Waste Materials and By-products in Concrete

by Siddique, Rafat

• ISBN13: 9783540742937
• ISBN10: 354074293X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The amount and variety of waste that humanity dumps in landfill sites is nothing short of a scandal, believes Rafat Siddique, of Deemed University in Patiala, India. Instead, we ought to be building new homes out of it! Siddique shows in this important book that many non-hazardous waste materials and by-products which are landfilled, can in fact be used in making concrete and similar construction materials.

Author Biography

Dr. Rafat Siddique is presently working as Professor & Head of Civil Engineering Department at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed University), Patiala, India. He obtained Ph.D. in 1993 from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India. He did post-doctoral work (for almost two years) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA, and been to University of Cergy Pontoise, France and INSA Rennes, France as Visiting Professor. He has more than 17 years of teaching, research, and educational administrative experience. His research interests are: Fiber-Reinforced Concrete, High-Volume Fly Ash Concrete, High-Volume Fly Ash Fiber Reinforced Concrete, High-Strength High-Performance Concrete, Use of Industrial By-Products in Cement-Based Materials, and Properties of Concrete at Elevated Temperature. He has authored two books, and more than 60 research papers.

Table of Contents

Ground granulated blast furnace slag	p. 1
Metakaolin	p. 41
Recycled/waste plastic	p. 93
Scrap tires	p. 121
Waste glass	p. 147
Coal fly ash	p. 177
Rice husk ash	p. 235
Municipal solid waste ash	p. 265
Wood ash	p. 303
Volcanic ash	p. 323
Cement kiln dust	p. 351
Foundry sand	p. 381
Index	p. 407
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