Recycling ceramic industry wastes in sound absorbing materials

C. Arenas; L. F. Vilches; C. Leiva; B. Alonso-Fariñas; M. Rodríguez-Galán

doi:10.3989/mc.2016.10615

Authors

C. Arenas University of Seville, Higher Technical School of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
L. F. Vilches University of Seville, Higher Technical School of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
C. Leiva University of Seville, Higher Technical School of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
B. Alonso-Fariñas University of Seville, Higher Technical School of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
M. Rodríguez-Galán University of Seville, Higher Technical School of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/mc.2016.10615

Keywords:

Concrete, Bricks, Waste treatment, Aggregate, Particle size distribution

Abstract

The scope of this investigation is to develop a material mainly composed (80% w/w) of ceramic wastes that can be applied in the manufacture of road traffic noise reducing devices. The characterization of the product has been carried out attending to its acoustic, physical and mechanical properties, by measuring the sound absorption coefficient at normal incidence, the open void ratio, density and compressive strength. Since the sound absorbing behavior of a porous material is related to the size of the pores and the thickness of the specimen tested, the influence of the particle grain size of the ceramic waste and the thickness of the samples tested on the properties of the final product has been analyzed. The results obtained have been compared to a porous concrete made of crushed granite aggregate as a reference commercial material traditionally used in similar applications. Compositions with coarse particles showed greater sound absorption properties than compositions made with finer particles, besides presenting better sound absorption behavior than the reference porous concrete. Therefore, a ceramic waste-based porous concrete can be potentially recycled in the highway noise barriers field.

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