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Henrique Comba Gomes, Elvys Dias Reis, Rogério Cabral de Azevedo, Conrado de Souza Rodrigues and Flávia Spitale Jacques Poggiali
The construction industry is essential to the development and economy, but is also the largest generator of construction and demolition waste (CDW). While efforts are made to minimize such generation, the construction industry has been developing applica...
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Pavels Tihomirovs, Patricia Kara De Maeijer and Aleksandrs Korjakins
Waste glass is an endless issue for the majority of the countries in the world with a linear economy of usage of materials. Demolition waste is counted as part of total construction and demolition waste (CDW). Even today, there are some statistical probl...
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Saied Kashkash, Oliver Czoboly and Zoltan Orban
Large quantities of construction and demolition waste are generated annually, and in many parts of the world, it is disposed of in landfills. Utilizing this waste to produce coarse aggregates for concrete production offers a potentially sustainable appro...
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Mohsen Shamsaei, Alan Carter and Michel Vaillancourt
Construction and demolition waste (CDW) materials account for a considerable part of waste materials throughout the world. As these materials are not usually recycled, reusing them in construction projects is of major significance. In this study, recycle...
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Ashfaque Ahmed Jhatial, Iveta Nováková and Eirik Gjerløw
Alternative to traditional concrete, sustainable concrete reduces cement content, waste management issues, and CO2 emissions. To achieve sustainable concrete, waste materials can be used as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to partially replace...
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Jan Kortmann and Stefan Minar
Fibre-reinforced composites are used in many industries. In the construction industry, for example, the building material carbon concrete is increasingly being used successfully. Although the demand for fibre-reinforced composites and fibre-reinforced pl...
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Shahrokh Maalek, Reza Maalek and Bahareh Maalek
This paper examined the opportunities of composite double-layer grid superstructures in short-to-medium span bridge decks. It was empirically shown here that a double-layer grid deck system in composite action with a thin layer of two-way reinforced conc...
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Ali Ashrafian, Naser Safaeian Hamzehkolaei, Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra and Maziar Yazdani
There has been a significant increase in construction and demolition (C&D) waste due to the growth of cities and the need for new construction, raising concerns about the impact on the environment of these wastes. By utilising recycled C&D waste,...
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Ali Kheirbek, Ali Ibrahim, Majed Asaad and George Wardeh
A huge volume of waste is generated by natural and human-made disasters and by rapid urbanization that leads to the demolition of structures reaching the end of their service life. Using recycled aggregates in concrete producing reduces environmental pol...
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Ali S. Alqarni, Husain Abbas, Khattab M. Al-Shwikh and Yousef A. Al-Salloum
Worldwide the concrete industry has started embracing the utilization of recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs) resulting from demolition and construction waste as full or partial substituents in the production of high-strength concrete (HSC) due to their e...
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