Owing to the favorable properties of self-compacting concrete and light-weight aggregate
concrete, the development of self-compacting concrete is an engineering excellence …

LECA is the abbreviation of lightweight expanded clay aggregate. LECA is produced from
special plastic clay with no or very little content of lime. The clay is dried, heated and burned …

Recent researches reported that expanded clay aggregate in concrete leads to a notable
reduction in strength properties. Nevertheless, the impact response of PEAFC comprising …

Geopolymer Concrete (GPC) is a unique and sustainable building material that has the
potential to be transformed into a self-compacted lightweight composite for industrial …

There is a growing concern on lightweight aggregates (LWA) for recycling of waste
materials: this manufacturing technology is considered a flexible tool to make it possible the …

The use of expanded clay aggregate (ECA) for developing lightweight concrete results in
strength-reduction properties. However, the ECA-based concrete strength properties can be …

Expanded clay as a high-quality raw material to produce ceramsite is rapidly consumed in
the past decades. A novel and green process to prepare the ultra-lightweight ceramsite …

Concrete is the most utilized man-made building material and its global production reaching
25 billion tons per year represents a huge burden on our environment. Unsurprisingly, a lot …

This study aims to unravel the potential of Pakistan in the domain of artificial lightweight
expanded clay aggregates (ALECA) and investigate the influence of pellets size, firing …

Structural optimization is a broad term in the construction sector, whereby material efficiency,
as well as cost effectiveness of structures, are optimized. In concrete technology, high …