Physical and mechanical properties of municipal solid waste incineration residues with cement and coal fly ash using X-ray Computed Tomography scanners

doi:10.1007/s11709-018-0502-6

Front. Struct. Civ. Eng.

2019, Vol. 13

Issue (3) : 640-652 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-018-0502-6

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Physical and mechanical properties of municipal solid waste incineration residues with cement and coal fly ash using X-ray Computed Tomography scanners

Toshifumi MUKUNOKI¹(

), Ta Thi HOAI^2,³, Daisuke FUKUSHIMA², Teppei KOMIYA⁴, Takayuki SHIMAOKA⁴

¹. Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Graduate School of Kumamoto University, Kumamoto city 860-8555, Japan
². Graduate school of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto city 860-8555, Japan
³. Faculty of Geology, VNU University of Science, Vietnam National University Hanoi, 334 Nguyen Trai, Hanoi, Vietnam
⁴. Water and Material Cycles System, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka city 819-0395, Japan

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Abstract

A significant volume of Municipal Solid Waste incineration bottom ash and fly ash (i.e., incineration residues) are commonly disposed as landfill. Meanwhile, reclamation of landfill sites to create a new land space after their closure becomes an important goal in the current fewer and fewer land availability scenario in many narrow countries. The objective of this study is to reclaim incineration residue materials in the landfill site by using cement and coal fly ash as stabilizers aiming at performing quality check as new developed materials before future construction. Indeed, physical and mechanical properties of these new materials should be initially examined at the micro scale, which is the primary fundamental for construction at larger scale. This research examines quantitative influences of using the combination of cement and coal fly ash at different ratio on the internal structure and ability of strength enhancement of incineration residues when suffering from loading. Couple of industrial and micro-focus X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners combined with an image analysis technique were utilized to characterize and visualize the behavior and internal structure of the incineration residues-cement-coal fly ash mixture under the series of unconfined compression test and curing period effect. Nine types of cement solidified incineration residues in term of different curing period (i.e., 7, 14, 28 days) and coal fly ash addition content (i.e., 0%, 9%, 18%) were scanned before and after unconfined compression tests. It was shown that incineration residues solidified by cement and coal fly ash showed an increase in compression strength and deformation modulus with curing time and coal fly ash content. Three-dimension computed tomography images observation and analysis confirmed that solidified incineration residues including incineration bottom and fly ash as well as cement and coal fly ash have the deliquescent materials. Then, it was studied that stabilized parts play a more important role than spatial void distribution in increment or reduction of compression strength.

Keywords mechanical property municipal solid waste incineration residues coal fly ash unconfined compression test image analysis X-Ray Computed Tomography scanners

Corresponding Author(s): Toshifumi MUKUNOKI

Online First Date: 09 August 2018 Issue Date: 05 June 2019

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Toshifumi MUKUNOKI,Ta Thi HOAI,Daisuke FUKUSHIMA, et al. Physical and mechanical properties of municipal solid waste incineration residues with cement and coal fly ash using X-ray Computed Tomography scanners[J]. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng., 2019, 13(3): 640-652.

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Tab.1 Mixture proportion of the materials

Tab.2 Summary of each sample condition and evaluation method

Fig.1 Schematic diagram of the micro-focus X-ray CT

Tab.3 Mean CT or mean density during 7-to-28 day curing at each part of specimens

Fig.2 CT image cross sections of the specimens cured for 7 days obtained from ICT. (a) Horizontal cross-sectional images. (b) Vertical cross-sectional images

Fig.3 CT images with 16 bits before and after threshold segmentation. (a) Original image. (b) Binalized image

Fig.4 Histogram of CT value for CT image of Fig. 4(a)

Tab.4 Porosity of specimens from CT images analysis

Fig.5 Comparison of void size between the absence (C0) and presence 18% (C18) of coal fly ash at 14 days (a) and 28 days (b) curing counted by 3D object counter

Fig.6 Stress-strain curves of specimens cured for 14 days (a) and 28 days (b)

Fig.7 The trend of peak stress and young modulus. (a) Peak stress. (b) Young modulus

Fig.8 Sample cross-section in 14 curing days without coal fly ash (a) and with 18% of coal fly ash (b)

Fig.9 CT images with 16 bits before and after threshold segmentation. (a) Initial condition. (b) After compression test

Fig.10 Binalized CT image to visualize cracks and voids of before loading (a), (b) and after loading (c), (d)

Fig.11 3D visualization of specimen cured for 14 days without coal ash (C0D14) before and after UC test

Fig.12 Changed porosity of specimens after compression in cases of comparison of curing time (a) and comparison of coal fly ash presence and absence (b)

Tab.5 Comparison of contents of coal fly ash on each curing day

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