Waste ceramic tiles obtained from building demolition sites and left overs from new building sites were used.
Crushed ceramic waste.
As the ceramic waste is piling up every day there is pressure on the ceramic industries to find a solution for its disposal.
The reuse of crushed waste ceramic tiles as a substitute for fine aggregate in concrete has been investigated in this study.
Crushed ceramic waste tiles can be obtained free of cost and they are used to partially replace the coarse aggregates.
They found that waste tile had pozzolanic activity and decided that it was reasonable to use waste tile up 35 by weight in replacement of the cement.
A finite element method fem was employed first to.
In this study crushed ceramic waste aggregates cwas were utilized and added into asphalt mixtures to investigate their potential usage.
If they accept common household fixtures like ceramic sinks toilets and tiles there s a chance they may be able to take other ceramic items off your hands.
The crushed waste ceramic tiles were substituted in place of fine aggregates in the following percentages 0 20 25 30 35 and 40 in the concrete mix.
Replacement of coarse aggregates with ceramic waste tiles in different proportions of 0 10 20 and 30 with water cement ratio 0 4 and with admixture sikka plast it is a water.
Ay and ünal 2000 investigated the potentiality of using crushed waste ceramic tile as a cement replacement in concrete.
Meanwhile conventional crushed stone aggregate reserves are depleting fast particularly in some desert regions of the world.