Introduction to Recycled Clay

What is/are Recycled Clay?

Recycled Clay - Clay minerals in both basins are assumed to be the residual products of incongruent silicate weathering in drainage areas, and their long-term variations are weakly impacted by postdeposition diagenesis and recycled clays (see Figs. ^[1] The SEM-EDX and BET analysis for recycled clays further confirmed that the metal ions were removed from water through adsorption onto the clay. ^[2]

recycled clay brick

This study examines the workability, strength, and microstructure of high strength eco-concrete incorporating recycled clay brick aggregate and calcined clay. ^[1] Two different types of concrete with different substituted coarse aggregates are studied, namely Recycled Aggregate Concrete (RAC) and Recycled clay Bricks Concrete (RBC). ^[2] Replacing part of cement with recycled clay brick powder (CBP) can ease the environmental impact caused by construction waste disposal and cement production. ^[3] In the study, the recycled clay brick powder/fine soil powder-based sodium hydroxide alkali-activated mortar (AAM) specimens were prepared by mixing different percentages (100/0, 80/20, 60/40, 40/6. ^[4] Effective and new uses of recycled clay brick may provide sustainability benefits in terms of landfill reduction. ^[5] Recycled clay brick powder (CBP) from waste clay bricks was utilized as a supplementary cementitious material to partially replace cement to prepare cement pastes or mortars. ^[6] In literature, studies on recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) with recycled aggregates (RAs) originated from clay brick waste are rare, which is mainly attributed to the much lower compressive strength of the RAC with recycled clay brick aggregates (RAC-RCBA) when comparing with its normal aggregate concrete (NAC) counterpart. ^[7] This work investigated the feasible utilisation of recycled clay brick powder in lightweight foamed concrete (LFC) as a substitute for sand. ^[8] Finally, the mixing amount of recycled clay bricks in recycled mixed coarse aggregates for pavement base or subbase is discussed. ^[9]

recycled clay masonry

To investigate the traffic-induced resilient and permanent deformation behaviors as well as the shear and particle breakage properties of the unbound recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) & recycled clay masonry (RCM) blends, a series of consolidated drained, resilient deformation and permanent deformation tests by a large-scale dynamic triaxial apparatus were performed. ^[1] Blends of Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) with Recycled Clay Masonry (RCM) with proportions of 100/0, 90/10, 80/20, 70/30, 55/45, 40/60, 20/80, and 0/100 by the total aggregate mass were evaluated for use as UGMs. ^[2]