Advantages and Performance of Novel Sustainable Green Concretes

Abstract

The popularity of concrete is accompanied by terrible consumption, resulting in huge carbon emissions in our environment. Accordingly, the concept of sustainable development has been valued in the cement material production industry. Based on high-performance concrete, green high-performance concrete materials have been proposed and become a research hotspot. This study sorts out and provides the recognized characteristics of green concrete and introduces different environmentally friendly green concrete types from three ways of reducing the environmental burden. The fly ash concrete shows the characteristics which contain abundant resources, low cost and wide application scope. And for recycled concrete, it can greatly reduce the environmental impact caused by construction waste and reduce the production of traditional concrete. Nano-development of concrete would improve the properties of conventional concrete, to achieve greater strength with minimal environmental burden. Results show that green concrete saves the amount of cement and concrete, is environmentally friendly, and has high strength, high durability, and crack resistance compared with traditional concrete.