Post Graduate Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Prist University, Trichy-Thanjavur Highway, Vallam, Thanjavur, India
Online published on 21 November, 2017.
The addition of pozzolanic materials on concrete may reduce the usage of cement on the concrete. Some pozzolanic materials like metakaolin, silicafume are used at certain percentage instead of cement. The sand plays the vital role on the concrete, but now a day due to some socio-economic problems the production of natural sand was reduced at the same time the cost of natural sand was increased. To balance this problem there would be a suitable replacement for the sand is needed. Such replacement is the Manufacturing sand, simply called as M-sand. Hereby the metakaolin and silicafume are added instead of cement at certain percentage and M-sand is used instead of natural sand at 100%. The metakaolin and silica fume are added on the cement individually as well as mixed state in different combinations. The main theme of this project is to find the strength and durability characteristics of the hardened concrete at these host materials on the concrete on various proportions.
Metakaolin, Silicon, Sorptivity test
