{"title":"Impact of Recycled Fine Aggregate on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Green Mortar.","authors":"Xiaoqi Wan, Zhiyou Jia, Nannan Li, Hua Luo","doi":"10.3390/ma18030696","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through research that combined green environmental protection with the resource usage of solid waste, we explored more possibilities for mortar using recycled fine aggregate (RFA) as a material. In this work, natural fine aggregate (NFA) with different proportions of RFA in mortar was produced, while maintaining the same particle size distribution. Four types of mortar were produced, with replacement ratios of 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%, as well as a reference mortar type without RFA. A comprehensive evaluation of the mortar with different proportions was conducted, including its workability, density, capillary water absorption, compressive strength, and flexural strength. The results indicated that the compressive strength and flexural strength of mortar containing 50% RFA improve within 14 days. In addition, with increased RFA usage, the mortar's mechanical properties decreased. The data obtained from this study will help in the application of RFA in green mortar.</p>","PeriodicalId":18281,"journal":{"name":"Materials","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11820946/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Materials","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18030696","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Through research that combined green environmental protection with the resource usage of solid waste, we explored more possibilities for mortar using recycled fine aggregate (RFA) as a material. In this work, natural fine aggregate (NFA) with different proportions of RFA in mortar was produced, while maintaining the same particle size distribution. Four types of mortar were produced, with replacement ratios of 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%, as well as a reference mortar type without RFA. A comprehensive evaluation of the mortar with different proportions was conducted, including its workability, density, capillary water absorption, compressive strength, and flexural strength. The results indicated that the compressive strength and flexural strength of mortar containing 50% RFA improve within 14 days. In addition, with increased RFA usage, the mortar's mechanical properties decreased. The data obtained from this study will help in the application of RFA in green mortar.
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Materials (ISSN 1996-1944) is an open access journal of related scientific research and technology development. It publishes reviews, regular research papers (articles) and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Materials provides a forum for publishing papers which advance the in-depth understanding of the relationship between the structure, the properties or the functions of all kinds of materials. Chemical syntheses, chemical structures and mechanical, chemical, electronic, magnetic and optical properties and various applications will be considered.