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    COM PRESSIVE STRENGTH OF RECYCLE D

    GG REG TE TO CONCR ETE WITH V R IOUS

    PERCENT G E OF RECYCL ED GG REG TE

    SUR Y H NI DN N

    LEE YEE L OON

    ISM IL B DUL R HM N

    H MID H MOHD S M N

    MI VIM L SOEJ OSO

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    C O M P R E S S I V E S T R E N G T H O F R E C Y C L E D A G G R E G A T E C O N C R E T E W I T H

    V A R I O U S P E R C E N T A G E O F R E C Y C L E D A G G R E G A T E

    Suraya Hani Adnan, Lee Yee Loon, Ismai l Abdul Rahman,

    Hamidah Mohd Saman, Mia Wimala Soe joso

    Fakul t i Kejuruteraan Awam dan Alam Seki tar

    Univers i t i Tun Hussein Onn Malays ia (UTHM)

    E-mai l : [email protected] .my

    A B S T R A C T : C o m p r e s s i v e s t r e n g t h i s t h e b a s i c m e c h a n i c a l p r o p e r t i e s a n d o n e o f t h e i n d i c a t o r s t o d e t e r m i n e t h e

    p e r f o r m a n c e o f a c o n c r e t e . I n t h i s p a p e r , t h e e f f e c t s o f v a r i o u s p e r c e n t a g e s ( 0 % , 2 5 % , 5 0 % , 7 5 % , 1 0 0 % ) o f R e c y c l e d

    A g g r e g a t e ( R A ) o n c o m p r e s s i v e s t r e n g t h o f R e c y c l e d A g g r e g a t e C o n c r e t e ( R A C ) w e r e i n v e s t i g a t e d . R A i s u s e d t o

    r e p l a c e n a t u r a l a g g r e g a t e ( N A ) a s c o a r s e a g g r e g a t e i n c o n c r e t e m i x e s . T h i s r e s e a r c h a l s o c o v e r e d R A C m i x t u r e s a t

    d i f f e r e n t w a t e r - c e m e n t r a t i o (0 . 4 , 0 .5 , 0 . 6 ) . I t w a s f o u n d t h a t R A C h a d l o w e r c o m p r e s s i v e s t r e n g t h c o m p a r e d t o N a t u r a l

    A g g r e g a t e C o n c r e t e ( N A C ) . A t th e a g e o f 2 8 d a y s , R A C w i t h w a t e r - c e m e n t r a t i o 0 . 4 h a d t h e h i g h e s t s t r e n g t h .

    K e y w o r d s : c o m p r e s s i v e s t r e n g t h , r e c y c l e d a g g r e g a t e , r e c y c l e d a g g r e g a t e c o n c r e t e , n a t u r a l a g g r e g a t e , n a t u r a l a g g r e g a t e

    c o n c r e t e , r e p l a c e m e n t , w a t e r c e m e n t r a t i o

    1 0 I N T R O D U C T I O N

    Recycled Aggregate Concrete (RAC) is concrete that us ing Recycled Aggregate (RA) as par t ial ly or

    fully replacement in coarse and fine aggregate. I t is believed RA have been used from 1945 in

    concrete producing and started when World War II damaged a large quantity of concrete structures

    and the high demand of aggregate to rebui ld the s t ructures (Kheder and Al-Windawi, 2005) . They

    recognised the factors l ike depletion of natural aggregates, t ightly environmental law and waste

    disposal problems which inf luenced the appl icat ion of RA.

    RA ha d such a pos sible ap plication in certain area and M aso od et. al . (2002 ) have

    summarised i t . They have conducted some exper imental inves t igat ions and found that RA had a

    potent ial funct ioning as aggregate that can be appl ied in concrete roads , drainage work, shal low

    storage tanks , culver ts and sewa ge or t reatment plants .

    Recently Malaysia is not yet practising RA in i ts construction industry. No depletion of

    natural aggregate sources are the main factor why RA is not been using. But according to Masood et.

    al . (2002), Asia country should think seriously about the application of RA due to the increasing of

    discharge concrete for each year . Hong Kong, Japan and China have become pioneer count ies in

    Asia which are act ively conducted s tudy on RA appl icat ion in cons truct ion indus try. They can be

    seen in some research by Poon and Chan, (2006), Eguchi et . al . , (2006) and Huang et. al . ,(2002).

