A review on the utilisation of quarry and ornamental stone industry fine by-products in the construction sector

M Galetakis, A Soultana - Construction and Building Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
Quarry dust and marble sludge, produced in large quantities from quarries, aggregates and
ornamental stone plants, constitute a severe environmental problem. The use of these …

Machine learning techniques and multi-scale models to evaluate the impact of silicon dioxide (SiO2) and calcium oxide (CaO) in fly ash on the compressive strength of …

DKI Jaf, PI Abdulrahman, AS Mohammed… - … and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Fly ash is a by-product almost found in coal power plants; it is available worldwide.
According to the hazardous impacts of cement on the environment, fly ash is known to be a …

Feasibility study on concrete made with substitution of quarry dust: A review

BN AL-Kharabsheh, M Moafak Arbili, A Majdi, J Ahmad… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Concrete mechanical properties could be improved through adding different materials at the
mixing stage. Quarry dust (QD) is the waste produced by manufactured sand machines and …

[HTML][HTML] ANN, M5P-tree and nonlinear regression approaches with statistical evaluations to predict the compressive strength of cement-based mortar modified with fly …

A Mohammed, S Rafiq, P Sihag, R Kurda… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aims to establish systematic multiscale models to predict the compressive
strength of cement mortar containing a high volume of fly ash (FA) and to be used by the …

Theoretical models to evaluate the effect of SiO2 and CaO contents on the long-term compressive strength of cement mortar modified with cement kiln dust (CKD)

AA Abdalla, A Salih Mohammed - Archives of Civil and Mechanical …, 2022 - Springer
Cement kiln dust (CKD) is a fine powder similar to Portland cement in appearance and
produced during grinding and burning of the raw material in the cement kiln. Large amounts …

Effect of shrinkage-reducing admixture and expansive agent on mechanical properties and drying shrinkage of Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC)

S Gao, Z Wang, W Wang, H Qiu - Construction and Building Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to reduce the drying shrinkage strain of traditional ECC and diminish the shrinkage
differences between concrete and PVA (PolyVinyl Alcohol) fiber, this paper designs …

Surrogate models to predict the long-term compressive strength of cement-based mortar modified with fly ash

A Abdalla, A Salih Mohammed - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
In the recent decade, supplementary cementing ingredients have become an essential part
of various strength ranges of concrete and cement-mortar mix design. Examples are natural …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of using granite dust as a component of concrete mixture

G Prokopski, V Marchuk, A Huts - Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
The article considers the possibility of significant improvement of technical properties of
granite concrete with the addition of granite dust. Concrete investigations were carried out in …

Characterizing and modeling the mechanical properties of the cement mortar modified with fly ash for various water‐to‐cement ratios and curing times

W Qadir, K Ghafor, A Mohammed - Advances in Civil …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite many research studies on the effect of the fly ash content (FA) on the mechanical
behavior of the cement mortar, there has not been an extensive study investigating the effect …

Systematic multiscale models to predict the effect of high-volume fly ash on the maximum compression stress of cement-based mortar at various water/cement ratios …

A Salih, S Rafiq, P Sihag, K Ghafor, W Mahmood… - Measurement, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in technology and environmental issues enable the building industry to use more
high-performance materials. In this analysis, the hardness of cement mortar with high …