Volume 24, Issue 4, November 2018, Pages 1614–1628
Aida GAYE1, Prince Momar Gueye2, Dame Keinde3, and Ndèye Awa SENE4
1 Département of Civil Engineering, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique, Dakar, Senegal
2 Département de Génie Civil, Laboratoire de Matériaux de génie Civil (LMGC), Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
3 Département de Génie Civil, Laboratoire de Matériaux de génie Civil (LMGC), Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
4 Département of Civil Engineering, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique, Dakar, Senegal
Original language: English
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Senegal has at its disposal a lot of mineral deposits among which the clay. This material is usable mostly in the production of pottery, the manufacture of bricks or tiles. Nevertheless, the increasing use of some natural aggregates in construction, more accurately gravels like basalt as well as limestone, could expose them to depletion. It is within this framework that our research, which is about the thermo-mechanical study of clay gravel-based concrete, has been developed. It consists of replacing common gravels with expanded clay aggregates. To that end, we have tested the clay of Thicky, which the SOFAMAC factory uses to manufacture its building materials. We used different methods to get expanded clay aggregates at different temperatures. We also did the characterization of these expanded clay aggregate as well as that of clay concrete. The results obtained from the gravels have been compared with those from common concretes. They indicate that the use of these gravels bring satisfactory results when they undergo an adequate transformation.
Author Keywords: Thermo-mechanic, study, artificial aggregates, clay of Thicky, Senegal.
Aida GAYE1, Prince Momar Gueye2, Dame Keinde3, and Ndèye Awa SENE4
1 Département of Civil Engineering, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique, Dakar, Senegal
2 Département de Génie Civil, Laboratoire de Matériaux de génie Civil (LMGC), Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
3 Département de Génie Civil, Laboratoire de Matériaux de génie Civil (LMGC), Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
4 Département of Civil Engineering, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique, Dakar, Senegal
Original language: English
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Senegal has at its disposal a lot of mineral deposits among which the clay. This material is usable mostly in the production of pottery, the manufacture of bricks or tiles. Nevertheless, the increasing use of some natural aggregates in construction, more accurately gravels like basalt as well as limestone, could expose them to depletion. It is within this framework that our research, which is about the thermo-mechanical study of clay gravel-based concrete, has been developed. It consists of replacing common gravels with expanded clay aggregates. To that end, we have tested the clay of Thicky, which the SOFAMAC factory uses to manufacture its building materials. We used different methods to get expanded clay aggregates at different temperatures. We also did the characterization of these expanded clay aggregate as well as that of clay concrete. The results obtained from the gravels have been compared with those from common concretes. They indicate that the use of these gravels bring satisfactory results when they undergo an adequate transformation.
Author Keywords: Thermo-mechanic, study, artificial aggregates, clay of Thicky, Senegal.
How to Cite this Article
Aida GAYE, Prince Momar Gueye, Dame Keinde, and Ndèye Awa SENE, “Thermo-mechanical study of artificial aggregates-based concrete derived from the Thicky clays (Senegal),” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 1614–1628, November 2018.
