The Utilization of Slag in Civil Infrastructure Construction - Hardcover

Wang, George C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0081009941 ISBN 13: 9780081009949

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The Utilization of Slag in Civil Infrastructure Construction strives to integrate the theory, research, and practice of slag utilization, including the production and processing of slags. The topics covered include: production and smelting processes for metals; chemical and physical properties of slags; pretreatment and post-treatment technology to enhance slag properties; potential environmental impact; mechanisms of potential expansion; special testing methods and characteristics; slag processing for aggregate and cementitious applications; suitability of slags for use in specific applications; overall properties of materials containing slags; and commercialization and economics. The focus of the book is on slag utilization technology, with a review of the basic properties and an exploration of how its use in the end product will be technically sound, environment-friendly, and economic.

• Covers the production, processing, and utilization of a broad range of ferrous, non-ferrous, and non-metallurgical slags
• Provides information on applicable methods for a particular slag and its utilization to reduce potential environmental impacts and promote natural resource sustainability
• Presents the overall technology of transferring a slag from the waste stream into a useful materials resource
• Provides a detailed review of the appropriate utilization of each slag from processing right through to aggregate and cementitious use requirements

About this title

About the Author

Dr George Wang is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University, North Carolina, USA. He has over 30 years of experience in special construction materials, advanced highway pavement, transportation infrastructure construction, and construction project management.

From the Back Cover

Using a byproduct or recycled material in construction involves thorough understanding the virgin material, byproduct, end product and their interactions which is much more complicated than using a conventional material and method.

The Utilization of Slag in Civil Infrastructure Construction is a unique integrated professional text covering the production, processing and utilization of a broad range of ferrous, non-ferrous and non-metallurgical slags. The book provides valuable information on applicable methods for a particular slag and its utilization to reduce potential environmental impacts and for natural resource sustainability, whilst also presenting the state-of-the-art technology of transferring a slag from the waste stream into a useful materials resource.

Early chapters cover topics such as ferrous metal production and ferrous slags, non-ferrous metal extraction and non-ferrous slags, non-metallurgical slags and slag processing. Following this, the book discusses the philosophy of slag utilization in civil infrastructure construction and environmental aspects of slag utilization. Finally the different uses of slag are presented, such as unbound granular materials, aggregates in hot mix asphalt and asphalt paving, cement-based materials, and cementitious applications including detailed usability criteria development and case studies. Specifications and guidelines for the utilization are also given.

While this professional text deals with the production of various slags, its focus is on the technology of slag utilization, which requires a clear understanding of the slag’s basic properties and how its use in the end product will be technically-sound, environment-friendly, and economic. Researchers, students, scientists and engineers in civil, construction, environmental, materials, and metallurgical engineering, will find this book an essential read.

Dr. George Wang is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University, North Carolina, USA. As a professional engineer and scholar he specializes in heavy civil infrastructure construction, serves in technical committees of ASTM, TRB, and ASCE, and has been an invited speaker on slag utilization in the US and internationally.

Edition details

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0081009941
• ISBN 13: 9780081009949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 442