AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON LIGHT

WEIGHT AGGREGATE CONCRETE USING

PUMICE STONE AS A PARTIAL REPACEMENT TO
COARSE AGGREGATE
A thesis Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
award of degree of
Bachelor of technology
in
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Submitted by

Under the Esteemed guidance of

Asst. Professor

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

GITE ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(Approved by AICTE-New Delhi,Permanently affiliated to JNTUK,Kakinada)
RAJAMAHENDRAVARM

2014-2018
 GITE ENGINEERING COLLEGE
(Approved by AICTE-New Delhi,Permanently affiliated to JNTUK,Kakinada)

RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM
Department of Civil Engineering

CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project work titled AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

ON LIGHT WEIGHT AGGREGATE CONCRETE USING PUMICE STONE AS
A PARTIAL REPACEMENT TO COARSE AGGREGATE submitted by
to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada during the
academic year in partial fulfillment for the award of Degree of BACHELOR OF
TECHNOLOGY in CIVIL ENGINEERING is a record of bonafide work carried out
by him.

GUIDE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

External Examiner
 DECLARATION
We, here by declare that this project “AN
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON LIGHT WEIGHT AGGREGATE CONCRETE
USING PUMICE STONE AS A PARTIAL REPACEMENT TO COARSE
AGGREGATE” has been prepared in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award
of degree of BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY, in DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL
ENGINEERING of GITE ENGINEERING COLLEGE is an authentic record of our own
work carried out under the supervision of DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL

ENGINEERING, GITE ENGINEERING COLLEGE,RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM

The matter embodied in the dissertations has not been submitted by us for the award
of any other degree. Further, the technical details furnished in the various chapters in the
thesis are purely relevant to the above project and there is no deviation from the theoretical
point of view with respect to study and analysis
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We take the opportunity to express out a profound thanks and a deep sense of gratitude
to our guide Asst. Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, GITE
ENGINEERING COLLEGE,RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM, who permitted us to carry out our
Bachelor of Technology project work under his able guidance. Her keen interest guidance
help and sustaining encouragement have always been inspiring. We express our deep seated
sense of obligation to her as she made it possible for us to submit the thesis in the present
form.
We, express our deep sense of gratitude to our beloved principle, for
his valuable guidance and for permitting us to carry out this project.
It gives us great pleasure to express our heartfelt gratitude to our Head of the
department Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
Gite Engineering college, Rajamahendravaram, for his guidance, professional suggestions,
thought provoking discussions, patience and endless help .His guidance in performing our
programming, thesis documentation and developing presentation skills are greatly
acknowledged.

We are extremely thankful to our project coordinator , Asst.

professor, in GITE Engineering college, Rajamahendravaram, for his encouragement and
cooperation in successful completion of this investigation work.

We are also thankful to all Staff and Technicians of Civil Engineering Department
for their support during the course of the work and to the Library Staff of the college for the
reference books which helped us gathering some information about the project.

With gratitude,
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF FIGURES

NOTATIONS

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Light Weight Aggregates 1

1.2 Light Weight Concrete 2

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 4-5

CHAPTER 3: EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION 6-24

CHAPTER 4:TEST RESULTS & DISCUSSIONS 25-29

CHAPTER 5: PHOTOGRAPHS 30-31

CONCLUSIONS 32

REFERENCE 33
 LIST O FIGURES

S.NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE NO.

1 Grading curve of fine aggregate 9

2. Grading curve of Coarse aggregate 20mm 10

3. Grading curve of Coarse aggregate 10mm 11
4. Pumice Stone 13
5. Fly Ash 17
6. Graph showing compressive strengths for various 26
proportions of pumice stone
7. Graph showing Tensile strengths for various 27
proportions of pumice stone
8. Compressive Strength of M30 concrete using mineral 28
admixture and Pumice Stone
9 Split tensile Strength of M30 concrete using mineral 29
admixture and Pumice Stone
10 Cubes, Cylinders after concreting 30

11 Cube Specimen during failure 30

12 Cylinder specimen during failure 31

 LIST OF TABLES

TTABLE NO DESCRIPTION PAGE NO

3.1 Properties of Fine Aggregate 8

3.2 Sieve Analysis of Fine Aggregate 8

3.3 Sieve Analysis of 20 mm Coarse Aggregate 10

Sieve Analysis of 10mm Coarse Aggregate

3.4 11

3.5 Physical Property and Chemical Composition of Fly Ash 17

Test Results for various proportions of mineral admixtures

4.1 and light weight coarse aggregate (Pumice Stone) 25

4.2 compressive strength of Cubes casted with varying 26

proportions of light weight aggregate
4.3 compressive strength of Cylinders casted with varying 27
proportions of mineral admixtures
Compressive and Split properties of M30 concrete using
4.4 28
mineral admixture and Pumice Stone
.
CHAPTER – I
CHAPTER – II
CHAPTER – III
CHAPTER – IV