PURPOSES : The objective of this study is to evaluate the mechanical properties of ternary blended cement concrete incorporated with pulverized reject ash (PRA) or pulverized fuel ash (PFA) based on a comparison with those of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) concrete. METHODS : To produce the concretes, the level of OPC replacement is set at 60%, which comprises 30%~45% ground granulate blast furnace slag and 15%~25% of fly ash (FA). The FA can be categorized into PFA, 4PRA (fineness 3,930 cm2/g3), and 8PRA (fineness 7,840 cm2/g3). The compressive strength, surface electric resistivity, initial absorption coefficient, and chloride ion penetrability of OPC and the ternary blended cement concrete are measured at predetermined periods after water curing. RESULTS : It is discovered that the mechanical properties of concrete with 8PRA are better than those of OPC concrete. The performance of 4PRA concrete is worse than that of 8PRA concrete, indicating that the fineness of the PRA can affect the mechanical properties of the ternary blended cement concrete. CONCLUSIONS : The use of PRA is feasible for the production of ternary blended cement concrete, provided that the appropriate mix design and grinding technology are used.

PURPOSES: As pavement generally provides service shorter than an expected life cycle, maintenance cost increases gradually. In order to help extending the service life and reduce maintenance cost, a new multi-functional composite pavement system is being developed in Korea. METHODS: This study is a part to develop the multi-functional composite pavement and is to investigate the mechanical performances of fiber-reinforced lean concrete for pavement subbase. The inherent problem of fiber reinforced concrete is dispersion of fibers in concrete mix. This study additionally evaluated fiber dispersion characteristics with respect to different fiber types. RESULTS: From the test results, the compressive strengths of the concretes satisfied the required limit of 5MPa at 7days. The standard deviation of the measured number of fibers were lower in the order of nylon, steel fiber and polypropylene. CONCLUSIONS: Reject ash was shown to be satisfactory as a replacement material to Portland cement in lean concrete base. The fiber volume fraction is suggested to be 0.4% even though the fracture toughness did not vary significantly with respect to fiber types. However, fracture energy absorbed up to complete failure increased with the increased fiber volume fraction increment.

The objective of this paper is to offer the feasibility of premixed type ternary blended aggregates using reject ash(RA), crushed sand(CS) and sea sand(SS) by studying fresh properties of the concrete. RA is varied from 2.5% to 10% with interval of 2.5% by weight of mixed aggregates. Test results indicates that the replacement of RA by mixed aggregates with low quality crushed sand and sea sand resulted in decrease of slump and air contents.

The quantities of low-grade reject fly ash (RFA) and paper sludge ash (PSA) generated are increasing annually and causing a serious social problem. In this study, the utility of these by-products was analyzed by using RFA and PSA as mineral admixtures. RFA-PSA blended mortar was fabricated and evaluated for use as a cement additive. RFA was milled to improve workability and the hydration reaction, and PSA was mixed with anhydrite to create the ettringite. As the RFA-PSA blended powder replaced 10% of the cement by weight, compressive strength of the mortar exceeded that of ordinary mortar prepared with Portland cement (OPC). Length change (28 days) of the RFA-PSA mortar with a 10% replacement rate was 68% of the OPC mortar and was 62% with a 30% replacement rate.

Road pavement in Korea generally undergoes in-service shorter than an expected life cycle. There are many reasons including increased traffic load and other attacks from exposure conditions. In order to extend service life and upgrade the pavement a new multi-functional composite pavement system is being developed in Korea. This study investigates strength of fiber reinforce lean concrete which used fly-ash and reject ash as a cement replacement. In addition this study suggest an appropriate compaction method in order to minimize the experimental scatters that used to come from non-unified specimen fabrication.