Reuse of Construction and Demolished Waste As Aggregates in Concrete: A Review
Reuse of Construction and Demolished Waste As Aggregates in Concrete: A Review
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Engineer, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology Nawabshah, 67480, Pakistan.
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Professor, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology Nawabshah, 67480, Pakistan.
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Lecturer, Department of Information Technology, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazir Abad, 67480, Pakistan.
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Assistant Professor, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science & Technology Nawabshah, 67480, Pakistan.
Abstract:-
This paper presents reviews of the authors for the use of construction and demolished waste of building in
concrete as recycled coarse aggregates. It is observed that from many years ago that the peoples of rural areas
shifted from villages/small towns to developed city centers. Due to this huge number of migration of peoples
creates problems accommodations and their basic needs. For the solution of accommodation and other problems
demolish old structures and construction will shift from horizontal to vertical space such as: high rise building.
However, demolition of old structures creates many issues and for the solution those issues on and only the
better option of reused of Construction & Demolition waste as in green concrete. The views of the several authors
and construction industry are the utilization by consuming it in new concrete in various ways. Replacement of fine
aggregates, coarse aggregates and even cement has been attempted. Green concrete is produced by replacing
natural coarse aggregates in 50% dosage with coarse aggregates obtained from demolished old concrete which
was suggested by the several authors. Use of recycled in concrete has not much effect on the basic properties
(specific gravity, water absorption, unit weight and density) of Recycled coarse aggregates comparison with
natural coarse aggregates. Therefore, the use of this waste in new concrete not only helps in reducing the waste
management issues but also help protecting the environment greatly.
Keywords: Old structures, Green Concrete, Demolishing and Construction Waste, Recycled Coarse
Aggregates, Waste management.,
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1. Introduction developed cities. Providing accommodation to these migrants
in limited available space led to the many problems. On the
other hand, unavailability of space for new construction
It is observed since last few decades that people particularly in developed cities of globe forced the
migrated from villages, towns and small cities to developed construction industry to shift from horizontal development to
cities. This migration of people in large quantum caused vertical development by demolishing the old structures. This
problem of accommodation and associated facilities in those technique has solved the problem to great extent but posed
the demolishing waste. Screening for cracked and water are few. Few of the properties of the concrete are listed
deteriorated particles followed by gradation is done. below for the purpose of flow of the reading.
Properties of the aggregates are evaluated before 1. Concrete grade
proportioning the same in new concrete in required dosage. 2. Concrete density
Properties and behavior of resulting concrete is also required 3. Workability
to be studied to ensure performance and serviceability of the 4. Strength (compressive, tensile and flexural)
structures during service life. 5. Deflection
Shifting of peoples from their home town to big cities 6. Cracking
for their better future and advanced facilities require 7. Durability and serviceability
accommodation and associated facilities in these big cities. 8. Creep
To meet the demand, old structures are being demolished and 9. Shrinkage
new ones are being constructed. Demolition of those 10. Response to unconventional loading
structures creates problem of waste and dumping of same. 11. Long term loading behavior
For the solution of all these issues reuse of it in new Serval scholars around the globe have made
construction is better option, the same is also proposed by attempts to study the properties of concrete made with
Oad and Memon [1] among several other scholars [6 -10, & recycled aggregates. Among them Qasrawi and Marie [2]
18]. The authors used waste recycled concrete blocks to used demolished concrete as RCA in casting of cylinders for
produce recycled coarse aggregates to be in concrete their research and studied the properties of recyclable
replacing NCA in 5% to 50% with increment of 10%. 54 concrete aggregates. Using the experimental results, the
specimens of NCA and 324 specimens of RCA were authors also coined out numerical expression for modulus of
prepared using w/c ratio in the range of 0.45 - 0.60. Equal elasticity of concrete using recyclable concrete aggregates.
number of specimens was cured for 7, 14 and 28 days. Basic Through the results the authors concluded that there is not
properties and compressive strength of the specimen were much difference between the basic properties of natural and
evaluated and found in good agreement with control recyclable aggregates except workability and water
specimen with tolerable reduction in the strength. absorption.
Kumutha and Vijai [4] used structural wastes in their The authors also observed that reduction in
research work to study the properties of recycled aggregates compressive strength of concrete cylinders made with
used in concrete with partial /full replacement of coarse and recyclable aggregates is from 5% to 25% and reduction in
fine aggregates. Replacement of coarse aggregates with tensile strength is up to 14% with reference to control
crushed concrete was used from 0% to 100% with increment specimen cast with all-natural coarse aggregates. The
of 20%. The same percentage replacement was used 0f fine research finding of Liu et al [14] were also similar except
aggregates with crushed bricks. They observed decreasing that they additionally studied peak strain and brittleness.
pattern in compressive strength, flexural strength and tensile They reported both the properties lower than the ordinary
strength except modulus of elasticity. concrete. Silva et al [15] also utilized the similar material to
Malešev et al [5] used crushed waste of laboratory in study the creep behavior of the concrete and found better
new concrete with replacement of 50% and 100% for both performance of the proposed concrete against creep.
fine and coarse aggregates. They used three types of Cervantes et al [16] used recycled concrete aggregates in
specimens in this study and prepared 99 samples for testing their research and determines the fracture and dry shrinkage
the basic properties. Based on the comparison of obtained properties of concrete [25].
results the authors concluded satisfactory performance of
recyclable concrete aggregates. 5.1 Gradation of Aggregates
Gradation of aggregates is another aspect which
5. Properties of Concrete ensures good strength of concrete and good serviceability of
the concrete. For better performance of the concrete,
There are many factors which affects the properties of aggregates should be well graded. This requires presence of
concrete at fresh and hardened state. Among the factors, mix
all standard sizes of the aggregates in required quantity,
ratio, type of cement, type of fine and coarse aggregates and
meeting the range specified by ASTM C-128 (American
Standards for Testing Methods). In well graded aggregates
concrete space between large aggregates is filled up by Table 1: Unit weight and density of natural and recycled
smaller aggregates and thus requires less cement paste to fill aggregates [21]
the remaining gap. Whereas, use of one size of aggregates Test Unit NCA RCA
results in poorly graded aggregates concrete which requires
more cement paste to fill the gap between them. Water Absorption % 1.8 3.92
To ensure proper gradation of the aggregates, sieve
analysis is used. For both natural coarse aggregates and Specific Gravity 2.56 2.43
recyclable aggregates from demolished concrete, sieve Table 2: Unit weight and density of natural and recycled
analysis is done following the standard procedure given by aggregates [21]
ASTM C-128 [19]. It is observed from the Figure 3 that the
Test Unit NAC RAC
gradation of both of the recyclable and natural aggregates is
within allowable limits specified by ASTM. This figure Unit Weight Kg / m³ 2193.70 1957.03
shows clearly that with negligible variation the pattern of
gradation is same for both types of the aggregates. Density Kg / m³ 1781.24 1685.14
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