ACI SP-314:2017 PDF Download

ACI SP-314:2017 is a standard published by the American Concrete Institute's Committee 555 on recycling. The standard aims to promote eco-efficiency and sustainability in the concrete industry by incorporating recycled post-consumer and industrial byproducts into concrete mixtures. These byproducts include scrap tire rubber, post-consumer glass, reclaimed asphalt pavements, incinerated sludge ash, and recycled concrete aggregate.

The standard acknowledges the growing challenges of resource depletion and waste generation due to increasing population and urbanization. It highlights the potential of the construction industry to make use of these byproducts, which can sometimes outperform conventional materials, without compromising the long-term behavior of concrete civil infrastructure.

The standard is divided into eleven sections, each focusing on a specific aspect of incorporating recycled materials into concrete. These sections cover topics such as recycling tire rubber, analytical modeling of crumb rubber concrete, dynamic properties of rubberized concrete, evaluation of fly ash-based concretes containing post-consumer glass aggregates, use of reclaimed asphalt pavement as aggregate, physical and mechanical properties of mortars containing incinerated sludge ash, characteristics of concrete with high volume coarse recycled concrete aggregate, fresh, mechanical, and durability characteristics of self-consolidating concrete incorporating recycled concrete aggregate, flexural strength of reinforced concrete beams incorporating coarse recycled concrete aggregate, behavioral model for recycled aggregate concrete under axial compression, and durability of recycled aggregate concrete.