Technological Formation Features of the Lightweight Concrete Cellular Structure

Abstract

One of the most important areas of energy and resource saving in construction is secondary material resources use. In modern construction, the requirements for concrete as one of the main building materials have grown so much that classical compounds are not able to provide the required qualities. Aware of this drawback, there is a tendency to improve and to change the structure and technology of modern concrete production with obtaining better physical and mechanical properties of a new building materials generation. Among the variety of technogenic wastes at the heart of the recycling problem is a significant part of cullet, which is an effective secondary resource in obtaining modern concrete compositions with ecological and economic effects. The physical-mechanical properties of a new high-efficiency thermal insulation material – foam glass concrete are presented. A method for the formation of the lightweight concrete cellular structure is proposed, and the scope of foam glass concrete products and structures is determined.