콘크리트의 수축현상은 체적 변화를 발생시키며 균열의 원인이 되어 구조물 내구성 및 안정성에 영향을 미친다. 콘크리트의 수축 에 영향을 미치는 요인은 매우 다양하며, 특히 골재는 시멘트 페이스트의 변형을 구속하여 수축 발생을 억제하기 때문에 골재의 특성은 수축 현상에서 중요하게 고려하여야 하는 부분이다. 한편, 골재 부족 현상으로 인해 천연 골재 대체재 개발 및 적용에 대한 연구가 다방면으로 진행되고 있으며 콘크리트용 골재로 사용 되는 재료도 점차 다양해지고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 전기로 산화 슬래그를 굵은 골재로 사용한 콘크리 트의 수축 특성을 평가하기 위해 수축 실험을 진행하였으며, 실험 결과와 수축 예측 모델을 비교하여 기존 예측 모델의 적용성을 검토하였다. 실험 결과, 전기로 산화 슬래그를 굵은 골재로 사용함에 따라 수축량이 감소하는 결과가 나타났으며, 특히 자기수축 저감 효과가 크게 나타났다. 예측 모델과의 비교 시 건조수축과 자기수축 각각 GL2000 모델과 Tazawa 모델이 가장 유사한 예측값을 나타냈으나, 보다 정확한 예측을 위해서는 골재 및 혼화재의 물성을 고려할 수 있도록 보완이 필요한 것으로 판단된다.

In this study, the fundamental properties of concrete using industrial waste as aggregate were evaluated. The concrete specimens were prepared using the steel slag as coarse aggregate and heavyweight waste glass. It was found that when the electric arc furnace slag substitution ratio increased, air contents and density also increase. However, the slump is decreased with an increase in the substitution ratio of electric arc furnace slag.

In this paper, the mechanical properties of GGBFS concrete according to the replacement ratio of electric arc furnace oxidizing slag fine aggregate was evaluated. As the replacement rate of EOS fine aggregate increased, the amount of slump and air content decreased. In addition, EOS concrete increased the initial compressive strength, but, it tended to decrease at 28 days.

본 논문은 전기로 산화슬래그 골재를 사용하여 콘크리트를 제작하여 물리적 성능을 평가하였다. 실험은 전기로 산화슬래그 골재를 치환하여(잔골재-굵은골재) 0%-0%, 0%-100%, 50%-100%, 100%-100%으로 각 4수준으로 일반강도영역 W/C 45%와 고강도영역인 W/C 30% 의 2수준으로 제작하여 진행하였다. 굳지 않은 콘크리트에서는 공기량, 플로우 및 슬럼프, 단위용적질량 실험을 진행하였으며, 경화 콘크리트 에서는 압축강도 및 휨강도, 단위용적질량 실험을 통하여 물리적 특성을 검토하였다. 본 연구의 실험결과 전기로 산화슬래그의 혼입량이 증가 함에 따라 콘크리트의 강도 증진 효과가 나타났으며, 이는 전기로 산화슬래그 골재 내에 β-C2S로 인하여 골재 내외부에서 강도 증진 효과를 발 휘한 것으로 사료된다.

As the amount of slag generated annually increases, attempts to recycle slag as high value products are underway in order to develop an efficient resource recycling industry based on slag and derive economic benefits as well. However, the application of electric arc furnace (EOS) slag as construction material is practically limited because of the unstable substances included in it, such as free CaO.(EOS contains a small amount of free CaO, but several limitations still exist. Slag is stored for more than 3 months depending on the quantity of slag, which leads to additional economic loss. In this study, the amount of free CaO present in EOS is quantitatively evaluated to examine its qualities as a potential construction material and verify its application as concrete material. The quantitative analysis of free CaO present in EOS is performed using ethylene glycol. The free CaO contents of EOS samples were found to be below 0.5%. This satisfies the criteria specified in KS F 4571, which states that the CaO content should be below 40% and CaO/SiO2 ratio should be below 2.0. In addition, it was confirmed that free CaO content difference appears to be dependent on the aging period and storage position.

Replacement aggregate source like as electric arc furnace slag will be important more and more in the domestic construction field. Recently KS F 4715 was revised in order to utilize electric arc furnace slag as concrete aggregate. However, stability for an actual structure has not been confirmed sufficiently. Therefore, more careful attention should be paid on the quality management of slag aggregate. To evaluate the volume stability of electric arc furnace slag, a method of immersion expansion for evaluating road aggregate has been used. These conventional method needs long time, so there are many demands from industry for fast testing method. This paper is intended to evaluate whether the acceleration test method in the hydro thermal condition is proper or not, and find the correlations between the volume expansion and oxide compounds of slag aggregate. The test results indicates that the acceleration test method has sufficient possibility as a way of evaluating the safety of electric arc furnace slag, and that there is no correlations between the volume expansion of mortar bar with slag aggregate and the oxide compositions of slag aggregate, but the main cause of the pop-out phenomenon is the MgO content of slag aggregate.

For utilization of Electric Arc Furnace Slag’s high added value, KS F 4571 was revised, so the institutional environment to use concrete aggregate was prepared. But, it has hardly been reported how much the slag occurring in actual steel-making plants meets KS requirements. Therefore, this study was intended to analyze various engineering features of electric arc furnace slag, which occur in diverse kinds of electric arc furnace process to manufacture reinforcing rebar, hot roll, and shape steel, in accordance with KS and relevant standards. The test results from this study showed that electric arc furnace slag occurring in Korea didn’t meet the standards relating to many physical properties, such as water absorption, grading, unit volume weight, and material passing standard sieve 0.08 mm which are required for concrete aggregate and are prescribed in KS F 4571, and therefore that something is needed to be improved. Regarding chemical properties, heavy metal solubility based on official wastes test method, CaO and FeO were met, but content of MgO related to expansion and basicity exceeded or came close to standards. Therefore, it was found that some measures should be taken to address the issue.