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Electric arc furnace slag (EAFS) is a solid waste from steel making industrial. Previously, EAFS was deposited, recycled or used as fertilizer. In present study, EAFS is used as one of the raw materials in ceramic tile production. EAFS added tiles samples have been prepared by mixing of EAFS with ball clay, quartz and feldspar. The feldspar content was varied at various weight percentages (0, 10 and 20 %) to observe their effect on the produced samples. The raw materials mixture was pressed and then sintered at temperature range 1100°C-1175°C for 1 hour. In general, results shows that, sample with higher content of feldspar require shorter vitrification range and having relatively higher density and good strength properties. In addition, MOR value was increasing as the sintering temperature was increasing. However when the temperature reached 1175°C, the MOR was dropped which may be due to the early vitrification of the compositions, resulting in over firing, grain growth and recrystallization. Whereas the density values are relatively higher than the conventional vitreous ceramic tiles due to the presence of high amount of iron oxide from the EAFS.

The shajiang river bridge on the appearance test, concrete rebound detection, concrete cover depth detection, concrete carbonation depth detection, concrete chlorine ion content detection, and the detection results in statistics and analysis. Based on the bridge of the service the atmospheric environment parameters and testing data, the paper calculates and analyzes the main stress components the carbonation bridge reliability index and remaining life of carbide, assessing the bridge for the service life and reinforcement maintenance and offer the scientific basis.

Project stakeholders play an important role in the implementation process of sustainable construction. Due to different attributes of each stakeholder in the project, their importance level is different. This paper firstly identifies 13 project stakeholders based on Chinese construction project management mechanism and then a questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate their importance. This finding indicates that client and government play extremely important role in the sustainable construction; all the project stakeholders are important in the three aspects and the importance level order of project stakeholders in the three aspects is different.