Abstract This study investigates the effect of replacement recycled concrete as coarse aggregates using Densified Mixture Design Algorithm Method (DMDA) in unconfined behavior. DMDA was applied to produce with least void. Compressive strength, flexural strength and split tensile tests were conducted on 7-, 14-, 28- 56-day old specimens. test results showed that specimens 20, 30, 40% RCA replace...

High Strength Concrete (HSC) is defined as concrete that meets special combination of performance and uniformity requirements that cannot be achieved routinely using conventional constituents and normal mixing, placing, and curing procedures. It is a highly complex material, which makes modeling its behavior a very difficult task. This paper aimed to show possible applicability of Neural Networ...

In this paper we present a concept of the aggregate, which is based on the “cellular” principle. Besides, some concrete application cases (in Ethernet network) and potentialities of the aggregate are presented.

the present work has been performed to eliminate sewage dry sludge of alborze city wastewater treatment plant by using them as fine aggregate in concrete. on this basis, at first the selected dry sludge was analyzed for xrd and xrf for crystalline phases and chemical composition, respectively. the results showed that more than 50% of the sludge is formed of sio2 and it had more than 20% organic...

Experiments have been conducted to study the effect of addition of fly ash, copper slag, and steel and polypropylene fibres on compressive strength of concrete and to determine the hierarchical order of influence of the mix variables in affecting the strength using cluster analysis experimentally. While fly ash and copper slag are used for partial replacement of cement and fine aggregate, respe...

At highly congested reinforcement regions, which is common at beam-column joint area, clear spacing between parallel bars becomes less than maximum normal aggregate size (20mm) which has not been addressed in any design code and specifications. Limited clear spacing between parallel bars (herein after thin cover) is one of the causes which affect anchorage performance. In this study, an experim...

Rapid increase in construction activities leads to active shortage of conventional construction materials due to various regions. Concrete is most widely used construction material. Cement, sand & granite stone are the constituents of the concrete. Researches were researching for cheaper materials that can be used as substitute for these materials. In this context an experimental study was carr...

This study used two types of Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCAs) with the same original virgin aggregate, but with different amounts of residual mortars. To verify that the mechanical properties of the concrete were affected by changing the unit volume of residual mortar, fresh mortar, and total mortar of the concrete, a series of paving concrete mixes were made using a modified equivalent mort...