• Environmental study and valorization of an ashy waste: case of pyrrhotite ash 

      Achik, Maryam; Oulmekki, Amel; Ijjaali, Mustapha; Benmoussa, Hayat; Kizinievič, Olga (IOP Conference series: materials science and engineering: 4th International Conference on Innovative Materials, Structures and Technologies (IMST 2019), 25–27 September 2019, Riga, Latvia, 2019)
      Pyrrhotite ash is an industrial waste which is currently stored in large quantities in a large area in southwest of Morocco. The literature review revealed that this waste has been used by some cement industries and has ...
    • Evaluation of physical and mechanical properties of fired-clay bricks incorporating both mineral and organic wastes 

      Achik, Maryam; Benmoussa, Hayat; Oulmekki, Abdellah; Ijjaali, M.; EL Moudden, N.; Kizinievič, Olga; Kizinievič, Viktor (The 13th international conference “Modern building materials, structures and techniques”, 16–17 May, 2019, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019)
      The clay brick is one of the oldest building materials, and as the use of waste in the bricks can reduce clay consummation and the environmental burden due to the accumulation of waste, the present study was chosen, the ...
    • Evaluation of physical and mechanical properties of fired-clay bricks incorporating both mineral and organic wastes 

      Achik, Maryam; Benmoussa, Hayat; Oulmekki, Abdellah; Ijjaali, M.; EL Moudden, N.; Kizinievic, Olga; Kizinievic, Viktor (International Conference Modern Building Materials, Structures and Techniques (MBMST 2019), 2019)
      The clay brick is one of the oldest building materials, and as the use of waste in the bricks can reduce clay consummation and the environmental burden due to the accumulation of waste, the present study was chosen, the ...
    • Evaluation of technological properties of fired clay bricks containing pyrrhotite ash 

      Achik, Maryam; Benmoussa, Hayat; Oulmekki, Abdellah; Ijjaali, Mustapha; El Moudden, Noureddine; Touache, Abdelhamid; Álvaro, Gil Gonzalez; Rivera, Francisco Guitián; Infantes-Molina, Antonia; Eliche-Quesada, Dolores; Kizinievič, Olga (Construction and building materials, 2021)
      This work investigates the recycling of pyrrhotite ash (PA) waste as a method to provide a secondary raw material for clay brick bodies. PA is an industrial waste mainly composed by iron oxide particles (64,9 wt%). It was ...
    • Recycling argan nut shell and wheat straw as a porous agent in the production of clay masonry units 

      Moumni, Boutaina; Achik, Maryam; Benmoussa, Hayat; Oulmekki, Abdallah; Touache, Abdelhamid; El Moudden, Noureddine; Charroud, Mohammed; Eliche-Quesada, Dolores; Kizinievič, Olga; Kizinievič, Viktor; Infantes-Molina, Antonia; Gil Gonzalez, Álvaro; Guitián Rivera, Francisco (Construction and building materials, 2023)
      The present work aims to study and compare the effect of incorporating argan nut shell (ANS) and wheat straw (WS) into clay mixtures as construction materials additives on physical, mechanical, structural, and thermal ...
    • Towards the use of yellow clay in fired bricks 

      Achik, Maryam; Moumni, Boutaina; Benmoussa, Hayat; Abdellah, Oulmekki; Touache, Abdelhamid; Álvaro, Gil Gonzalez; Rivera, Francisco Guitián; Infantes-Molina, Antonia; Eliche-Quesada, Dolores; Kizinievič, Olga (Clay and clay minerals: [working title], 2021)
      This chapter deals with the study of the possibility of using yellow clay - which was only used in pottery so far- in the civil engineering field as building materials, especially in the field of fired bricks. With the aim ...