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A Review on the Use of SCMs and Alternative By-Products in Eco-Efficient Concrete

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Building for the Future: Durable, Sustainable, Resilient (fib Symposium 2023)

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Abstract

The concern about global warming and the environmental impact of human activities has greatly increased in recent years. The construction sector has an important role to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, which includes the Portland cement industry.

In the scope of the sustainability of the concrete sector, the addition of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to concrete mixtures has been studied in the last decades, aiming at reducing the content of Portland cement, without impairing concrete’s mechanical and durability properties. On the contrary, it has been proved that low carbon concrete guarantees similar or improved mechanical performance and enhanced durability, assuring higher sustainability.

More recently, since some traditional SCMs are no longer available in developed countries, mainly due to environmental restrictions, several other by-products from industries in great expansion (e.g., metallurgic, ceramic, paper, and glass) are being studied as possible alternatives to traditional SCMs.

This paper presents a review on SCMs and alternative by-products that can potentially be used as Portland cement replacement, leading to eco-efficient concrete mixtures. In addition, few of those alternative by-products were characterized as a part of an experimental program in progress. The results are presented, and the main conclusions are drawn.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the FCT (the Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology) for the Doctoral Grant with the reference 2021.05856.BD awarded to the first author, and Celbi, Duritcast, Maltha Glass Recycling Portugal, Novarroz, Prilux, The Navigator Company, Valente Marques and Vidrexport for providing the waste by-products for this study. The work is also part of the research carried out at CERIS research centre in IST (University of Lisbon) and has been funded by FCT in the framework of project UIDB/04625/2020.

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    Eliana Soldado, Hugo Costa, Ricardo do Carmo & Eduardo Júlio

  2. Coimbra Polytechnic-ISEC, Coimbra, Portugal

    Hugo Costa & Ricardo do Carmo

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Soldado, E., Costa, H., do Carmo, R., Júlio, E. (2023). A Review on the Use of SCMs and Alternative By-Products in Eco-Efficient Concrete. In: Ilki, A., Çavunt, D., Çavunt, Y.S. (eds) Building for the Future: Durable, Sustainable, Resilient. fib Symposium 2023. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 349. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32519-9_101

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