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Shrinkage cracking of cement treated demolition waste as a road base

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This paper presents the shrinkage cracking characteristics of cement treated demolition waste as a road base layer, which was produced by using recycled crushed concrete and masonry aggregates from construction and demolition waste (CDW). The developed method to estimate the crack pattern was based on the structural properties of cement treated demolition waste measured in the laboratory and the average climatic conditions recorded in the Netherlands. The influences of four mixture variables (masonry content, moisture content, cement content and degree of compaction) on the crack pattern were investigated. Results show that the proposed estimation model can predict the crack pattern of cement treated demolition waste comparable to the crack spacing observed in the field. The masonry variation in CDW is a key factor to determine its shrinkage cracking characteristics.

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Abbreviations

CTB:

Cement treated base

CDW:

Construction and demolition waste

CTMiGr :

Cement treated recycled mix granulates with crushed recycled concrete and masonry

RCA:

Recycled crushed concrete aggregates

RMA:

Recycled crushed masonry aggregates

UCS:

Unconfined compressive strength

ITS:

Indirect tensile strength

CTE:

Coefficient of thermal expansion

C :

Cement content

W :

Water content

D :

Dry density

DC:

Degree of compaction

M :

Masonry content

t :

Curing time

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    D. X. Xuan

  2. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    D. X. Xuan, A. A. A. Molenaar & L. J. M. Houben

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Xuan, D.X., Molenaar, A.A.A. & Houben, L.J.M. Shrinkage cracking of cement treated demolition waste as a road base. Mater Struct 49, 631–640 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-015-0524-7

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