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Flow-behaviour, microstructure, and strength properties of self-compacting concrete using waste copper slag as fine aggregate

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There is a lot of studies going on throughout the world in recycling and reusing waste materials from generated industries. A large portion of the research is devoted to developing cementitious materials that can be utilized instead of regular ordinary portland cement (OPC) and river sand. Many industrial waste by-products such as quartz, metakaolin, ground granulated furnace slag, silica fume and fly ash are being researched for use as cement or fine aggregate replacement in concrete to reduce carbon footprints associated with the building sector. Researchers have been very concerned about using waste copper slag (WCS) as construction materials since it is a non-toxic and innocuous industrial waste. It is expected that WCS would be substituted in concrete with river sand. This work aimed to develop and study the behavior of self-compacting concrete (SCC) properties on fresh SCC (slump flow, V-funnel. L-Box), mechanical, ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV), rebound hammer (N) at 7, 28, 56, and 90 days of curing age and microstructural properties at (28 days of curing) by replacing cement with fly ash (FA) at (17.85%) and river sand with waste copper slag (WCS) from 0 to 70%. From the results, it is seen that the combination of FA and WCS has shown a significant improvement in all flow and mechanical properties up to 40% WCS in SCC mixes.

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Chaitanya, B.K., Sivakumar, I. Flow-behaviour, microstructure, and strength properties of self-compacting concrete using waste copper slag as fine aggregate. Innov. Infrastruct. Solut. 7, 181 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41062-022-00766-3

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