Limestone dimension stone quarry waste properties for concrete in Western Turkey
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Limestone dimension stone quarry waste properties for concrete in Western Turkey Hakan Elçi & Necdet Türk & İsmail İşintek
Received: 31 March 2014 / Accepted: 6 February 2015 # Saudi Society for Geosciences 2015
Abstract The aim of this paper is to assess the influence of the composition and texture of the limestone on aggregate properties from the five working dimension stone quarries wastes of Karaburun Peninsula in Western Turkey. The limestone samples were tested to determine their petrographic, mineralogic, and chemical characteristics and aggregate properties. Then, the testing concretes were prepared by using these aggregates, and hardened concrete properties were determined. According to the results obtained, limestone was found to be suitable for use as coarse and fine aggregate in normal-strength concrete production. But, the quality of concretes made using the limestone aggregates were found to be dependent on the silica ratio present in them. The threshold value of the silica ratio is determined to be 2 % by weight for the alkali-silica reaction development in concrete made with the Karaburun dimension stone quarries wastes. Keywords Alkali-silica reaction . Concrete aggregate . Dimension stone waste . Karaburun Peninsula . Mesozoic limestone . Western Turkey
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12517-015-1838-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. H. Elçi (*) Department of Geotechnic, Torbalı Vocational School, Dokuz Eylül University, 35860 Izmir, Turkey e-mail: [email protected] N. Türk : İ. İşintek Department of Geological Engineering, Dokuz Eylül Universty, Izmir 35160, Turkey N. Türk e-mail: [email protected] İ. İşintek e-mail: [email protected]
Introduction Aggregates make up about 60–80 % of the concrete volume (McNally 1998) and have a high influence on both the fresh and hardened concrete behavior (Al-Oraimi et al. 2006). Good quality aggregates should be hard, clean, highly strong, and resistant to chemical attacks. Besides, aggregate should not contain deleterious materials such as reactive silica and sulfate (Fookes 1980; Asamoah and Afrifa 2010; Tuğrul and Yılmaz 2012). Limestones generally make good source for concrete aggregates because of their high density, strength, and low porosity (
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