Throughout the world, there is an increasing focus on the need to recycle and to more fully utilize by-products of manufacturing processes in an attempt to conserve our finite natural resources. Technical evaluation supported by field experience has shown that a by-product such as iron blast furnace slag has, in many applications, properties suitable to replace or supplement and improve traditional materials.

This booklet, which is supplementary to the Association’s Guide to the Use of Slag in Roads, reviews in some detail the properties of slag in cement and concrete. As there are many types of slag, it should be particularly noted that the term slag used throughout this booklet refers specifically to metallurgical slag produced in modern iron blast furnaces, i.e.: iron blast furnace slag and not basic oxygen steel slag or electric arc furnace slag, which are steel furnace slags. Copies are available to members at a cost of $10.00 each, non-members $15.00, plus postage and handling.

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