ABSTRACT

Due to the day by day innovations and development in construction field, the use of natural
aggregates is very high and at the same time production of solid wastes from the demolitions of
constructions is also very high. Because of these reasons the reuse of Glass powder came into the
picture to reduce the solid waste and to reduce the scarcity of natural aggregates. Crushed waste
Glass powder are used as a replacement to the fine aggregate.

In developing countries where concrete is widely used, the high and steadily increasing
cost of concrete has made construction very expensive. This coupled with deleterious effect of
concrete production on the environment has led to studies on various materials which could be
used as partial replacement for coarse aggregate. This project is experimented to reduce the cost
of concrete. The only way to reduce and tackle these problems is reuse and recycles. In this project
work, experiments have been conducted with the collection of materials required and data required
for mix design are obtained.

Glass fines which are the wastes obtained while cutting the Glass for other works. The
Glass pieces are remained is disposed on the lands. Disposing this Glass fines is a major problem
Hence an effect is made to utilize this fine Glass powder in as a filler material in concrete. For that
the basic properties of Glass fines such as size, fineness, specific gravity, and were tested. The
result shows that the property of Glass fines is similar to that of ordinary sand. Therefore, Glass
fines can be effectively used as a replacement material for fine aggregate in concrete. For
investigation purpose cubes are casted with 10 different proportions of Glass fines and fine
aggregate. The replacement percentage of Glass fines to fine aggregate are 5, 10,15, 20,25, 30,35,
40,45 and 50 for M25 mix grade concrete is designed as per Indian standard code for conventional
concrete. specimens are tested after 7&28 days of curing, for compression strength, and flexural
strength.