2011 Volume 67 Issue 2 Pages 213-227
Recycled aggregates have brittle defects such as cracks, pores, and voids, which comes from the residue of paste in original concrete. This report presents a method of improving the quality of recycled fine aggregate by a producing method of selectively removing the defects. Fourteen different kinds of recycled fine aggregates were manufactured by three different griding machines: joe crusher, ball mill and granulator. The influences of the characters on the recycled fine aggregates on the flowability and strength of the recycled mortar was evaluated using multiple linear regression analysis. From the results obtained in this study, it is clear that the flowability was mainly affected by both the filling fraction of recycled fine aggregate and the amount of fine powder, whereas both the compressive strength and bending strength of mortars were affected not by the filling fraction, but by the fraction of defects and the surface smoothness of the aggregates. Compareing the properties of mortar with grinding machine, it is evident that the polishing action, which is such as the ball mill or the granulator is effective both to increase the filling fraction of recycled fine aggregate and to reduce the fraction of defects in the aggregate. It was also found that the surface of grain was more irregular when the granulator was used compared with the ball mill, and hence the strength of the recycled mortar was increased.
