Life cycle assessment of recycled aggregate concrete on its environmental impacts: A critical review

W **ng, VWY Tam, KN Le, JL Hao, J Wang - Construction and Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) is expected to a sustainable solution to alter the virgin
aggregate concrete (VAC) in structural use. While it is able to address environmental issues …

Modification of recycled aggregate and conservation and application of recycled aggregate concrete: A review

L Wu, Z Sun, Y Cao - Construction and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Accumulated construction and demolition waste (CDW) can occupy much land and cause
environmental pollution. To dispose of CDW and slow down the depletion of natural …

Pathways towards sustainable concrete

D Coffetti, E Crotti, G Gazzaniga, M Carrara… - Cement and Concrete …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper covers a wide range of alternative strategies to improve the sustainability of
concrete. It firstly considers the relatively easy application of the latest technologies to …

Influence of bonded mortar on recycled aggregate concrete properties: A review

F Muhammad, M Harun, A Ahmed, N Kabir… - … and Building Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
The mortar attached to recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) surface significantly influences
the resulting concrete properties due to the high porosity, low strength, and high water …

Study of the influence of seawater and sea sand on the mechanical and microstructural properties of concrete

D Pan, SA Yaseen, K Chen, D Niu, CKY Leung… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the continuous increase of infrastructural construction worldwide, the supply of river
sand and fresh water for making concrete encountered enormous shortage, especially for …

Characterization of the mechanical properties of eco-friendly concrete made with untreated sea sand and seawater based on statistical analysis

M Guo, B Hu, F **ng, X Zhou, M Sun, L Sui… - Construction and building …, 2020 - Elsevier
Natural sea sand and seawater, as alternative sustainable materials for mitigating
environmental pollution and resource shortage of traditional concrete production using river …

A recycled aggregate concrete high-rise building: Structural performance and embodied carbon footprint

J **ao, C Wang, T Ding, A Akbarnezhad - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Recycled aggregate concrete structures are advocated widely as sustainable structures
mainly due to numerous benefits of concrete recycling including reducing the need of …

Use of recycled concrete aggregates in production of green cement-based concrete composites: A review

N Makul, R Fediuk, M Amran, AM Zeyad, G Murali… - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) are used in existing green building composites to
promote the environmental preservation of natural coarse aggregates (NCA). Besides, the …

Mechanical properties and microstructure of basalt fiber-reinforced recycled concrete

C Zhang, Y Wang, X Zhang, Y Ding, P Xu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
This study focuses on the mechanical properties and microstructure of a new recycled-
concrete incorporated with basalt fiber (BF). For the BF-reinforced recycled concrete …

Bio-mineralized self-healing recycled aggregate concrete for sustainable infrastructure

RA Khushnood, ZA Qureshi, N Shaheen… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Various carriers have been investigated by researchers to introduce bacteria inside the
concrete however, factors such as local availability, cost and long-term protection of …