Effect on Strength Properties of M30 Grade of Concrete by Using Waste Wood Powder as Partial Replacement of Sand

Saw dust is also known as wooden dust. It is the result of cutting, drilling wood.it is composed of fine particles of wood, certain animals, birds and insects which live in wood such as carpenter ant are also responsible for producing the wooden dust. It is produced as a small irregular chips or small garbage of wood during sawing of logs of timber into different sizes. In this work partial replacement of waste wood powder is investigatedby varying proportion in the concrete. The replacement of fine aggregate (sand) with certain wooden powder in concrete that makes the structure more light in weight. The workability, strength and durability test are studied in this paper. The most important properties of concrete is the compressive strength. Also, increasing the wooden dust in corporation caused decreases in unit weights and compressive strength values of mortars with a parallel increase in water absorption values at all ages. The replacement of fine aggregates (sand) with wooden powder gives the properties and the benefits in the actual production of concrete.