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The Effect of Recycled Concrete Aggregates and Metakaolin on the Mechanical Properties of Self-Compacting Concrete Containing Nanoparticles

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Nowadays, finding appropriate solutions for reducing the environmental pollutions as a consequence of buildings is important. Using recycled concrete from demolished buildings as an aggregate in new concrete preparation can have a significant role in the sustainable development of the concrete industry; therefore, in this research work, the effect of employing different percentages (i.e., 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100%) of recycled concrete aggregates and the impact of using metakaolin as pozzolan in self-compacting concrete containing SiO2 nanoparticles were investigated. Hence, some properties of hardened self-compacting concrete such as compressive strength, tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, water absorption, density and apparent porosity of the samples were studied. The results demonstrate that construction of self-compacting concrete with complete replacement of recycled aggregates is possible. Although the strength of recycled self-compacting concretes is almost 11% less than the control samples, the use of metakaolin with optimum percentage as additives of cement leads to improvement in the recycled concretes properties.

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  1. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

    Aref Sadeghi-Nik

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Tabari University of Babol, Babol, Iran

    Javad Berenjian

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran

    Sahar Alimohammadi

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Omid Lotfi-Omran

  5. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Jouybar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jouybar, Iran

    Adel Sadeghi-Nik

  6. Department of Civil Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

    Mahmood Karimaei

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Sadeghi-Nik, A., Berenjian, J., Alimohammadi, S. et al. The Effect of Recycled Concrete Aggregates and Metakaolin on the Mechanical Properties of Self-Compacting Concrete Containing Nanoparticles. Iran J Sci Technol Trans Civ Eng 43 (Suppl 1), 503–515 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40996-018-0182-4

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