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Abstract

The cement industry is one of the world’s largest CO2 emitters. The need to minimize these emissions, and assimilate by substitution and different types of waste, are challenges faced in the European Union. The use of granite sawmill from the ornamental stone industry allows for the manufacturing of pozzolanic cements, in which 10% and 20% of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) has been replaced by waste. In the present paper, properties of cements and mortars have been tested (when fresh and once set), such as workability, setting, retraction, mechanical resistance to bending and compression, elastic modulus to compression, creep, retraction, and durability. In all cases and substitution proportions, the results have been as satisfactory as those achieved with OPC, even better, allowing a second life to the waste, and participating in the principles of the circular economy. Bot substitutions are very resistant and have great durability for the gelifraction processes from the new green cements. Using this waste—granite sawmill—its volume is minimized and transfer to a landfill is avoided.

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Title
Properties of Green Mortar Containing Granite Sawmill
Author
Yagüe, Santiago 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rosales-Prieto, Víctor 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sánchez-Lite, Alberto 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; González-Gaya, Cristina 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering, ETSII, National Distance Education University (UNED), C/Juan del Rosal 12, 28040 Madrid, Spain; [email protected] (V.R.-P.); [email protected] (C.G.-G.) 
 Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Graphic Expression in Engineering, Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering, School of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Valladolid, P° del Cauce 59, 47011 Valladolid, Spain; [email protected] 
First page
2136
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20763417
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2524471008
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.