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Efficiency of Jarosite in Pavement Quality Concrete

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In recent years, zinc industry waste jarosite as a partial replacement of cement for high-strength concrete manufacturing has gained importance. Hence, the current study attempts to better understand the jarosite's efficiency in pavement quality concrete. Two different approaches based on compressive strength-to-water cementitious ratio relation and flexural strength-to-water cementitious ratio relation at different replacement levels of jarosite were considered to evaluate jarosite's efficiency in pavement quality concrete. It was observed that both the water-to-cementitious ratio and the dose of jarosite significantly affect the strength characteristics of the concrete. The results showed that the optimum quantity of water for the jarosite blended concrete could be achieved well by the difference in water-to-cementitious ratio (Δw) based efficiency factor concept considered in the study. Further, based on the achieved efficiency factors, it was found that the jarosite is more efficient in terms of flexural strength when compared to compressive strength.

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Authors sincerely acknowledge their sincere thanks to Vishal Kumar Singh, Debashish Sahoo, and Nidhi Srivastav from Zinc Smelter Debari Plant, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, for helping us out while procuring jarosite waste and taking us to the site plant to understand the generation process. The authors also sincerely acknowledge their sincere thanks to the quality improvement program of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India, for providing the scholarship to one of the authors for pursuing this research at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.

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Saini, S.K., Ransinchung, G.D. & Kumar, P. Efficiency of Jarosite in Pavement Quality Concrete. Int. J. Pavement Res. Technol. 16, 1364–1374 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42947-022-00202-w

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