This book explores recycling and reusing construction wastes as alternative coarse aggregates and presents this as a possible solution for the major challenge of making sustainable concrete. It explores the reduction of cement use and the overcoming of some inferiorities in recycled coarse aggregate through the partial substitution of cement with supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs). The book evaluates the effect of low-volume SCMs (mainly fly ash) in 100% recycled coarse aggregate based concrete and comprehensively investigates this sustainable concrete for strength, safety, serviceability and sustainability. More specifically, this book discusses macro and microstructure properties, environmental impact assessment and performance of structural components. It explores the use of the particle packing mix design method (PPM) for concrete proportioning as it compensates lesser modulus of elasticity of RAC and is beneficial in lowering the environmental impact of concrete. Necessary modifications in mix design, mixing and design of concrete mixes are suggested to make this concrete safe for construction practice. It illustrates different mechanisms and results through figures, histograms, tables and experimental test pictures showing the failure pattern of structural elements and microstructure of concrete. Readers can get a clear understanding of the performance of this SCM incorporated RAC at various scales like micro, macro and structural components.

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Sushree Sunayana is an Assistant Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, MNIT Jaipur. Prior to joining the institute, she has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of environmental and resource engineering at Technical University of Denmark (DTU Sustain). She holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India, M.Tech. in structural engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, and B.Tech. from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Odisha. Her research interests include sustainable construction materials, recycled concrete, structural reuse, microstructure properties of concrete and structural performance of reinforced concrete elements. She has published over 10 journal papers, book chapters and conference papers.

Sudhirkumar V. Barai is the Director and Senior Professor of Civil Engineering at BITS Pilani-Pilani campus, Rajasthan, India. He is also a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He obtained Ph.D. (Engg.) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore. He received the degrees of B.E. (Civil) and M.E. (Civil) with a specialization in structural engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, MS University of Baroda, Baroda. He was Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand between May - June 2008. He was also visiting scientist at the National University of Singapore during May - July 2003. He was the recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship and visited the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA between May - November 2000. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel between February 1997 - July 1998. His areas of research are sustainable construction materials, structural health monitoring and computational intelligence in engineering. He has published more than 250 papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings in areas of research. He has Co-authored/Co-edited six books with Springer: 'Concrete Fracture Models and Applications', 'Shear Strengthening of T-beam with GFRP: A Systematic Approach', 'Systematic Approach of Characterisation and Behaviour of Recycled Aggregate Concrete', 'Stability and Failure of High Performance Composite Structures' , 'Particle Packing Method for Recycled Aggregate Concrete' and 'Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials and Geotechnical Engineering: Select Proceedings of TRACE 2018'.