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It is almost paradoxical that in the history of mankind composite materials were earlier used than their "homogeneous" rivals. The earliest "engineering materials" were bone, wood and clay. Wood is a composite of matrix lignin and a cellulosic reinforcement bone is a natural composite where fibres of hydroxyapatite reinforce the collagen matrix and the oldest building material was adobe clay as a matrix, reinforced by vegetable fibres. After the industrial revolution other composites were added reinforced rubber, reinforced concrete, reinforced asphalt, etc. 

In the cement concrete industry the recommended practice is to consolidate low slump mixes by vibration and high slump mixes with hand tools. For example, ASTM Method C 192 (6) specifies consolidating test specimens by vibration if the slump is less than 1 in. Relationships between workability and ease of placing sand-asphalt-sulfur mixes are being evaluated on various field projects to assess the workability requirements for mix placement with various types of equipment. 

Construction and Demolition (C D) waste typically consists of concrete, bricks, asphalt, wood, glass, masonry, roofing, siding and plaster, alone or in combinations. Intermediate C D landfills must have a 3-foot-thick clay liner and a leachate collection system. The diameter of leachate collection pipes must be at least six inches. Engineered landfills for municipal and industrial waste are constructed with a base liner and a leachate collection system. The primary purpose of the liner is to prevent grormdwater pollution. The liner may consist of clay only or be a combination of geomembrane and clay (known as a composite liner). The liner is constructed with at least a 2% slope towards perforated leachate collection piping to direct leachate to a collection system. 

The construction industry is using various kinds of composite materials such as fibre reinforced plastics (FRP), polymer concrete, polymer-asphalt, fibre reinforced polymer concrete, and so on. 

The CT-scanners have been employed to various industrial samples such as concrete, asphalt, wood, ceramics and so on. 

The market for tar-based road binders has declined considerably for a variety of reasons. Less cmde tar is available and the profits from the sales of electrode pitch and wood-preservation creosote or creosote as carbon-black feedstock are higher than those from road tar. In most industrial countries, road constmction in more recent years has been concentrated on high speed motorways. Concrete, petroleum bitumen, or lake asphalt are used in the constmction of these motorways. In the United Kingdom, for example, the use of tar products in road making and maintenance had fallen from 330,000 t in 1960 to 100,000 t in 1975 and is less than 100 t in 1994, mainly based on low temperature pitch which is not suitable for electrode or briquetting binders, but which is perfectly satisfactory as the basis for road binders. 

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The heaviest products obtained directly from oil arc lubricants, waxes, asphalt, and coke. These products have both domestic and industrial uses. Lubricants, for example, are applied in the operation and maintenance of industrial equipment and machinery. Asphalt, because it is not reactive to chemicals in the environment, is a superb material of construction in the building of roads and in roofing. It is also used in the waterproofing of concrete, the manufacture of black paints, and as a material lor tire threads, battery housing, electrical insulation, and other applications. The heaviest of all the petroleum products, coke, is used extensively as a major component of industrial electrodes and as a commercial fuel. 

On the basis of the results of extensive laboratory and field studies of SAS paving materials, it can be concluded that, when prepared and placed using established recommended practices, they can be expected to perform as well as, if not superior to, conventional asphaltic concretes. Three major drawbacks appear to hinder the general acceptance of SAS materials for greater usage in the paving industry. 

Cemented tungsten carbides also find use as a support for polycrystalline diamond (PCD) cutting tips, or as a matrix alloy with cobalt, nickel, copper, and iron, in which diamond particles are embedded. These tools are employed in a variety of industries including mineral exploration and development oil and gas exploration and production and concrete, asphalt, and dimension stone cutting. 

More than two-thirds of the naphthenic acids produced is used to make metal salts, with the largest volume being used for copper naphthenate consumed in the wood preservative industry. Oil field uses are primarily imidazolines for surfactant and corrosion inhibition. See also Petroleum. Besides the lubrication market for metals salts, the miscellaneous market is comprised of free acids used in concrete additives, motor oil lubricants, and asphalt-paving applications. See also Lubricant and Lubricating Agents. 

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Maintenance difficulties encountered with floors and roofs should be given particular attention in a structural design. Concrete floors are used extensively in the process industries, and special cements and coatings are available which make the floors resistant to heat or chemical attack. Flat roofs are often specified for industrial structures. Felt saturated with coal-tar pitch combined with a coal-tar pitch-gravel finish is satisfactory for roofs of this type. Asphalt-saturated felt may be used if the roof has a slope of more than jin./ft (4.17 cm/m). 

High Bearing Capacity Mixes. Conventional asphalt concrete mixes often deform under high loads over long loading periods. Thus conventional asphalt concrete is unsuitable for applications such as heavy duty industrial floors and container ports. The creep properties of such mixes may be improved considerably by adding sulfur to the mix. 

In many countries, the largest market segment for the sale of limestone is as an aggregate in the construction and building industry. The major uses are in concrete and roadstone (both bound and unbound). Other applications include sand for mortar, rip rap, armourstone for sea defence works, land fill, filter media, pebble dash and roofing gravel. Finely divided limestone is used as an inexpensive filler for asphalt concrete. 

The carpet industry in the United States produces about 1 billion square meters of carpet per year. Of this, approximately 70% is used to replace existing carpet this translates into 1.2 million t (1.32 million T) of carpet waste produced annually [49]. Additional wastes produced by the carpet making industry increase the total amount of waste fibers to an estimated 2 million t (2.2 million T). Several research efforts are addressing ways to include these waste fibers in both asphalt pavements and Portland cement concrete. 

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