Quality evaluation of steel, aluminum, and road material recycled from end-of-life urban buildings in Japan in terms of total material requirement

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 555-565

  Yamasue, Eiji ^a,b   Minamino, Ryota ^a   Tanikawa, Hiroki ^c   Daigo, Ichiro ^d   Okumura, Hideyuki ^e   Ishihara, Keiichi N ^e   Brunner, Paul H ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Industrial ecology; Ore; Scrap sorting; Total material requirement (TMR); Urban mining; Urban tailings

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CONCRETE PRODUCTS; ORES; QUALITY CONTROL; RECYCLING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; STEEL SCRAP; URBAN GROWTH; WOODEN BUILDINGS;

END-OF-LIFE BUILDINGS; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; QUALITY OF MATERIALS; RECYCLING OF MATERIALS; SCRAP SORTING; SUB-SURFACE MATERIALS; TOTAL MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS; TRADITIONAL WOODEN STRUCTURES;

SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING;

ALUMINUM; BUILDING; CEMENT; CONCRETE STRUCTURE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; RECYCLING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; STEEL; TAILINGS; TRADE-OFF; URBAN DESIGN;

JAPAN;

EID: 84881377022     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12014     Document Type: Article

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