Life cycle assessment of recycled aggregate concrete on its environmental impacts: A critical review

W Xing, VWY Tam, KN Le, JL Hao, J Wang - Construction and Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) is expected to a sustainable solution to alter the virgin
aggregate concrete (VAC) in structural use. While it is able to address environmental issues …

Environmental benefit assessment of steel slag utilization and carbonation: A systematic review

L Li, TC Ling, SY Pan - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid increase in steel slag generation globally highlights the urgent need to manage
the disposal or utilization processes. In addition to conventional landfill disposal …

Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost analysis of recycled solid waste materials in highway pavement: A review

J Li, F Xiao, L Zhang, SN Amirkhanian - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Highway pavement construction with recycled solid waste materials had become a
sustainable topic of great concern recently, due to the potential environmental and economic …

A review of life cycle assessment of recycled aggregate concrete

Y Zhang, W Luo, J Wang, Y Wang, Y Xu… - Construction and Building …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recycled aggregate has emerged expecting to address raw materials shortage in
construction sector by converting waste concrete into resource. Many researchers adopted …

Behavior of steel slag aggregate in mortar and concrete-A comprehensive overview

AM Rashad - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural aggregate is commonly used in mortar and concrete. In some places in the world,
the natural aggregate may no longer reach the construction demands in terms of quality …

Environmental evaluation of green concretes versus conventional concrete by means of LCA

J Turk, Z Cotič, A Mladenovič, A Šajna - Waste management, 2015 - Elsevier
A number of green concrete mixes having similar basic properties were evaluated from the
environmental point of view by means of the Life Cycle Assessment method, and compared …

[HTML][HTML] Railway ballast material selection and evaluation: A review

Y Guo, J Xie, Z Fan, V Markine, DP Connolly… - … and Building Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The properties of railway ballast material are affected by the local geologies and climatic
environments from which the parent rock is sourced. These factors can make it challenging …

Electric arc furnace slag and its use in hydraulic concrete

I Arribas, A Santamaría, E Ruiz, V Ortega-López… - … and Building Materials, 2015 - Elsevier
Electric arc furnace oxidizing slag (EAFS) is a by-product of the steelmaking industry,
generated after the melting and the preliminary acid refining of liquid steel. It is a stony …

A comparative life cycle assessment on recycled concrete aggregates modified by accelerated carbonation treatment and traditional methods

Y Pu, L Li, X Shi, Q Wang, A Abomohra - Waste Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Recycling of construction and demolition wastes contributes to achieve carbon summit and
carbon neutrality early in the construction industry. Accelerated carbonation is a promising …

Use of coarse recycled aggregates from precast concrete rejects: Mechanical and durability performance

D Soares, J De Brito, J Ferreira, J Pacheco - Construction and Building …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of an experimental campaign developed with the aim of
evaluating the effect of the incorporation in concrete of recycled aggregates from crushed …