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Treated Municipal Solid Waste (Biomass) Based Concrete Properties—Part II: Experimental Program

M Sofi, L Maia, J Liu, Y Sabri, A Zhou, T Frahmand, P Mendis

Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC 2020) Volume 4: Shift to a Circular Economy | Springer | Published : 2021

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76543-9_26

Abstract

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management is a worldwide problem growing proportionally the earth human population. The practice of incinerating garbage has ceased in some parts of the world because of air contamination and other public health issues. Environmental impact of landfilling is ever increasing. There is clearly a need to adopt cost-effective alternatives to treat MSW. This paper is a part of a major work that considers MSW based biomass as a partial replacement of sand in concrete. The product is an exciting and eco-friendly alternative for the building industry. Here, in this paper, compressive and flexural tests are conducted on samples containing 5, 10 and 15% replacement of sand..

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3302 Building
33 Built Environment and Design
4104 Environmental Management
40 Engineering
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
4005 Civil Engineering
41 Environmental Sciences
7 Affordable and Clean Energy