The Utilization of Slag in Civil Infrastructure Construction - Tapa dura

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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.

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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.

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.