Concrete Recycling: Research and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367731496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 658 str.

Francois de Larrard; Horacio Colina

Opis

Demolition offers a supply of aggregate which must otherwise be transported and dumped. This book on all aspects of concrete reuse, draws on the Recybéton project, which lasted more than 5 years and gathered about 50 partners from both academia and industry.

Spis treści

Introduction. Recycled aggregates. Binder incorporating recycled concrete fraction. Recycled concrete from production to hardening stages. Properties of hardened recycled concrete. Mix-design of recycled concrete. Reinforced recycled concrete. Experimental construction sites. Sustainability of concrete recycling. Implementation of concrete recycling. Conclusion: concrete towards the circular economy.

O autorze

François de Larrard is Scientific Director of the R&D centre of the LafargeHolcim group and Scientific Director of the French national project Recybéton. He formerly spent almost thirty years at IFSTTAR (formerly LCPC). He has been granted both the Robert l'Hermite medal and the G.H. Tattersall award by RILEM, and is author of two books, including Concrete Mixture-Proportioning which is also published by Taylor & Francis.