Reducing the Effect of Air Pollution due to Cement Production by Using Low Cement Content Concrete with same or more Efficiency with Normal Concrete

Abstract:

The research aims to decrease the effect of air pollution due to CO2 pollution that liberates during the manufacturing of cement and that can be done by using less cement content in concrete without decreasing the strength of concrete. also reducing cement in concrete leads to less cost of construction and easy work in casting and finishing in concrete works due to using super-plasticizer that makes mixes with high workability and not needs any compaction in construction .the study show higher values of compressive and flexural strength of concrete with low cement content obtained by using CF super-plasticizer admixture .250 kg/1 cubic meter concrete with CF admixture gave more improvement in compressive strength compared with 350 cement content, also 400 cement content gave more results in compressive and flexural strength compared with ordinary concrete with 550 cement content.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 895)
• Pages: 50-58
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.895.50
• Online since: August 2021
• Authors: Rusul Ali Aldaher*, Abeer Ibraheem Khazaly, Suhad Abdulsattar Almahbobi, Qusay A. Jabal
• Keywords: Air Pollution, Compressive Strength, Concrete, Flexural Strength, Super-Plasticizer

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