lightweight aggregate

Light weight: the addition of lightweight aggregates such as pumice.

Sunflower seed waste as lightweight aggregate in concrete production.

It is sometimes mixed with lightweight aggregates, such as perlite or vermiculite.

Utilizing lightweight aggregate, walls can weigh as little as 18 psf.

These usually use vermiculite as lightweight aggregate.

Mike Killet, the company's technical director, said the burnt shale is useful for the construction industry as a lightweight aggregate.

Thermal insulation blocks, lightweight aggregate and solid concrete blocks are all available from stock or direct to site.

Furnace-bottom ash and boiler slag may be used as lightweight aggregates for making concrete blocks.

The aggregate used by the Romans was often rubble, but lightweight aggregate in the upper levels served to reduce stresses.

- Mortars, which manufacturer expanded clay lightweight aggregates.

Lightweight aggregates give higher expansions.

These granules have a density of about 300 kg/m3, lower than most lightweight aggregates used for making lightweight concrete.

Less frequently, natural lightweight aggregates are used, for example pumice, scoria, volcanic cinder, tuff.

But he quickly grew restless and bought a 50 percent interest in the Texas Lightweight Aggregate Company, a concrete maker, for just over $300,000.

In a few cases, lightweight aggregates have been produced with additives such as fly-ash, blast-furnace slag or pumice.

The lightweight aggregate chosen for the stadium project has a long history of use as a concrete aggregate in the USA.

Pumice has a light colour and is used as a lightweight aggregate, an abrasive, in soap, cleansers and some rubber erasers.

Lightweight concrete is often achieved by adding air, foams, or lightweight aggregates, with the side effect that the strength is reduced.

Some examples of such usage are dimension stone (as an altered volcanic tuff), lightweight aggregate, pozzolanic cement, and soil conditioners.

Some lightweight aggregates, such as diatomite, perlite, and vermiculite, may be substituted for ground mica when used as filler.

Fly Ash -- Although fly-ash is suitable for production as a lightweight aggregate, it is used only in small amounts for this purpose.

Basket/Planter - A fine grade of peat with lightweight aggregate to ease water management and improve wettability in baskets and planters.

A lightweight block known as "INSOLITE" is produced using lightweight aggregate.

Lightweight (i.e. low density) ECC have been developed through the addition of air voids, glass bubbles, polymer spheres, and/or lightweight aggregate.

KBS Mortar is a blend of inorganic binders, fillers, and lightweight aggregates, interlaced with special additives and agents.