Development of sustainable alternative building materials from quarry dust

Ehud Cohen, Gabriela Bar Nes, Alva Peled

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Abstract

The main goal of our work is to develop an alternative building material based on “zero waste” objective, thus creating commercially valuable products from materials that are otherwise high-volume waste products. Fine dolomitic quarry dust is a waste product manufactured in several millions of cubic tons each year in the mining industry of Israel. Our study examines a sustainable and useful solution to use this quarry dust (QD) as a part of fly ash based geopolymeric systems. Mechanical, thermal and chemical properties were examined and analyzed.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationNon-Traditional Cement and Concrete
EditorsSarka Nenadalova, Vlastimil Bilek, Zbynik Kersner, Hana Simonova, Stanislav Seitl
Pages181-188
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018
Event6th International Conference Non-Traditional Cement and Concrete, 2017 - Brno, Czech Republic
Duration: 19 Jun 201722 Jun 2017

Publication series

NameKey Engineering Materials
Volume761 KEM

Conference

Conference6th International Conference Non-Traditional Cement and Concrete, 2017
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityBrno
Period19/06/1722/06/17

Keywords

  • Alkaline activation
  • Dolomite
  • Fly ash
  • Geopolymer
  • Quarry dust

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Materials Science
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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