Self-compacting lightweight aggregate concrete and its properties: A review

P Kumar, D Pasla, TJ Saravanan - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper comprehensively analyses different properties of lightweight aggregates (LWA)
based on self-compacting concrete (SCC). The construction sector has acknowledged the …

Green concrete: Prospects and challenges

KM Liew, AO Sojobi, LW Zhang - Construction and building materials, 2017 - Elsevier
Utilization of green concrete in construction is increasingly adopted by the construction
industry owing to the drawbacks of conventional concrete and the numerous inherent …

Green concrete: A review of recent developments

A Sivakrishna, A Adesina, PO Awoyera… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
So much innovations have ensued in the concrete industry in the last decade, especially in
terms of ensuring concrete sustainability and its green initiatives. A call for sustainability is …

Assessment of important parameters involved in the synthesis of geopolymer composites: A review

KZ Farhan, MAM Johari, R Demirboğa - Construction and Building …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite intensive research performed on various fronts, geopolymer technology requires lot
of understanding, systemization and regulation, if it is to replace OPC in the construction …

Use of oil palm shell as an aggregate in cement concrete: A review

HM Hamada, BS Thomas, B Tayeh, FM Yahaya… - … and Building Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid development and increasing demand for construction materials have resulted in
the underperformance of traditional construction materials. The production of traditional …

The role of supplementary cementitious materials in hydration, durability and shrinkage of cement-based materials, their environmental and economic benefits: A …

D Ndahirwa, H Zmamou, H Lenormand, N Leblanc - Cleaner Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to strict environmental regulations, the construction sector has observed extensive use
of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in recent years. As a result, new alternative …

Performance of sustainable concretes containing very high volume Class-F fly ash and ground granulated blast furnace slag

A Gholampour, T Ozbakkaloglu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, with the aim of lowering the environmental impact of concrete, the partial
replacement of cement in concrete with fly ash (FA) and ground granulated blast furnace …

Sustainable criterion selection framework for green building materials–An optimisation based study of fly-ash Geopolymer concrete

M Sandanayake, C Gunasekara, D Law… - Sustainable Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Green materials are considered as one of the prominent elements in designing an
environmentally sustainable construction project. Studies have highlighted cement …

Lightweight concrete—From basics to innovations

KC Thienel, T Haller, N Beuntner - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lightweight concrete has a history of more than two-thousand years and its technical
development is still proceeding. This review starts with a retrospective that gives an idea of …

Mapping the strength of agro-ecological lightweight concrete containing oil palm by-product using artificial intelligence techniques

A Ashrafian, E Panahi, S Salehi, M Karoglou… - Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The critical challenge for the cement production industry is the high emission of greenhouse
gases. For the sustainability in a cycling economy context civil and environmental engineers …