Affiliation:
1. College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
2. Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi 43600, Malaysia
Abstract
Hydrophobic aggregates have the great ability to prevent asphalt pavement roads from stripping-off of the asphalt in presence of water. In addition, they give the option to consume less asphalt and save cost. On the other hand, natural aggregates have been found to be non-renewable and rare. Geopolymer based artificial aggregates are great materials as they demonstrated to have exceptional features, such as high strength, superior durability, and greater resistance to fire exposure. In this study, a new hydrophobic geopolymer based aggregate has been produced with rice ash (RA) and fly ash as precursors as well as, Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) and Sodium Silicate (Na2SiO3) as activators. The mechanical properties combined with the softening coefficient, surface properties of samples, contact angle and adhesion were characterized as well as microstructure X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) test. The results indicate that the activators Na2SiO3/NaOH at a mix ratio of 1 have a suitable effect on the pores and the compressive strength of the new artificial aggregate most particularly sodium hydroxide. Nonetheless, it has been found that coating the artificial aggregate with asphalt showed a great improvement of the hydrophobic nature of the produced artificial aggregate based geopolymer. Hence, indicates the possibility of using it as recycle aggregate pavement. From a microstructure point, the hydrophobic nature of the new alkali-activated artificial aggregate can be improved by increasing the quantity of mullite in the mix proportion design.
Funder
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Subject
Polymers and Plastics,General Chemistry
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