An Experimental Study on Strength Development of Concrete Using Black Cotton Soil

In the present Scenario, different admixtures and different composite materials like fly ash, are used for making concrete and replaced with some quantity of cement as it's the costliest material. In this experimental setup, we replace certain percentage of cement with Black Cotton Soil to enhance compressive strength of Concrete. The main governing property of black cotton soil is that when water is added to the soil, it swells up and on drying it forms a hard rock like material. In the Malwa region in central India there are massive deposits of Black Cotton soil. It is freely available as it is of no use as far as vegetation and farming is concerned. When concrete is prepared on a very large scale, replacing cement by black cotton soil will even decrease the cost of the entire project to an appreciable extent. This will make any project more economical by using the Waste materials or can say Waste as an Asset. Cubes and Beams were casted for checking the Compressive and Flexural Strength of Concrete. Polypropylene Fibre was also added to Beams to further enhance the Flexural Strength.