The use of glass powder as a partial Portland cement replacement

Abstract

Finely grinded waste glass powder can become material having suitable properties from the point of view of particle size and pozzolanic activity. Glass powder incorporation into cement paste and cement-based composites can bring improvement in porous structure resulting in increased mechanical strength and durability characteristics. On this account, two types of recycled glass powder are investigated in the presented paper as a possible partial Portland cement substitutes in cement blends. For raw glass powders, basic physical parameters and chemical composition are measured. The studied glass powders are applied as 5, 10 and 20 mass% of Portland cement replacement in cement paste mix composition, whereas water/binder ratio of 0.3 is used for all studied pastes. Fresh paste mixtures are characterized using initial and final setting time measurement. For hardened pastes cured 28 days in water, bulk density, matrix density, total open porosity and mechanical properties represented by flexural and compressive strength are accessed. Portlandite consumption by the pozzolanic reaction is monitored with TGA. The obtained results show effectiveness of a borosilicate glass powder that acts as a pozzolanic active admixture. This resulted in improvement of mechanical characteristics for cement substitution up to 10 mass%.Finely grinded waste glass powder can become material having suitable properties from the point of view of particle size and pozzolanic activity. Glass powder incorporation into cement paste and cement-based composites can bring improvement in porous structure resulting in increased mechanical strength and durability characteristics. On this account, two types of recycled glass powder are investigated in the presented paper as a possible partial Portland cement substitutes in cement blends. For raw glass powders, basic physical parameters and chemical composition are measured. The studied glass powders are applied as 5, 10 and 20 mass% of Portland cement replacement in cement paste mix composition, whereas water/binder ratio of 0.3 is used for all studied pastes. Fresh paste mixtures are characterized using initial and final setting time measurement. For hardened pastes cured 28 days in water, bulk density, matrix density, total open porosity and mechanical properties represented by flexural and compressi...