT RESIDUAL GLASSY MATERIAL INTO POZZOLANIC GLASS AS A TRADITIONAL CEMENT SUBSTITUTE TO PRODUCE STRENGTH-CONCRETE
Keywords:
residual glass, amber glass, Portland cement, pozzolanic properties, plasticizer, compressive strengthAbstract
The current work concerns the technical feasibility of partially replacing Portland cement, the production of which creates huge environmental problems globally, with the widely available waste glass in the process of manufacturing construction concrete. The transformation of glass from an inert material into one with pozzolanic properties similar to those of cement by fine grinding of the glass represents a suitable method to achieve this objective. The experiment described in this paper allowed the replacement of cement with pozzolanic glass in proportions of up to 36 %. Using for the first time recycled amber glass from post-consumer drinking bottles together with cement as binders, common fine and coarse aggregates, sodium lignosulfonate as a water-reducing superplasticizer, and water, four concrete versions were made, in which the compressive strength was increased up to 49.8 MPa corresponding to the use of 36 % cement replacement and at the end of the 56-day curing process. Also, flexural strength reached a maximum value of 11.4 MPa under the same conditions.References
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