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Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) for Infrastructure Elements
With a growing demand for new construction and the need to replace infrastructure stretched beyond its service life, society faces the problem of an ever-growing roduction of construction and demolition waste. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that two billion tons of new aggregate are produced each year in the United States. This demand is anticipated to increase to two and a half billion tons each year by 2020. With such a high demand for new aggregates, the concern arises of the depletion of current sources of natural aggregates and the availability of new sources. Similarly, construction waste produced in the United States is expected to increase. From building demolition alone, the annual production of construction waste is estimated to be 123 million tons (FHWA). Currently, this waste is most commonly disposed of in landfills. To address both the concern of increasing demand for new aggregates and increasing production of waste, many states have begun to recognize that a more sustainable solution exists in recycling waste concrete for use as aggregate in new concrete, or recycled concrete aggregate (RCA).
Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) for Infrastructure Elements
With a growing demand for new construction and the need to replace infrastructure stretched beyond its service life, society faces the problem of an ever-growing roduction of construction and demolition waste. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates that two billion tons of new aggregate are produced each year in the United States. This demand is anticipated to increase to two and a half billion tons each year by 2020. With such a high demand for new aggregates, the concern arises of the depletion of current sources of natural aggregates and the availability of new sources. Similarly, construction waste produced in the United States is expected to increase. From building demolition alone, the annual production of construction waste is estimated to be 123 million tons (FHWA). Currently, this waste is most commonly disposed of in landfills. To address both the concern of increasing demand for new aggregates and increasing production of waste, many states have begun to recognize that a more sustainable solution exists in recycling waste concrete for use as aggregate in new concrete, or recycled concrete aggregate (RCA).
Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) for Infrastructure Elements
S.J Coz (author) / H.K Khayat (author) / M Arezoumandi (author) / J Drury (author) / A Smithari (author) / A Steele (author)
2014
331 pages
Report
No indication
English
Construction Equipment, Materials, & Supplies , Civil Engineering , Highway Engineering , Construction Management & Techniques , Construction Materials, Components, & Equipment , Laboratory & Test Facility Design & Operation , Materials Sciences , Engineering Materials , Recycled concrete , Dynamic modulus , Laboratory experiments , Performance tests , Aggregate , Moisture sensitivity , Pavement construction , Highway construction , Indirect tensile test , Hot mix sphalt aggregate , Superpave mix design , Recommendations , Tables(Data) , Figures(Data) , Flow number , Recycled Concrete Aggregate(RCA)
Structural Behavior of Recycled Aggregate Concrete Elements
| Springer Verlag | 2017
| Springer Verlag | 2017
British Library Online Contents | 2005