1UG students, Department of Civil Engineering, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil
2UG students, Department of Civil Engineering, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil
3UG students, Department of Civil Engineering, Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil
4Principal Scientist, CSIR-CECRI, Karaikudi
Online published on 25 December, 2015.
Growth of any country remains in utilization of industrial and agro waste for infrastructure of facilities. Developing country like India certainly needs utilization of industrial waste like paper sludge in construction industry to produce various building materials. Also it is a duty of every Civil Engineer to engage himself in developing newer materials from the waste materials available on earth's crust, because in every construction project 70%of cost goes for the materials. If this can be reduced, subsequently the cost of construction will certainly be reduced and as a consequence, many homeless people of our country will adequately be housed. Keeping this in mind an attempt is made to utilize paper sludge obtained from local paper industry is used with cement mortar for preparation of insulating roof tiles and light weight bricks. The addition of paper sludge has been varied from 0% to 150% by weight of cement. All required mechanical, physical, chemical and thermal insulation studies have been carried out systematically and the results are presented and discussed in detail to explore the possibility of using this paper sludge in construction industry.
Paper sludge, cement mortar, insulating tiles, light weight bricks
