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New insights into the contribution of quartz powder byproduct from manufactured sand to the performance of cementitious materials

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Quartzite stone powder (QP) is a mining and constructional byproduct that causes severe environmental problems. In this study, to realize its resourceful utilization, cement was partially substituted with four types of QP characterized with different fineness in preparation of an environment-friendly cementitious material. Mechanical properties, hydration heat releasing, hydration products, and porosity of blended materials were presented. The mechanism of the hydration process and microstructure evolution was discussed. The results show that the fineness of QP has a strong impact on the strength development as well as the hydration reaction. The addition of fine QP (600 and 800 m2 kg−1) accelerates the hydration of cement by providing more nucleation sites for hydration products, and refines the pore structure via filling effect. Moreover, the incorporation of QP in binders could reduce cement usage and bring sustainability and economic benefits in reducing the energy consumption, carbon emission and cost of cementitious materials.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFC3803400), National Natural Science Foundation of China (51978505, 52278270), Key Technologies R&D Program of CNBM (2021HX0506) and Opening Foundation of Research and Development Center of Transport Industry of New Materials, Technologies Application for Highway Construction and Maintenance of Offshore Areas (Fujian Communications planning & design institute Co., LTD). We would like to thank Dr. Long Yu for the XRD analysis and anonymous reviewers whose suggestions have significantly improved the quality of this manuscript.

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    Jiangfeng Long, Ken Yang, Shunfeng Wang, Linglin Xu, Zhenghong Yang & Kai Wu

  2. Research and Development Center of Transportation Industry of New Material, Technologies Application for Highway Construction and Maintenance of Offshore Areas, Fuzhou, 350103, China

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JL contributed to methodology, investigation, data curation, writing-original draft, and review and editing. KY contributed to methodology, data curation, and investigation. SW contributed to investigation and methodology. LX performed conceptualization, investigation, writing-original draft, and review and editing. ZY performed conceptualization and supervision. CY performed investigation and data curing. JL contributed to conceptualization and methodology. KW contributed to conceptualization, supervision, investigation, writing-original draft, and review and editing. LZ performed conceptualization and supervision.

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Long, J., Yang, K., Wang, S. et al. New insights into the contribution of quartz powder byproduct from manufactured sand to the performance of cementitious materials. J Therm Anal Calorim 148, 4105–4117 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-023-12008-4

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