Getty Images) Mining sand to use in concrete and other industrial purposes is, if anything, even more destructive. Sand for construction is most often mined from rivers. It’s easy to pull the ...

The DIP method employed sieving, clicking photos from different directions ... concrete and makes up for the effects of poor manufacturing of the sand particles, thus improving the concrete strength.

Replacing sand with diamond, or aluminum oxide, would probably make for stronger and/or lighter concrete as well, but this is straight up no brainer stupid. TechGazer January 29, 2024 08:54 AM ...

The world's reliance on concrete, the second most consumed material after water, is leading to an environmental and resource crisis, with sand mining rates outstripping natural replenishment.

Swapping some of the sand in concrete for spent coffee grounds could increase the strength of concrete by nearly 30%, a new study suggests. A whopping 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed ...

Rice University researchers have uncovered a promising alternative to sand in concrete – graphene derived from metallurgical coke, a coal-based product. This discovery addresses the ...

A recent study laid out how they initially tried mixing untreated coffee grounds into concrete, replacing some of the sand that’s normally used in the mix. In its raw state, the coffee waste ...

That sediment is special, indeed. Desert sand from, say, the Sahara is no good for making concrete because it’s too rounded and uniform. Over millennia, winds push those grains around ...

With funding from a Jakarta-based waste-management company called Awina, Zuraida set out to determine how much sand could be swapped for shredded nappies to create useful concrete and mortar.

They collected used coffee grounds from several local cafes and investigated whether they could be used to replace some of the sand that is typically incorporated into concrete as filler.