    Poon and Chan, (2006) has reported the application of 14,300 m

    3

    RA fo r Hon g Kong W etland Park

    cons truct ion. Meanwhile in Taiwan, the Construct ion and Demoli t ion (C & D) waste is handl ing

    proper ly s ince 1999 (Huang et . a l , 2002) and Japan have commit ted in appl icat ion of RA by

    publ ishing 'Standard for Usage of Concrete wi th Recycled Aggregate ' in 1996 (Eguchi et . a l . , 2006) .

    Uni ted Kingdom is one good example of wes tern countr ies which pract is ing RA in i t s

    cons truct ion indus try. In DOE 1996, the '1995 UK Government White Paper Making Waste Work '

    had targets to increase the using of waste and recycled materials as aggregates to 30 million tonnes

    per year by 2006. In UK, Construct ion and Demoli t ion (C&D) waste has been ident i f ied were had

    value in engineering materials for construction industry (Lawson et. al . , 2001). Lawson et. al . (2001)

    also reported that 51.1% or 27.4 million tonnes of (C& D) waste were disposed directly to landfil l ,

    mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
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    39.6 % or 21.2 mil l ion tonnes were except ing f rom l icensed disposal and were pr imar i ly used for

    land modelling during the construction projects and 9.2 % or 5 million tonnes were either crushed to

    produce a graded product or di rect ly recovered. Recycl ing and reuse (C&D) waste and produced as

    RA is expected to improve on supplying of construction material and also can solve the disposal of

    waste construction material (Masood et. al . , 2001).

    RAC has at t racted many researchers to s tudy i ts performance. Previous researchers have

    conducted s tudy on appl icat ion of RA and found that RAC have lower compress ive s t rength

    compared to Natural Aggregate Concrete (NAC), ( Ismai l , Suraya and Mia, 2007) . Table 1.0 shows

    the resul ts of previous s tudies which were us ing RA as replacement coarse aggregate in concrete

    mixes at di f ferent water-ce me nt rat io .

    Table 1.0 Summ arisation Result of Com pressive Strength from Previous Studies

    N o .

    N a m e o f R e s e a r c h e r S o u r c e o f A g g r e g a t e s w / c r a t io

    P e r c e n t a g e

    C o m p r e s s i v e

    R e p l a c e m e n t o f

    R A S t r e n g t h ( M p a )

    1

    R a h a l K .

    N a t u r a l A g g r e g a t e f r o m 0 . 6 5

    0 %

    22.7

    G a b b r o c r u s h e d r o c k 0 . 5

    0 %

    32.3

    i m p o r t e d f r o m U n i t e d

    0 . 4 8 0 %

    3 6

    A r a b E m i r a t e s

    0 . 4 3 0 %

    4 6

    0.4

    0 %

    53.5

    R e c y c l e d A g g r e g a t e f r o m 0 . 6 5

    1 0 0 %

    20.3

    t w o b u i l d i n g s u n d e r d e m o l i t i o n

    0.5

    1 0 0 %

    29.2

    i n t h e H a w a l l y a r e a i n K u w a i t

    0 . 4 8 1 0 0 % 3 2 . 2

    0 . 4 3 1 0 0 % 39.4

    0 .4

    1 0 0 % 4 6 . 5

    2

    T o p c u a n d S e n g e l N a t u r a l A g g r e g a t e i s G r a v e l 0 . 6 3 9

    0

    18.8

    0 . 6 3 9

    3 0 %

    15.2

    0 . 6 3 5

    5 0 %

    15

    0 . 6 3 8

    7 0 %

    14.2

    0 . 6 3 7

    1 0 0 %

    13.8

    R e c y c l e d A g g r e g a t e i s c r u s h i n g 0 . 5 7 1

    0 %

    2 0

    n a t u r a l c o n c r e t e ( 2 8 - d a y 0 . 5 7 3 0 % 18.2

    c y l i n d r i c a l c o m p r e s i i v e s t r e n g t h 0 . 5 6 9

    5 0 %

    17.8

    o f 1 4 M P a ) 0 . 5 7 1 7 0 %

    16.6

    0 . 5 7

    1 0 0 %

    14

    3

    T . Y . T u , Y . Y . C h e n R e c y c l e d A g g r e g a t e f r o m 0 . 3 2

    1 0 0 %

    3 2

    a n d C . L H w a n g

    d e m o l i s h e d - c o n s t r u c t i o n w a s t e s 0 . 3 6

    1 0 0 %

    2 7

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    g e n e r a t e d d u r i n g 9 2 1 C h i - C h i

