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Strength and durability performance of rice straw ash-based concrete: an approach for the valorization of agriculture waste

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In the last few decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization have commenced along with the increase in the rate of population. The rate of construction activities has increased extensively to meet the demand of inhabitants where concrete can play a significant role. In this regard, cement is an essential ingredient of concrete and needs a substantial quantity of energy and raw material for its production. The present study focuses on integrating rice straw ash (RSA), a by-product of the open-field burning of rice straw, as a substitution material for cement in concrete. Since the study highlighted the pozzolanic behavior of RSA as identified by characterization techniques, thus, RSA has been incorporated at different proportions (2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10%) to examine its influence on mechanical and durability characteristics after 7, 28 and 56 days of curing. Further, analytical assessments such as mathematical analysis of mechanical and durability properties, cost analysis and global warming potential for each concrete mix have also been carried out for the practical viability of RSA-based concrete. The results of this study revealed that an 8% substitution of RSA provides a better-optimized performance and can be considered for construction activities.

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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [M Patel], upon reasonable request.

Abbreviations

RSA:

Rice straw ash

OPC:

Ordinary Portland cement

w/c ratio:

Water–cement ratio

PM:

Particulate matter

GHGs:

Greenhouse gasses

SCMs:

Supplementary cementitious materials

CTM:

Compression testing machine

RCP:

Rapid chloride penetration

ISA:

Initial surface absorption

CS:

Capillary suction

XRF:

X-ray fluorescence

SEM:

Scanning electron microscopy

EDX:

Energy-dispersive X-ray

XRD:

X-ray diffraction

FWHM:

Full width at half maximum

TGA:

Thermal gravimetric analysis

FTIR:

Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

GWP:

Global warming potential

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr. Neeraj Bhanot (Scientist, CSIR–National Physical Laboratory, India) and Prof. Bimlesh Kumar (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) for providing their guidance and insights which helped us in improving the quality of the research work.

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This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

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RS contributed to investigation, resources, data curation and visualization, writing–original draft, and MP contributed to conceptualization, methodology, resources, data curation and visualization, writing, review and editing.

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Singh, R., Patel, M. Strength and durability performance of rice straw ash-based concrete: an approach for the valorization of agriculture waste. Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 20, 9995–10012 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-022-04554-5

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