Handbook of Sustainable Concrete and Industrial Waste Management

Francesco Colangelo is a Full Professor of Innovative Materials for Civil Engineering and the director of the master’s course in Safety Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. His main research areas include recycling of waste materials in concrete and geo-environmental and civil applications, treatment of MSWI fly ash, application of lifecycle assessment methodology to various processes for preparing innovative building materials, evaluation of the durability of mortars and concrete, stabilization and solidification of hazardous wastes, and synthesis of geopolymeric eco-sustainable materials based on industrial waste. He has extensive consultancy experience in the treatment and recycling of solid waste, remediation of old landfills, and resource recovery plants. He has served as the principal investigator for numerous research projects in collaboration with public and private companies. Since 2012, he has been a senior member of RILEM.Raffaele Cioffi has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II. He is Professor of Materials Science and Technology and Materials Engineering at the University of Naples “Parthenope”, Naples, Italy. He has been the Head of the Department of Technology and the director of the Research Quality Centre of the University of Naples "Parthenope". He has been the director of the Sustainable Development Engineering Laboratory of the Department of Technology, the president of the Teaching Board for the Industrial Engineering Course, and he is the coordinator of the Technical and Scientific Committee for the Master Course in Safety Engineering of the University of Naples " Parthenope". He is the vice-president of the Italian Association on Materials Engineering (AIMAT). Ilenia Farina is an Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering in the Department of Engineering at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy. She received a DPhil in Energy Science and Engineering from the same university. Her main research activities focus on the stabilization and solidification of hazardous industrial solid wastes, soils, and sediments; the development of energy-saving blended cements, concrete, and geopolymer materials made with coal fly ash, blast furnace slag, MSWI ashes, and other industrial by-products; the inertization of industrial and asbestos-containing wastes and sediments through mechanochemical treatments, with subsequent reuse of the resulting products as building materials; and life cycle assessment (LCA) of production processes for eco-compatible construction materials. She is responsible for several research projects in collaboration with public and private companies.

• Part 1. Eco-friendly innovative cement and concrete1. Foamed concrete containing industrial wastes2. Valorization of industrial by-products and wastes as sustainable construction materials3. Enunciation of lightweight and self-compacting concretes using non-conventional materials4. The use of construction and demolition waste as a recycled aggregate in sustainable concrete production: workability, strength, and durability properties5. Natural fibers6. Eco-friendly fiber-reinforced concretesPart 2. Use of industrial waste as aggregates: properties of concrete7. Energy-saving materials8. Fresh and mechanical properties of concrete made with recycled plastic aggregates9. Recycled glass as a concrete component: possibilities and challenges10. Recycled aggregate concrete: mechanical and durability performance11. Microstructure and properties of concrete with ceramic wastes12. Agricultural plastic waste13. Recycling and applications of steel slag aggregates14. Quarry waste15. Implementation of agricultural crop wastes toward green construction materials16. Balancing sustainability, workability, and hardened behavior in the mix design of self-compacting concrete17. Design guidelines for structural and non-structural applications18. Strength and microstructure properties of self-compacting concrete using mineral admixtures. Case study I19. Durability properties of self-compacting concrete using mineral admixtures. Case study IIPart 3. Innovative binders: alkali-activated and geopolymer concrete20. Difference between geopolymers and alkali-activated materials21. Geopolymer binders containing construction and demolition waste22. On the properties of sustainable concrete containing mineral admixtures23. Sustainable alkali-activated materials24. Design guidelines for structural and non-structural applications25. Future trends: nanomaterials in alkali-activated compositesPart 4. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete26. Calculation of the environmental impact of the integration of industrial waste in concrete using LCA27. Role of transport distance on the environmental impact of the construction and demolition waste (CDW) recycling process28. Management of industrial waste29. Use of industrial waste in construction and a cost analysis30. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of concrete containing waste materials: comparative studies31. Opportunities and future challenges of geopolymer mortars for sustainable development