Noman

Rashid
Ihsan

Self Compacting
Concrete
Group #. 01

Contents:
What is Concrete?
Types of Concrete
What is self Compacting
Concrete?
Case history
Ingredients used in self
compacting concrete
How it works?
Admixtures for Self
compacting concrete
Properties
Permeability behavior
Mix design method for
self compacting
concrete
Workability of self
compacting concrete
Applications
Pros & Cons

What is Concrete?
Concrete is a heterogeneous
material that is a mixture of
Cement, fine aggregate, coarse
aggregate & water.
Concrete, a composite material
composed of cement, water, sand,
and gravel, the worlds most
widely used construction
materials. In 2003, more than 110
million metric tons of cement were
consumed in the United States.

Types of Concrete:

Shotcrete
Light weight concrete
Pre-stressed concrete
Cellular concrete
Self compacting concrete
Etc.

What is self compacting

concrete?
Self compacting concrete is
the concrete that do not need
compaction because it
compacts itself by its weight.

Case history:
In 1983, the problem of the
durability of concrete structure
was a major topic of interest in
japan. The creation of durable
concrete structure requires
adequate compacting by skilled
workers, however, the gradual
reduction in the number of
skilled workers in Japan's
construction industry has led to
a similar reduction in the quality
of construction work.

Case history:
One solution for the achievement
of durable concrete structure
independent of the quality of
construction
work
is
the
employment of self compacting
concrete,
which
can
be
compacted into every corner of a
formwork, purely by means of its
own weight and with-out the
need for vibrating compaction.
It is used in June 1991 in the
towers of Akashi kailyo bridge in

Ingredients used in self compacting

concrete:
Cement
Additions
Aggregates
Admixtures
Pigments
Fibers
Mixing water

How it works:
In this type of concrete we use
high density aggregates that
have high weight. When we pour
the concrete in any formwork, it
can easily compact and approach
to every corner of formwork from
its high weight. It is mostly used
in congested formworks where
steel is very congested and we
cannot do compaction with
vibrator, so that we use self
compacting concrete.

Ihsan-ul-Haq

Admixtures for self compacting

concrete:
Admixtures
are
those
ingredients in concrete other
than Portland cement, water,
and aggregates that are added
to the mixture immediately
before or during mixing.
These are used to gain different
properties
and
change
the
behavior of concrete.

Properties:

re are basic two types of properties;

resh state properties
Hardened properties

Properties:

resh state properties:

Filling ability
Passing ability
Stability

Hardened properties:
Compressive strength
Permeability

Fresh state properties:

Filling ability:
Filling ability or flow ability, is
the ability of the concrete to
completely flow (horizontally and
vertically upwards if necessary)
and fill all spaces in the
formwork without the addition of
any external compaction.
Self compacting concrete has a
suitable filling ability and its
high flow ability reduce the cost
of labor.

Fresh state properties:

Passing ability:
Passing ability is the ability of
the concrete to flow though
restricted spaces without
blocking. This property is related
to the maximum aggregate size
and aggregate volume, and the
L-Box test is the most common
method used to assess this
property.
In self compacting concrete we
use the high density aggregates

Fresh state properties:

Stability:
Stability, or resistance to
segregation, is the ability of the
concrete to remain uniform and
cohesive throughout the entire
construction process.
In self compacting concrete we
use low water/cement ratio and
high content of fines to reduce
the bleeding.

Hardened state properties:

Compressive strength:
We all know that the concrete is
weak in tension and
comparatively very strong in
compression. In 2003 Gibbs &
Shu (professors of university of
Tokyo) test the specimen of
normal concrete and self
compacting concrete, they found
that after 28 days curing, the
compressive strength of both
concretes(normal & self

Permeability behavior of self

compacting concrete:
Permeability:
Permeability is defined as the
rate of flow of moisture
through concrete under a
pressure gradient.
The addition of fly ash
generally reduces the
permeability of concrete, so
okamura test the permeability
of self compacting concrete
and found that the
permeability of self

Rashid Ali

Mix design method for self

compacting concrete:
Mix design steps:
Assume air content by
percentage of concrete
volume.
Input the coarse aggregate
blending by percentage weight
of total coarse aggregate.
Adjust the percentage of fine
aggregate volume in mortar
volume.

Mix design method for self

compacting concrete:
Mix design steps:
Adjust the percentage of fine
aggregate volume in mortar
volume.
Obtain the required paste
volume.
Adopt suitable water/ cement
ratio by weight.
Input the percentage
replacement of fly ash by
weight of cementations
material.

Mix design method for self

compacting concrete:
Material properties:

Workability of self compacting

concrete:
Workability:
Workability is defined either
qualitatively as the ease of
placement.
In self compacting concrete,
approximate w/c ratio is 0.680.71 and we use high content of
fines so that it gives high
workability.
It can easily judged from this
slump test.

Advantages of self compacting

concrete:
Advantages:
It is used in very congested
reinforced region.
It can easily placed because its
workability is very high.
It is self compacted so we
dont need skilled labor to
compact the concrete.
It can be used in rapid
construction
It can be used in narrow shells
& complex shapes.

Advantages of self compacting

concrete:
Disadvantages:
The main disadvantage of self
compacting concrete is cost
because of high content of
Portland cement and chemical
admixtures.