    0 . 4 1 0 0 %

    2 8

    e a r t h q u a k e

    4 H . J . C h e n , T . Y .

    N a t u r a l A g g r e g a t e i s f r o m 0 . 3 8

    0 %

    5 5

    a n d K . H . C h e n c r u s h e d r o c k

    0 . 4 6 0 % 4 2

    0 . 5 8 0 %

    2 9

    0 . 6 7 0 %

    2 5

    0.8

    0 %

    2 0

    R e c y c l e d A g g r e g a t e is f r o m

    0 . 3 8 1 0 0 % 3 8

    b u i l d i n g r u b b l e c o l l e c t e d f r o m

    0 . 4 6

    1 0 0 %

    3 2

    d a m a g e d s t r u c t u r e s t h a t 0 . 5 8 1 0 0 % 2 7

    c o n t a i n i n g w a s t e c o n c r e t e , t i l e s ,

    0 . 6 7

    1 0 0 %

    2 2

    b r i c k s a n d o t h e r i m p u r i t i e s s u c h 0 . 8 1 0 0 % 1 9

    a s g y p s u m a n d c l a y .

    5 K o u , P o o n a n d C h a n

    N a t u r a l a g g r e g a t e i s c r u s h e d

    0 . 4 5

    0 % 6 6 . 8

    G r a n i t e

    2 0 % 6 2 . 4

    5 0 % 5 5 . 8

    1 0 0 % 4 2

    R e c y c l e d A g g r e g a t e i s f r o m 0 . 5 5 0 % 4 8 . 6

    R e c y c l i n g f a c i l i t y i n H o n g 2 0 % 4 5 . 3

    K o n g

    5 0 %

    4 2 . 5

    1 0 0 %

    38.1

    From Table 1.0. , can be seen in Topcu and Sengel (2004) and Kou, Poon and Chan (2007) s tudy,

    that compress ive s t rength of RAC is lowered when replacement of RA as coarse aggregate in

    concrete mix is increased. According to Olorunsogo (1999) , the factors l ike RA had smoother

    surface and rounder com pared to NA which lead to this mat ter . Otherw ise, Otsuki et . a l . (2003) and

    Tam et . a l . (2005) had proposed modif ied mixing procedure to enhance compress ive s t rength of

    RAC.

    Different sources of RA also played an impor tant role in determining compress ive s t rength of

    RAC. Although those concrete had same w/c rat io , but i t ' s compress ive s t rength seemed qui te

    dif ferent to each other . For examp le, in Rahal K. (2007 ) and T.Y T.Y . Tu, Y.Y.Chen and

    C.L.Hwang (2005) s tudy, al though their w/c rat io for concrete mixture is 0 .4 and used RA at 100%

    replacemen t , but they obtained a di f feren t resul t in com press ive s t rength which is 46.5 and 28 M Pa.

    Cements content in the mixture also be a factor which lead to this different result .

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    In T.Y. Tu, Y.Y.Chen and C.L.Hwang (2005) s tudy also, i t found that water content in

    concrete mix es mu st be suff icient when RA is used in concrete mixe s . This can be viewed in thei r

    s tudy which R A C with same w/c rat io but had a di f ferent wate r content that 150, 160 and 170 kg/m

    3

    .

    Supposedly, lower water content wi l l lead to greater compress ive s t rength, but in this s tudy, RAC

    with water content 160 kg/m

    3

    obtained higher compress ive s t rength than that of 150 and 170 kg/m

    3

    .

    Al though they fou nd a di f ferent resul t f rom expec ted, they have conclud ed that RA need suff icient

    water to ful f i l the abso rpt ion capaci ty nee ds . Strength wi l l decrease w hen w ater content i s

    insuff icient and poor hydrat ion process occurred. But excess ive amount of pas te also leading to

    weak inter face-zone and low dens i ty concrete wi l l deal to poor compress ive s t rength.

    In H.J . Chen, T.Y. and K.H. Chen (2003) s tudy, washed RA is used as coarse aggregate.

    They found that washed RA comprised higher s t rength than that of unwashed RA. Greater bond

    effects were produ ced whe n im pur i t ies , powde r and harmfu l mater ials on aggregate surface in RA

    are washed away. They also identif ied that at low w/c ratio, the compressive strength ratio of

    recycled concretes to normal concretes are decreased. Main factor which lead to this result is

    strength of the paste is increase at low w/c ratio. Based on composite material theory, they revealed

    that RA wil l become a weak mater ial and i ts bear ing capaci ty become smal ler which inf luenced to

    decrease in strength.

    General conclus ion is made based f rom this table that compress ive s t rength of RAC is lower

    than that of NAC. It is also showed that when w/c ratio of concrete mix is lower, compressive

    s t rength for RA C a nd NA C is higher . Acco rdingly, this paper wi l l s tudy the ef fect of var ious

    replaceme nt of RA on i ts compre ss ive s t rength for di f feren t wa ter-cem ent rat io .

