The current study
tries to cut carbon emissions by using
various
waste materials in place of cement, including sugarcane bagasse ash
(SCBA), ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS), and ladle furnace
slag (LFS), individually and in a combined form also, which has not
been studied yet. In the same context, effort was made to utilize
the maximum amount of waste materials as the replacement of cement
to create a sustainable environment. Besides this, another aim is
checking the performance of these waste materials as binding materials
with respect to compressive strength for sustainable rigid pavement
construction without activating them or using any activating solution.
For this purpose, the compressive strength test is done for GGBFS,
LFS, and SCBA, and later on, the artificial neural network (ANN) technique
is also used to check the novelty of results in a broad way. For the
same purpose, M40 grade concrete was made by incorporating different
selected waste materials in a varying proportion ranging from 0 to
35%. Based on the results obtained from the compressive strength test
for different curing periods, i.e., 7, 14, and 28 days, it was observed
that the GGBFS, LFS, and SCBA can be utilized individually up to 15%,
respectively. Another observation made from the findings was that
the use of LFS and SCBA in the individual form up to 20% was found
to be possible as the maximum reduction in strength was found to be
up to 2.63%. However, the cumulative impact of all these waste products
was also examined. Based on the data, it was concluded that the best
outcomes would arise from using these additives in combination to
replace cement in the mix by up to 30% (i.e., without compromising
the required characteristics of concrete), which will be proved as
an aid to the environment and the society also. Besides this, the
fluctuation in the compressive strength value of concrete mixes after
integrating various waste materials was also examined in order to
construct a model using the ANN approach. The model’s outcomes
suggest that the ANN model does a good job of forecasting the compressive
strength of concrete.