Cost-effective use of fine and ultra-fine materials in standard and high-performance concretes

Concrete mixes include a wide range of different natural raw materials. The local conditions prevailing for natural raw material resources make any input material, and thus mix design and, in some cases, the mix itself, relatively unique. However, the structure and composition of concrete mixes is normally based on standardized framework parameters rather than on the specific raw material properties. This means that at least some of the potential offered by the specific raw materials is not utilized.

The Quantz technology developed by G.tecz is applied to specifically intervene in the...

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