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Vol. 1, No. 2 (2025)

Ecological Green materials through Odorous Eggshell-created Fired Bricks for Additive Manufacturing Usage

C. E. Igibah

Department of Civil Engineering

O. O. Amu

Department of Civil Engineering

C. Fapohunda

Department of Civil Engineering

Abstract

The intensifying demand for cement-created composites (CCCs) owing to the expansion of infrastructure leads to environmental effluence and exhaustion of natural materials. Besides, dumping of agro-gotten waste and industrial items in landfills generate adverse impacts. Thus, creating waste based CCCs by partially substituting cement through extending manufacturing approach (EMA) which is one of additive manufacturing (AM) style will be a favourable technique. EMA is a technique that possess numerous advantages like lesser fabrication time, casing convenience, reducing material wastage and so forth. Strength enrichment of additively invented structures is an active area of research and much investigation was evolved in terms of creating state-of-the-art feedstock for AM. Even though there are others composites that are commercially available with enriched properties, but most of them can both be compare with eggshell in terms of naturally available calcium carbonate, sustainability and recyclable nature. The eggshell dust (ESD) was utilizing to partially substitute cement at various proportion, then analysis such as particle size distribution and BET surface area, soil enhancer, strength and durability, that is sorptivity and absorption degree of concrete was carried out. The data-set gotten via experimentation technique was used to predict CCCs-created model using machine learning modeller. The compressive strength was ascertained when ESD was utilized as a cement stand-in of 12.5%, which was 9.82% greater than the equivalent mix as a control. What’s more, the developed CCCs-created model unveiled a pleasing level of consensus with the investigational verdicts, hence signifying their pertinency in evaluating CCCs that integrates ESD

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Keywords

  • Cement-created composites
  • Additive manufacturing
  • Eggshell
  • extreme gradient boosting regressor
  • Sorptivity

How to Cite

C. E. Igibah, O. O. Amu & C. Fapohunda (2025), Ecological Green materials through Odorous Eggshell-created Fired Bricks for Additive Manufacturing Usage, Nigerian Journal of Applied Science and Innovative Technology, 1(2), 246–258, Retrieved from https://nijasit.vercel.app/article/17