Energy efficiency is one of the important indicators for the evaluation of green buildings, and it is also related to the sustainable development of the building industry and energy conservation. Using agricultural waste in concrete to produce biomass recycled aggregates can effectively utilize agricultural solid waste to develop new wall materials with economic and energy-efficient properties. In this study, industrial wastes such as ground, granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) and fly ash (FA) were used to replace cement as cementitious material and coconut shell (CC) as lightweight coarse aggregate (LWA) in lightweight concrete. The lightweight coconut shell aggregate concrete with a density of less than 1950 kg/m3 was used as structural concrete. The thermal conductivity of synthesized biomass recycled aggregate concrete (SBRAC) was about 0.47 W/mK, which is 217% and 19% lower than that of natural aggregate concrete (NAC) and crushed coconut shell aggregate concrete (CCSAC), respectively. With the same volume, the costs of SBRAC and CCSAC are 25.1% and 4.9% lower than that of NAC, respectively.
Compared with nanosilica collected in a gaseous state, nanosilica sol has great economic value and application significance for improving the performance of concrete and mortar. In this study, the influence of nanosilica sol on the hydration process of different kinds of cement is studied by means of hydration heat analysis,X-ray diffraction analysis(XRD)and other methods, and the properties of mortar such as setting time, mechanical properties and porosity are also studied to characterize the influence of nanosilica sol on the macroscopic properties of mortar. The experimental results show that nanosilica sol can accelerate the hydration rate of two kinds of cement and promote the hydration reaction degree of cement, and this promotion effect increases with the increase in nanosilica sol content. At the same time, nanosilica sol can significantly shorten the setting time of the two kinds of cement, and it is more obvious with the increase in content. Excessive content of nanosilica sol will adversely affect the permeability resistance of mortar. It may be caused by the weak interval formed by nanosilica particle clusters in the mortar matrix, which can be supported by the mortar pore structure distribution test. At the same time, the influence of nanosilica sol on the hydration of the two kinds of cement is different, and the compressive strength of HBSAC cement mortar increases first and then decreases after adding nanosilica sol; However, the compressive strength of P·O 42.5 cement mortar increases gradually after adding nanometer silica sol. This shows that nanosilica sol does not effectively promote the hydration of β-C2S in high belite sulfoaluminate cement (HBSAC) mortar. Based on the above experimental results, it can be concluded that when the content of nanosilica sol is about 1%, it has the best promotion effect on the hydration of the two kinds of cement and the performance of mortar.
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