    2.0 E X P E R I M E N T A L W O R K

    2 1 M aterials

    The mater ials used in this exper iment were:

    1. Ordinary Por t land C em ent (O PC)

    2. Sand

    3. Natural gravel wi th maxim um s ize 20 mm (NA )

    4. Superplas t icizer

    5. Recycled Aggregate (RA) - used as coarse aggregate

    The recycled coarse aggregates were produced by crushing the was te concrete cubes at outer UTHM

    Mater ial Laboratory that had compress ive s t rength between 20 to 25 MPa. These waste cubes were

    broken into smal ler pieces and crushed us ing a jaw crusher . Then the RA produce d is s ieved with

    max s ize 20 mm. Table 2.1 showed the phys ical proper t ies of NA and RA.

    Table 2.1 Physical Properties of Aggreg ate

    Type of Proper t ies

    Normal Aggrega te

    Recyc led Aggrega te

    Specif ic

    Gravity

    SSD

    2.48

    2.39

    pecif ic

    Gravity

    Oven Dried

    2.46 2.31

    Specif ic

    Gravity

    Apparen t

    2.51 2.5

    Aggrega te Impac t Value

    17.6

    36.3

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    ( )

    Aggrega te Crush ing Value

    ( )

    17.25

    35.86

    Absorpt ion (%)

    0.83

    3.34

    2 2 Concr ete mixes

    Two groups of concrete mixes , NAC and RAC were produced us ing natural sand as f ine aggregate.

    NA C m ixes were used ful ly Natural A ggregate as coarse aggreg ate in concrete mix. Mea nwh ile

    RA C mixes w ere used Recycled Agg regate as par t ially or ful ly replace me nt of Natural Agg regate as

    coarse aggregate. These mixes were des igned according to DOE mix des ign. The concrete mixtures

    were prepared with a water-cement (w/c) rat io 0.4, 0 .5 and 0.6. The s lump target i s between 60 mm

    to 180 mm for N A C and R AC mixes . Skim Q uick Set (SQS) is used as superplas ticizer . The

    com binat ion in concrete mix es af ter this wi l l be called as RA 00, RA25 , RA 50, RA7 5 and R A10 0.

    Table 2.2 showed the detai ls of concrete mixes .

    Table 2.2 Series of mix proportion

    Series

    Natural Aggregate (%)

    Recycled Aggregate (%)

    R A 0 0

    100

    0

    RA25 75

    25

    RA50 50

    50

    RA75 25

    75

    RA100 0

    100

    2 3 Test ing of Con crete

    Slump and compress ive tes t i s conducted to determine concrete 's workabi l i ty and compress ion

    s trength. Slump tes t i s conducted fol lowing ASTM C 143-90a. Meanwhile , compress ive tes t i s

    conducted by fol lowing BS 1881: Par t 108:1983 and three cubes of 100mm x 100mm x 100mm

    were tested at 7, 14 and 28 days.

    3.0 R E S U L T S A N D D I S C U S S IO N

    3 1 Slum p Test Result

    The slump results are presented in Table 3.1. I t can be observed in Figure 3.1 that concrete mixes at

    0.4 had a lower s lump compared to 0.5 and 0.6 concrete mixes . On the other hand, when

    replacement of RA is increased in concrete mixes , the s lump of concrete mixes is decreased. I t was

    expected because recycled aggregate is high in water absorpt ion. Poon C.S. et . a l . (2006) revealed

    that mortar over RA is lead to low s lump of RAC.

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    Table 3.1 Slump for Different w/c Ratio

    Concrete Mixes

    S E R I E S

    W / C R A T I O S L U M P ( m m )

    R AOO 0 . 4 135

    0 . 5 173

    0 . 6 1 7 9

    R A 2 5 0 . 4 1 2 8

    0 . 5 165

    0 . 6

    170

    R A 5 0 0 . 4 9 0

    0 . 5 165

    0 . 6 165

    R A 7 5 0 . 4 6 0

    0 . 5 160

    0 . 6 159

    R A 1 0 0 0 . 4 5 0

    0 . 5 153

    0 . 6 156

    SLUMP

    R A O O R A 0 2 5 R A 0 5 0 R A 0 7 5 R A 1 0 0

    P e r c e n t a g e o f R A { )

