Experimental Studies on Mechanical Properties and Microscopic Mechanism of Marble Waste Powder Cement Cementitious Materials

Abstract

The resource utilization of waste stone powder is a meaningful way to realize sustainable development. This paper aims to study the influence of marble waste powder particle size and replacement cement dosage on the mechanical properties of cementitious materials and evaluate its microstructure and mineral characterization by SEM and XRD. The results show that the early strength of cementitious materials is obviously improved when the dosage of marble waste powder is in the range of 0–15%, and the lifting effect of marble waste powder with a particle size of 600 mesh instead of cement on the strength and microstructure of cementitious materials is the most obvious. The replacement of cement with different particle sizes of marble waste powder found that it had low chemical activity and participated in the hydration reaction of cement, but the reaction degree was low. The smaller the particle size of marble waste powder instead of cement, the denser the early microstructure, the more obvious the nucleation phenomenon, and the more serious the agglomeration between particles. In addition, the mechanism model of marble waste powder replacing cement cementitious materials was proposed. The strength prediction function model between the material dosage and compressive strength was constructed, and the accuracy of the model was verified.

Keywords

• marble waste powder
• cement
• mechanical properties
• mechanism of action
• model