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Treated Municipal Solid Waste (Biomass) Based Concrete Properties—Part I: State of the Art

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Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management is a worldwide problem growing with the increase of global human population. The practice of incinerating garbage has ceased in some parts of the world because of air contamination and other public health issues. Environmental impact of landfilling is ever increasing. There is clearly a need to adopt cost-effective alternatives to treat MSW. This paper is a part of a major work that considers MSW based biomass as a partial replacement of sand in concrete. The product of the global work is an exciting and eco-friendly alternative for the building industry, especially concrete intended for certain types of applications in the construction industry such as temporary works. Here, in this paper, an overview of the state of the art on the topic is presented.

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This research is financially supported by the Melbourne Research Scholarship offered by the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Grant (DE170100165, DE 2017 R1). This work is financially supported by: Base Funding—UIDB/04708/2020 of the CONSTRUCT—Instituto de I&D em Estruturas e Construções—funded by national funds through the FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC). This work is funded by national funds through FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the Scientific Employment Stimulus—Institutional Call—CEECINST/00049/2018.

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  1. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Massoud Sofi, Junli Liu, Zhiyuan Zhou & Priyan Mendis

  2. CONSTRUCT-LABEST, Faculty of Engineering (FEUP), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Lino Maia

  3. Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering, University of Madeira, Campus Universitário da Penteada, 9020-105, Funchal, Portugal

    Lino Maia

  4. School of Science, Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry, College of Science, Engineering and Health, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia

    Ylias Sabri

  5. Bioelektra Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

    Tawab Frahmand

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Sofi, M. et al. (2021). Treated Municipal Solid Waste (Biomass) Based Concrete Properties—Part I: State of the Art. In: M.C.F. Cunha, V., Rezazadeh, M., Gowda, C. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC 2020). RSCC 2020. RILEM Bookseries, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76543-9_27

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