A Study on the Properties of Concrete Using Marble and Granite Waste as Coarse Aggregates - A Review

Today we are facing an important consumption and a growing need for aggregates because of the growth in industrial production, this situation has led to a fast decrease of available resources. On the other hand, a high volume of marble production has generated a considerable amount of waste materials. Leaving the waste materials to the nature directly can cause serious environmental problems therefore it is necessary to reuse marble waste. Marble has been commonly used as a building material since the ancient times. The industry’s disposal of the marble powder material, consisting of very fine powder, today constitutes one of the environmental problems around the world. In the building industry, Marble/Granite has been commonly used for various purposes like flooring, cladding etc, as a building material since the ancient times. Marble/Granite stone industry generates both solid waste and stone slurry. The focus of this study was on the use of waste marble as coarse aggregates in concrete. Because of continual depletion of quarries aggregates, construction materials are more and more judged by their ecological characteristics. The lack of technology and unscientific methods of quarrying marble in India has generated a huge quantity of waste of this valuable.