    0 . 4

    0 . 5

    0 6

    Fig. 3.1 Slump for Concrete Mixes

    3 2 Com pressive Test

    The compress ive s t rength resul ts are presented in Table 3.2. Each presented value is the average of

    three measurements . I t i s shown in Fig. 3 .2.1 that compress ive s t rength of RAC is lowered compared

    to Natural Aggregate Concrete (NAC). For w/c rat io 0.4 and 0.5, the concrete mixtures prepared

    with 25, 50, 75 and 100 % replacement of RA had a decrease of 21.9, 23.7, 43.3, 32.7 % and 13.2,

    7.7, 19.1,13.2 % in the compress ive s t rength at 28-day com pared to N AC . Then , the concrete

    mixtures wi th w/c rat io 0.6 that prepared with 25, 50, 75 and 100% replacement of RA had a

    decrease of 11.85, 17.1, 31.3, 22.3 % in compressive strength than that of NAC. In these figure, i t

    a lso found that RA 10 0 obtained higher compress ive s t rength than that of RA 075. Norm al ly as RA

    replacement increased, compress ive s t rength wi l l decrease (Topcu and Sengel (2004) and Kou, Poon

    and Chan (2007)) . The higher compress ive s t rength may be at t r ibuted to the greater bonding force

    and s t rength when same type of aggregates was used. Otherwise, RAC s t i l l obtained lower

    compress ive s t rength compared to NAC.

    Table 3.2 Result o C ompressive Strength for Different W/C Ratio

    S E R I E S

    W / C R A T I O

    7 - d a y 1 4 - d a y

    2 8 - d a y

    R A O O

    0. 4

    0 . 5

    0 . 6

    34.4 38.6

    56.6

    A O O

    0. 4

    0 . 5

    0 . 6

    20.3 22.0

    30.2

    R A O O

    0. 4

    0 . 5

    0 . 6

    15.9 18.4 21 .1

    R A O O

    0. 4

    0 . 5

    0 . 6

    R A 0 2 5

    0 . 4

    0 . 5

    0 . 6

    29.9

    37.5 44.2

    A 0 2 5

    0 . 4

    0 . 5

    0 . 6

    19.2 21.7

    26.2

    R A 0 2 5

    0 . 4

    0 . 5

    0 . 6

    13.4 16.4

    18.6

    R A 0 2 5

    0 . 4

    0 . 5

    0 . 6

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    R A 0 5 0

    0.4

    0 .5

    0 .6

    27.1

    36.3 43.2

    A 0 5 0

    0.4

    0 .5

    0 .6

    15.5

    21.9

    25.1

    R A 0 5 0

    0.4

    0 .5

    0 .6

    12.3

    15.8

    17.5

    R A 0 5 0

    0.4

    0 .5

    0 .6

    R A 0 7 5 0.4

    0.5

    0 .6

    23.2 31.3 32.1

    A 0 7 5 0.4

    0.5

    0 .6

    16.1

    18.6

    22.0

    R A 0 7 5 0.4

    0.5

    0 .6

    11.4

    12.9

    14.5

    R A 0 7 5 0.4

    0.5

    0 .6

    R A 1 0 0

    0.4

    0 .5

    0 .6

    21.8

    30.2

    38.1

    A 1 0 0

    0.4

    0 .5

    0 .6

    16.5

    18.9

    23.6

    R A 1 0 0

    0.4

    0 .5

    0 .6

    10.3

    11.9

    16.4

    R A 1 0 0

    0.4

    0 .5

    0 .6

    Fig. 3.2.1 Com pressive Strength for Fig. 3.2.2 Com pressive Strength for

    w/c ratio 0.4 w/c ratio 0.5

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    C O M P R E S S I V E S T R E N G T H R A C W IT H W / C R A T I O 0 .6

    R A OO R A 2 5 R A 5 0 R A 7 5 R A 1 0 0

    SERIES K)

    7 D A Y

    1 4

    D A Y

    0 2 8 D A Y

    Fig. 3.2.3 Compressive Strength for w/c ratio 0.6

    5 0 C O N C L U S I O N

    The fol lowing conc lus ions have been made based on the resul ts of this s tudy:

    1. With the same w/c ra t io , the s lump va lue decreases i f percentage of RA is increased.

    2. The compress ive s t rength of Recyc led Aggrega te Concre te was lower than tha t of Natura l

    Aggre ga te Conc re te .

    3 . Lower wate r-cement ra t io of Recyc led Aggrega te Concre te lead to higher in compress ive s t rength.

    RAC could increase i ts compress ive s t rength by reduc ing the wate r-cement ra t io of concre te .

    4 . The re la t ionship of w/c ra t io and compress ive s t rength of RAC is inverse ly propor t iona l .

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