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Environmental Impact Analysis of Alkali-Activated Concrete with Fiber Reinforcement

Auteur(s): ORCID (Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science—Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad 500078, Telangana, India)
ORCID (Department of Civil Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science—Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad 500078, Telangana, India)
ORCID (EMIB, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium)
Médium: article de revue
Langue(s): anglais
Publié dans: Infrastructures, , n. 4, v. 8
Page(s): 68
DOI: 10.3390/infrastructures8040068
Abstrait:

The scientific community is shifting its focus towards construction materials with a low carbon footprint, such as alkali-activated concrete (AAC). The present study conducts an environmental impact assessment using the cradle-to-grave approach to examine the environmental implications of three different types of ambient-cured AACs with varied combinations of precursors. The 28-day compressive strength values of the concrete mixes used for comparing environmental impacts vary from 35 to 55 MPa. Among these mixtures, the one with the least environmental impact is chosen for further impact assessment with the inclusion of fibers. Three different fiber reinforced AAC mixes containing 0.3% steel, glass, and polypropylene fibers, respectively by volume of AAC, are used in this study. The findings show that Portland Cement concrete has 86% and 34% higher impacts than AAC on the ecosystem and human health, respectively. In the production of AAC, sodium silicate is found to have the highest impact on the environment, in the range of 30–50% of the total impact. Among the various fibers used, glass fibers have the highest impact, which is 12% and 13% higher than that of the plain AAC mix, on the ecosystem and human health, respectively.

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  • Publié(e) le:
    22.04.2023
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    10.05.2023
 
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