PREDICTION OF COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF

CONCRETE WITH AGRICULTURAL WASTE AND NATURAL

FIBRE
Nagaraja M L1, T S Malleshaiah12,
1
Associate Professor,Department of Civil Engineering&Visvesvaraya Technological university, India
2
Department of Civil Engineering&Visvesvaraya Technological university, India
nagarajaml2003@gmail.com@gmail.com; Mallesh.ts64@gmail.com;

Abstract— Concrete is the world’s most widely used construction material. Concrete is a mixture Aggregates
usually sand and gravel However, environmental concerns both in terms of Damage caused by the extraction
of raw material and carrot powder provides high strength which has lower density than carbon fiber. The
utilization of carrot, in the form of carrot powder, in concrete has received considerable attention in recent
years. On this matter, a study has been conducted to look into the performance of carrot powder as cement
replacement material in concrete.

The study focuses on the compressive strength and spilt tensile strength performance of the blended concrete
containing different percentage of carrot powder. The cement is replaced accordingly with the percentage of
2 %, 4%, 6% by weight. Concrete cubes and cylinder are tested at the age of 7 and 28 days. In addition, the
effect of temperature to the strength performance is included in the study. Finally, the strength performance
of carrot powder studied in this work. The results show that the strength development of concrete blended
with carrot powder is enhanced. It is found that 6% replacement appears to be the optimum replacement
where concrete exhibits enhanced compressive strength and spilt tensile strength at all ages.

I. INTRODUCTION
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. In recent times, there
is a lot of development in the field of concrete technology.In the manufacture of the
constituents of the concrete large amount of energy is consumed and greenhouse gases are
evolved, one tone of CO2 is released by industry for producing a tone of cement.So it is
necessary to partial replacement of cement with bauxite tailing(red mud), fly ash ,rice
husk ,GGBS, Carrot powder etc. Reinforced concrete construction for high-rise buildings
provides inherent stiffness, mass, and ductility.

Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. In recent times, there
is a lot of development in the field of concrete technology. Many investigators have been
developed several techniques to improve workability, strength, durability parameters of
the concrete. Enormous studies have been carried out to investigate the possibility of
utilizing a wide range of materials as partial replacement material for cement in the
preparation of concrete.

The use of supplementary cementatious material in the preparation of concrete may result
in major saving of energy, cost and reduction in environmental pollution. It is also helps to
improve workability, strength, durability and chemical resistance of concrete. There are
number of supplementary cementatious material are available such as carrot powder, fly
ash, silica fume, slag cement, rice husk.
 II. LITERATURE REVIEW

Nithesh naik and basavanna shivamurthy(2014); This paper presents the results of an
experimental study carried out to find the effect off carrot powder by partial replacement of
cement of M-20 grade concrete, in terms of improved performance on compressive, and split
tensile strength. The controlled concrete specimen of M-20 grade was prepared using OPC 53
grade cement. The other specimens were prepared by replacing cement with 6% of cp at 2%,
4%, 6% and 8%. The various strengths were compared with controlled specimens leading to a
conclusion that there is an increase in compressive strength up to 48.88%, and split tensile
strength up to 54%. Addition of carrot powder (cp) resulted in enhanced early strength and
ultimate strength of concrete. The partial replacement of cement results in reduction in the
emission of green gases. The easy availability of carrot powder and their lesser cost affects in
cheaper economy.

Pazarincevic and baras (2014) ;One of the approaches in improving the durability of
concrete is to use blended cement materials such as silica fume, slag and more recently,
carrot powder. This study presents the results of different mechanical properties of concrete
such as compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural concrete by partially
replacing cement with cp and silica fume. The replacement of carrot powder is varied from
2%, 4%, 6% and 8% and silica fume from 3%, 4% and 5%. The property of concrete in fresh
state, that is the workability is also studied during the present investigation. The optimum
doses of silica fume and carrot powder in combination were found to be 3% and 8% (by
weight) respectively, when used as part replacement of ordinary Portland cement. The 28 day
Compressive strength increases with increase in percentage of CP while in case of slica fume
strength increases up to 15% replacement level and then starts decreasing. And the 7 day
compressive strength of concrete generally decreases with the increasing CP content at all the
Silica fume contents.

Jigar k.sevalia,niravB.Siddpura,chethanS,Agarwal(2017) ;The present paper is aimed

to investigate the influence of carrot powder(cp) and Portland slag Cement(PSC) on corrosion
behaviour of concrete. For this purpose, Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) was replaced by
6%CP by weight and reamade. The standard concrete specimens were prepared for both
compressive strength and half- cell potential measurement. For the aforesaid experiments, the
specimens were cast with varying water to binder ratios (w/b) such as 0.45, 0.5 and 0.55 and
exposed to 0%, 3%, 5% and 7.5% of sodium chloride (NaCl) solution. The specimens were
tested at wide range of curing ages namely 7, 28, 56, 90 and 180 days. The effects of CP, w/b
ratio, age, and NaCl exposure upon concrete were demonstrated in this investigation along
with the comparison of results of both CP and PSC concrete were done. It was also observed
that concrete with CP shows improved performance as compared to concrete with PSC.
 Concrete with CP shows high early-age compressive strength due to the higher rate of
hydration contributed by CP. Improved performance is exhibited in the case of concrete with
CP specimens both the tests including compressive strength and half-cell potential. It is clear
that for the concrete with CP performing better in corrosion resistance than that of the
concrete with PSC.

III. METHODOLOGY
Materials Used:
1. Ordinary portland cement:
In this experimental investigation cement of 53 grade conforming to IS: 12269- 1987 has
been used to determine the physical properties of cement.
TABLE I
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CEMENT

Sl. PROPERTIES TEST

No. RESULTS
1 Specific gravity 3.10
2 Standard 33%
Consistency
3 Setting time
a) Initial time 30 mins

2. Coarse aggregates:
The aggregates whose size is greater than 4.75 mm are termed as coarse aggregates. In the
present investigation crushed angular type of aggregates which are free from impurities is
used which is collected from locally available crusher. Many types of tests are done on coarse
aggregates which are tabulated in the below table II.

TABLE II
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COARSE AGGREGATE

Sl. PROPERTIE TEST

No. S RESULTS

1 Specific 2.74
gravity

2 Water 0.3%
absorption

3 Fineness 8.01
modulus

IV. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

TESTS RESULTS:

TABLE II
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF CONCRETE

TYPES COMPRES COMPRESSION COMPRESSION

SION STRENGTH STRENGTH
STRENGT (N/MM^2)14TH (N/MM^2)28TH
H DAY DAY
(N/MM^2)
7TH DAY
% OF CARROT 11.2 - -
POWDER
0% 12.5 - -
2% 13.6 - -
4% 14.9 - -

Compressive strength graph.

 V. CONCLUSION

 The work carried out to find the optimum value of compressive strength of
concrete with Carrot powder.
 Can control cracking due to plastic shrinkage and to drying shrinkage and reduce
bleeding of water. Some types of agro wastes produce greater impact, abrasion,
and shatter– resistance in concrete.
 Reduce crack widths and control the crack widths tightly, thus improving
durability. Reduce steel reinforcement requirements & There is animprovement of
ductility after cracking of concrete The following conclusions have been drawn
from the present work.
 Values of compressive strength and spilt tensile strength ofconcrete with carrot
powder after 28 days . From the above results, we can conclude that 6% of cement
replaced by carrot powder gives the optimum value.
 The mix design procedure described by modifying the IS: 10262-2019 in this
project

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