Aggregates for Concrete

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CEN Standards for specifications and test methods for aggregates are being prepared. Details are given in section 8.8. 

The properties of an aggregate influence both the characteristics of the fresh mix and the strength and durability of the hardened concrete. 

In the production of limestone aggregate, the selection of appropriate crushers (see section 5.2) helps to ensure an acceptable particle shape. Well designed screens help to ensure that the aggregate is of the correct size and that it has a low content of fines and clay, all of which have a marked effect on the water demand for a given workability. The strength and durability of the hardened concrete is generally related to the water demand. 

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Clay. To produce lightweight aggregate for concrete, clay is calcined in rotary Idlns. Temperatures employed vaiy from 1350 to 1600 K. The apparent density of the clay is reduced by 50 to 75 percent. 

Blastfurnace slag Iron smelting Nearly all used As roadstone, railway ballast, filter medium, aggregate for concrete, fertilizer and in manufacture of cement... 

Tin mine tailings Tin mining Minor utilization. Tailing lagoons and discharge into sea Aggregate for concrete... 

Molten ash is one of the products of combustion of coal in certain liigli-capacity boiler furnaces. It is also called slag. In some plants, the ash is removed from the furnace in this fluid form. Such furnaces are known as slag tap furnaces. Slag has some commercial value as ballast, coarse aggregate for concrete, road metal, etc. 

Limestone competes with other hard rocks in the major market of aggregate for concrete and roadstone. In most countries, such rocks are widespread and there is intense competition between suppliers, based more on the delivered prices than on the properties of the aggregate. 

Aggregates for concrete including those for use in roads and pavements (prEN 12620)... 

ASTM C40-92 Test method for organic impurities in fine aggregates for concrete , 1992. 

Lafarge Industries South Africa (Pty) Ltd. (n.d.). Ultra Series. Ultra-lightweight Concrete. South African National Standards. SANS 1083 2006, Aggregates from natural sources — Aggregates for concrete. South African National Standard. Standards South Africa. Pretoria, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa (2006). 

ASTM C295. 2008. Standard Guide for Petrographic Examination of Aggregates for Concrete. Anntial Book of ASTM Standards (04.02) 9 pp. 

Lytag. Trade-name a lightweight aggregate for concrete made by sintering pulverized fuel ash (Lytag Ltd, Boreham Wood, England). 

British Standards Institution (BSI). BS 882 1992. Specification for aggregates from natural sources for concrete. BSI, London. [Superseded by BS EN 12620 2002. Aggregates for concrete], 2002. 

Definition of important constituents of concrete are given in Selection and Use of Aggregates for Concrete, ACI Manual of Concrete Practice, Part I, American Concrete Institute (1970). 

Veiy little work has being completed and pubhshed on the use of PFA as a filler in polyurethanes though one exception was a Pohsh Patent for a thermally insulating material particularly for making buildings warmer . (1) The work eompleted on PFA as a filler in plastics is on its use with polyolefins. (2)(3)The main body of work published concerns the use of PFA as a lightweight aggregate for concrete. (4)(5)(6)... 

The major filler uses of calcirun carbonate, both natmal and PCC, are paper, paint, adhesives and sealants, and polymers. Filler uses accormt for only about 1% of the 700 to 800 million metric tons of calcirun carbonate produced in the United States annually. Production is overwhelmingly dominated by commodity, low-value crushed stone, mainly for civil engineering uses and as aggregate for concrete and asphalt. 

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