Decorative concrete on white cement: resource provision, technology, properties and cost-effectiveness

Abstract

Decorative concrete refers to a special kind of concrete. Products made of decorative concrete must meet, in addition to the increased requirements for appearance, certain architectural expressiveness and also certain indicators for strength, durability, and environmental friendliness. In addition, one should strive to reduce the cost of both decorative concrete and products made of such concrete. The analysis is carried out, experimental researches of qualitative indicators of industrial man-caused wastes are also studied: carbide lime, fluoride, sludge-lignin, their material and chemical composition. The possibility of using the analyzed industrial wastes as raw materials for production of white and color cements is established. The physicomechanical properties of the obtained cements and decorative concretes on their basis are studied, the economic efficiency of the proposed technology is determined.