Wood waste as coarse aggregate in the production of concrete

Hazardous and industrial waste composition and associated management activities in Caspian industrial park, Iran

“…Today, industries and other generators are legally responsible for managing their waste. (Thandavamoorthy, 2016;Musee et al, 2008). Therefore, the manufacturers should manage the wastes themselves, or contract with qualified companies to collect and dispose of the wastes.…”

A Review of the Properties, Structural Characteristics and Application Potentials of Concrete Containing Wood Waste as Partial Replacement of one of its Constituent Material

“…Although the compressive strength reduced in relation to the control at other replacement levels, the numerical value of the compressive strengths still meets the strength requirements as codes governing design of reinforced concrete (as discussed in Section 2.3.2). Both the splitting and flexural tensile strengths, as obtained from the work of [99], followed the pattern of the compressive strength. Samples at 15% replacement developed higher tensile strength than the control specimens, at other levels of replacement, reduction in the tensile strength was recorded.…”

“…Wood aggregate was obtained by shredding wood wastes from furniture industries, construction industries and other wood work industries (Figure 9). Some of the physical properties of wood aggregate, as found out by [99], include specific gravity of 2.4, water absorption of 2.5% and fineness modulus of 6.9.…”

“…From the results of the investigation conducted by [99], compressive strengths of concrete specimens decreased with increase in the percent replacement of coarse aggregate with WA. At 0, 15, 20 and 25% percent replacement, the compressive strength was: 31.40, 32.36, 26, 25, and 22.60 N/mm 2 respectively.…”

“…From the works of [99], the pattern of slump values in relation to increase in the percentage of coarse aggregate with WA is shown in Figure 10. It can be seen that slump value increased with percentage replacement of coarse aggregate by wood aggregate increased.…”