EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON REPLACEMENT OF FINE

AGGREGATE BY QUARY DUST CONCRETE

ABSTRACT

It is very important to make the concrete economical. Therefore the

present work has initiated to make the concrete economical by
replacing the natural sand by crushed sand in the concrete. The
performance of compressive strength of M40 Grade artificial sand
concrete with replacement of river sand to manufactured/Artificial
sand. This necessitates huge demand of concrete for infrastructure
development worldwide and extreme scarcity of natural sand
availability. Investigation carried out by varying 0 to 100%
replacement of natural sand using manufactured sand in M40 mix
with super plasticizer as an admixture. The super plasticizer is used as
admixture of dosage 0.5% volume fraction in all concrete mixes. The
concrete specimens were cured on normal moist, curing under normal
atmospheric temperature. The compressive strength, split tensile
Strength, and flexural strength were determined at 7, 14 and 28 days.
Current investigation revealed that M 40 Grade concrete using
complete manufactured sand with super plasticizer yielded an
excesses compressive strength of 9.50%, 9.80% and 10.45%
compared to conventional concrete for 7 days, 14 days and 28 days
respectively. It also revealed that workability of concrete with
manufactured sand could be increased considerably with super
plasticizer.  Hence M40 Grade concrete with manufactured sand was
found to increase the compressive strength of concrete on all ages
when compared to conventional concrete with river sand. Split
Tensile Strength also increased to 10.61% more at 28 days
respectively compared to conventional concrete.