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Effects of the lithologic character of manufactured sand on properties of concrete

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Six representative parent rocks of sand, including limestone, quartzite, gneisses, granite, Basalt and Marble were selected to conduct a systematical research on the effects of various lithologies of manufactured sand on the workability, mechanism properties, volume stability and durability of manufactured-sand concrete. The experimental results show that the strength of manufactured-sand concrete is slightly higher than that of natural-sand concrete. Furthermore, substituting 15% cement of the concrete mixture with equal quantity of the six different lithology stone powder respectively, the data indicated that they can improve the concrete’s workability, postpone the plastic cracking time, enhance the anti-cracking grade, and have no obvious effect on the properties of antifreeze and sulfate attack resistance but reduce the capability to resist chloride ion penetration. Moreover, the differences in concrete’s workability, mechanism properties, volume stability and durability caused by various lithologies of manufactured sand and stone powder were not significant and the influence of lithology variety on the macro properties of concrete could be neglected eventually.

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  1. Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Communication, Beijing, 100088, China

    Jiliang Wang  (王稷良), Zhifeng Yang & Yihan Liu

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Funded by the National West Communication Construction Technology Project (No. 2013 318 354 190)

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Wang, J., Yang, Z. & Liu, Y. Effects of the lithologic character of manufactured sand on properties of concrete. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 29, 1213–1218 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-014-1070-9

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