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Sustainable Design and Engineering: A Relationship Analysis between Digital Destructive and Non-Destructive Testing Process for Lightweight Concrete
Muhammad Ahmed Qurashi, Syyed Adnan Raheel Shah, Muhammad Farhan, Muhammad Taufiq, Waleed Khalid, Hunain Arshad, Muhammad Tayyab, Gullnaz Shahzadi, Muhammad Waseem
December 13, 2019
The development of sustainable lightweight materials is a promising field solution in this era. The production of sustainable materials by replacing coarse aggregates with some lightweight alternative provides a good quality construction material. In this study, rocky coarse aggregates were replaced by an ultra-lightweight material (i.e., expanded polystyrene beads) to produce an equivalent rock-solid mass of concrete. Using an M15 grade of concrete composition, expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads were added in place of aggregates in amounts ranging from 5% to 40% at a water−cement (w/c) ratio of 0.60. The specimen size as per American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) specification was 150 mm in diameter and 300 mm in length. Furthermore, statistical analysis for the relationship study for destructive testing (DT) (i.e., compressive test machine) and non-destructive testing (NDT) (i.e., rebound hammer and ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV)) has been performed at developed specimens under 7- and 28-day curing conditions. In the end, the results showed that NDT predicts higher compressive strength than that of DT with the addition of EPS beads up to 20% aggregate replacement, after that it is vice versa for up to 40% aggregate replacement. This study will not only help in the production of sustainable lightweight materials, but especially concrete block production can also be performed at a large scale as a sustainable engineering solution.
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concrete, EPS-beads, lightweight, non-destructive testing, process, sustainable
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Qurashi MA, Shah SAR, Farhan M, Taufiq M, Khalid W, Arshad H, Tayyab M, Shahzadi G, Waseem M. Sustainable Design and Engineering: A Relationship Analysis between Digital Destructive and Non-Destructive Testing Process for Lightweight Concrete. (2019). LAPSE:2019.1588
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Qurashi MA: Department of Civil Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan 66000, Pakistan
Shah SAR: Department of Civil Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan 66000, Pakistan
Farhan M: Department of Civil Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan 66000, Pakistan
Taufiq M: Department of Civil Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan 66000, Pakistan
Khalid W: Department of Civil Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan 66000, Pakistan
Arshad H: Department of Civil Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan 66000, Pakistan
Tayyab M: Department of Civil Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Technology, Multan 66000, Pakistan
Shahzadi G: Department of Mechanical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, ÉTS, Montreal, Montréal, QC H3 C 1 K3, Canada
Waseem M: Bayreuth Centre for Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Processes
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7
Issue
11
Article Number
E791
Year
2019
Publication Date
2019-11-01
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2227-9717
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PII: pr7110791, Publication Type: Journal Article
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