Self-compacting concrete is a new high performance concrete with high ductility and segregation resistance. In recent years, construction material manufacturers have focused their attention on lightweight concrete and have strived to use lightweight concrete, if possible, in load-bearing parts of buildings. Concrete with both self-compacting and lightweight properties is favourable in this cont...

the chemical extraction of twenty-nine elements in a washing aggregate sludge, a clay-richsediment, a sewage sludge, the mixtures of these materials and the artificial lightweight aggregates (lwas)manufactured with them was determined by applying the optimized european community bureau of reference sequential extraction procedure in order to establish the effect of the thermal treatment on the ...

The type of lightweight aggregate and its volume fraction in a mix determine the density of lightweight concrete. Minimizing the density obviously requires a higher volume fraction, but this usually causes aggregates segregation in a conventional mixing process. This paper proposes a two-stage casting process to produce a lightweight concrete. This process involves placing lightweight aggregate...