“A STUDY OF PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF FINE AGGREGATE WITH

WASTE GLASS GRANULES IN STANDARD GRADE AND HIGH

STRENGTH CONCRETE”
A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement

For The Award of the Degree Of

MASTER OF ENGINEERING

In

CIVIL ENGINEERING

With Specialization in Structural Engineering

by

K. RAHUL
(1601-16-741-006)

Under the guidance of

Dr. M. V. KRISHNA RAO

PROFESSOR

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

CHAITANYA BHARATHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (A)

GANDIPET, HYDERABAD – 75 (TS)

2017- 2018

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 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

CHAITANYA BHARATHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (A)

GANDIPET, HYDERABAD-75 (TS)

M.E. DISSERTATION EVALUATION SHEET

Name of the candidate : K. RAHUL

Roll no : 1601-16-741-006

Specialization : Structural Engineering

Date of external viva voce :

Grade :

Signature of the external examiner :

Supervisor Chairman BOS

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 Head of the Department

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the dissertation work entitled “A STUDY OF

PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF FINE AGGREGATE WITH WASTE
GLASS GRANULES IN STANDARD GRADE AND HIGH STRENGTH
CONCRETE is a bonafide work of student Mr. K. RAHUL bearing Roll.
No 1601-16-741-006 submitted towards partial fulfilment for the award of
degree of Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering with specialization in
Structural Engineering during the academic year 2017-2018 of Chaitanya
Bharathi Institute of Technology (Autonomous), Hyderabad. The results
embodied in this work are not submitted to any other university or institute for
the award of any degree or diploma.

Dr. M. V. KRISHNA RAO Dr. M. KOTI REDDY

Supervisor Professor and Head,
Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering
Dept. of Civil Engineering

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 DECLARATION

This is to certify that the work reported in the present thesis titled “A STUDY OF
PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF FINE AGGREGATE WITH WASTE
GLASS GRANULES IN STANDARD GRADE AND HIGH
STRENGTH CONCRETE” is a record of work done in the department of Civil
Engineering in Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (A), Hyderabad.

No part of the dissertation is copied from books/journals/internet and wherever the portion
is taken, the same has been duly referred in the text. The report is based on the project
work done entirely and not copied from any other source.

HYDERABAD K.RAHUL

DATE:

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express deep sense of gratitude to my Project Guide Dr. M. V. KRISHNA
RAO, Assistant professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute
of Technology (A) for his consistent help, support and encouragement throughout the entire
duration of the project.

I express heartfelt thanks to Dr. M. KOTI REDDY, Professor and Head of

Department of Civil Engineering for his encouragement and support throughout the work.

I am thankful to Dr. P. RAVINDER REDDY, Principal, Chaithanya Bharathi

Institute of Technology (A) for providing necessary infrastructure in the college.

I thank Dr. N.R. Dakshina Murthy, Coordinator – PG Program in Civil Engineering, Sri
Y. S. Chandrasekhar Reddy Lab Assistant& Sri Pochaiah Mason, in Structural Engineering
laboratory for their assistance in casting and testing of test specimens required for project
work.

Finally, I would like to thank all those people whom I haven’t mentioned but who
have played a direct or indirect role in completing this project.

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 ABSTRACT
The global demand for construction quality aggregates is expected to be more than
51 billion metric tons by 2019. The mining, processing and transportation operations for
such a large quantity of aggregate consume a huge amount of energy and adversely effect
the ecological areas and river beds. Ever increasing demand of quality aggregates has
resulted in a faster rate of depletion of natural sources such as rocks, river as well as land
quarried sand, in many parts of the world endangering sustainable developments. Fine
aggregate has notable influence on concrete properties. The sustainability in concrete is
generally achieved through reduced mining of natural recourses required for the
manufacturing of its basic constitutes by recycling of suitable industrial bi-products or
post-consumer materials including construction and demolition waste.

In the present study an attempt is made to find the optimum partial replacement of
Natural Fine aggregate with Waste Glass Aggregate. Fine aggregates are varied in 4%,
8%, 12%, 16% and 20% Cubes, Cylinders and Prisms were casted and strengths are
determined for 28 days. An investigation on the properties of Fine Aggregate like
compressive strength, split tensile strength, Flexural Strength, Ultrasonic pulse velocity,
sorptivity is made. Results obtained shows that Natural Fine aggregate can be replaced
with Waste Glass aggregate for all the works under M40 and M70 concrete.

Keywords: Waste Glass Aggregate Concrete, Natural coarse aggregate, Compressive Strength,
Split Tensile Strength, Flexural Strength Rebound number, ultrasonic pulse velocity,sorptivity.

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