{"title":"Concrete with Accelerated Naturally Carbonated Recycled Concrete Aggregates","authors":"","doi":"10.47485/2832-9384.1057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47485/2832-9384.1057","url":null,"abstract":"Recycled concrete tends to be increasingly investigated with respect to the environmental needs, such as resource depletion, circularity and lack of landfill disposal spaces. A naturally accelerated carbonation procedure by using atmospheric CO2 concentration level and a cyclic wetting and drying of the recycled concrete aggregates was applied. A two stages carbonation process was applied. The recycled concretes exhibited similar mechanical properties of the reference concrete or even better durability as compared to the reference concrete prepared with natural rock aggregates. The carbonation of the outer layer of the recycled concrete aggregates was achieved with a simple method that can be widely applied and is sufficient to significantly increase the properties of the recycled concrete aggregates.","PeriodicalId":372397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials and Polymer Science","volume":"36 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141649052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Durability and Recycling of Rubber Concrete","authors":"","doi":"10.47485/2832-9384.1054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47485/2832-9384.1054","url":null,"abstract":"The addition of crumb rubber particles causes a decrease in the compressive strength of concrete. This is particularly observed beyond 3.6% crumb rubber addition with respect to the total weight of the aggregates. The accelerated carbonation also indicates an increase in the CO2 ingress, which is partially due to the low quality of the interface rubber particles-cementitious matrix. On the other hand, the water sealant properties, the chloride penetration resistance and the resistance to freeze and thaw exhibit an increase. This latter feature is mainly due to the implemented ductility of the crumb rubber concrete, which can better adapt to the thermal stress that arises during the freezing action. Furthermore, the addition of recycled crumb rubber up to 25% of the aggregate weight to concrete positively affect the mechanical as well as the durability performance.","PeriodicalId":372397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials and Polymer Science","volume":"16 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140984348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Uncertainty of Reusable Building Components/Materials\u0000A Subsidiary of Circular Economy in the Africa Construction Sector: The Issue of\u0000 Affordable Housing in Kenya","authors":"","doi":"10.47485/2832-9384.1053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47485/2832-9384.1053","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing interest in the adaptation of circular economy approaches in the construction sector, for developing African countries like Kenya with an increase in construction activities leading to more generation of construction wastes. The approach of circularity presents an alternative to reuse these construction or demolition wastes thereby lowering environmental risks and providing for a lower price for building components/materials required for affordable building projects. However, there is little, or no information on these reusable building components/materials, which lowers the confidence by construction stakeholders in using them. No information on its possible new life longevity (durability), its possible maintenance budget, and no means of enabling a design team to plan for its acquisition (accessibility) in a design project. This paper adopted a review of previous literature on these topics to search for possible solutions to the research questions, of which some literature provided only a list of requirements needed to give a level of information to reusable building elements. The paper went further to provide proposals for an information catalogue that would enable the insertion of reusable building elements’ Indicators of service (availability, reliability, and maintainability) obtainable from experience with the elements. Also, a format for a maintenance budget plan would be required during the new service life of the reused element. And a means of simulation using the Monte Carlo simulation tool to obtain reliable viability of access to reusable building elements in a transitional building in its design stage. These proposals would have to be put into practice to ascertain their effectiveness, meanwhile, other areas of further studies are provided in the paper.","PeriodicalId":372397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials and Polymer Science","volume":"62 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141016669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}