journal article·2024-12Open access

Study on the design method of multi-component industrial solid waste low carbon cementitious material with cement as the activator

Ruiqi Wang, Guodong Li, Changyan Li, Yupeng Huo, Teng Wang, Peng Hou, Zuo Gong

Abstract

The relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties of multi-component solid waste low-carbon cementitious materials has been widely pay attention to. However, industrial solid waste is a complex multi-component system with many variable factors, which makes it difficult to design the formulation of cementitious materials. This paper pioneered the application of machine learning (ML) models, algorithms and error rates to analyze the compressive and flexural strength of fly ash-based pastes. Coefficient of determination (R2), mean squared error (MSE), root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE) and a20-index were used to evaluate robustness. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and Brunauer-Emmett-Taylor (BET) were carried out to analyze evolution of cementitious materials. The evaluation results of ML models exhibited that the Gradient boosting regression (GBR) model had the best determination parameters and a steep normal distribution fitting curve with an a20-index of 0.861. GBR model exhibited the best robustness. The key factors of fly ash-based cementitious materials were identified by Pearson's coefficient, which was benefit to determine the formulation of multi-component solid waste low-carbon cementitious materials. Furthermore, experiments also demonstrated that the optimum ratio of multi-component solid waste low carbon cementitious material was 10 % gypsum, 10 % metakaolin, 45 % fly ash, 15 % slag and 20 % cement, respectively. It was worth noting that the compressive strength of this kind of multi-component solid waste low-carbon cementitious materials reached 35 MPa, which was superior to the mechanical properties of P·O 32.5 cement. The results of phase, SEM images and pore structure distribution showed that the synergistic effect of the multi-component solid waste materials effectively filled the material voids and also facilitated the formation of a variety of gelatinous materials through gelling reactions in the late stage (14–28 d). This work will promote the resource utilization of industrial solid waste, contribute to carbon reduction, and can accelerate the green revolution of concrete.
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