Effects of Waste Foundry Sand on Strength of Concrete

The green concretes are prepared by using untreated and treated waste foundry sand to partially substitute the natural sands, and the performances of the two kinds of concretes were compared and analyzed. The test results show that comparing with the reference concrete, the liquidity and compressive strength of the concrete with untreated waste foundry sand decrease with the creasing the content of the waste foundry sand; the effect tendency of treated waste foundry sand on the performances of concrete are consistent with those of untreated waste foundry sand, and the performances have a certain improvement. When using all the treated waste foundry sand to replace the fine sand in natural sand, it's found that treated waste foundry sand has hardly effect on the compressive strength of the concrete.