Investigation of Thermal and Mechanical Behaviors of Plaster Mixed with Granite Cutting Waste

Year 2025, Volume: 29 Issue: 5, 510 - 521, 27.10.2025

Onur Yontar , Arife Kübra Yontar , Emre Şirin

https://doi.org/10.16984/saufenbilder.1617813

Abstract

This study investigated the usability of granite cutting waste in plaster. In the samples produced in the study, granite dust was observed with a scanning electron microscope, and it was homogeneously distributed in the microstructures. The presence of calcite, quartz, portlandite, hematite, and magnesium oxide phases in the samples was detected with an X-ray diffractometer. It was calculated that the highest compressive strength was obtained by adding 30% granite dust. In the samples whose thermal conductivities were examined by imaging with a thermal camera, it was determined that the lowest conductivity belonged to the sample containing 30% granite dust. This study revealed that plaster with high mechanical strength and low thermal conductivity could be produced by adding 30% granite dust.

Keywords

Granite cutting waste , Plaster , Thermal conductivity , Compressive strength

Thanks

The waste-cut granite powders used in this study were supplied by Samsun Anakent Turizm Ticaret A.Ş., which belongs to Samsun Metropolitan Municipality

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