Effects of Waste Powder, Fine and Coarse Marble Aggregates on Concrete Compressive Strength

Bogachan Basaran, Ilker Kalkan, Ceyhun Aksoylu (), Yasin Onuralp Özkılıç and Mohanad Muayad Sabri Sabri
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Bogachan Basaran: Department of Construction, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Amasya University, 05100 Amasya, Turkey
Ilker Kalkan: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Kirikkale University, 71450 Kirikkale, Turkey
Ceyhun Aksoylu: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Konya Technical University, 42130 Konya, Turkey
Yasin Onuralp Özkılıç: Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Necmettin Erbakan University, 42090 Konya, Turkey
Mohanad Muayad Sabri Sabri: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-22

Abstract: The use of marble wastes in concrete mixtures, causing air and water pollution, has been promoted in the academic and practical spheres of the construction industry. Although the effects of various forms (powder, fine, coarse and mixed) of this waste on the concrete compressive strength has been subject to a decent number of studies in the literature, the difficulties in reaching specific conclusions on the effect of each test parameter constitute a major restraint for the proliferation of the use of marble wastes in the concrete industry. Most of these studies are far from underscoring all of the parameters affecting the concrete compressive strength. Due to the urgent need in the literature for comprehensive studies on concrete mixtures with marble wastes, the results of the axial compression tests on a total of 429 concrete mixtures with marble aggregates were compiled by paying special attention to reporting all test variables (form and content of marble wastes, water–cement ratio, cement content, proportion of coarse and fine aggregates in all aggregates) affecting the concrete strength. In this context, multivariate regression analyses were carried out on the existing test results. These regression analyses yielded to relationships between the change in concrete compressive strength and the test parameters for each and every form of marble waste (powder, fine and coarse aggregate). The study indicated that independent from the form of marble wastes (as powder, fine aggregate or coarse aggregate), aggregate replacements of up to 50% can yield to significant changes in the concrete compressive strength. In addition, the analytical estimates from the developed equations exhibited a high correlation (a least r value of 0.91) with the experimental results from the previous studies, yielding to rather low error values (RMSE value is 5.06 MPa at max). For this reason, the developed equations can consistently predict the changes in concrete compressive strength with varying amounts and forms of the marble aggregates as well as the other test variables.

Keywords: concrete with marble aggregate; marble dust; recycling of marble aggregate; reuse of marble powder; fine and coarse marble (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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