CREEP PEFORMANCE OF CONCRETE BEAMS

CONTAINING RICE HUSK ASH

Winfred Nthuka Mutungi

Reg.No: CE300-0021/2018 1

Supervisor: Prof. R.N. Mutuku, Dr. T. Nyomboi

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INTRODUCTIO
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• Rice husk ash (RHA) is an agricultural by-product of rice farming.
• The physical and chemical properties of RHA have been studied and
its found to contain high amount of silica(Okoya Barrack Omondi,
2013). Hence an excellent pozzolanic material
• The structural and mechanical behavior of concrete containing RHA
is comparable to plain concrete up to some level of
replacement(Siddika, Mamun, & Ali, 2018). .
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Cont.
 The current engineering practice of design ordinary RC structures is focused
mainly on first ULS often employing simplistic methods of SLS
 The most common SLS criterion is ultimate deflection keeping the other
conditions such as criteria for crack width, structural vibrations etc.
unresolved.
 Creep has considerable effects upon performance of concrete structures
;causing increased deflections and affecting stress distribution(Goel, Kumar,
& Paul, 2007)  .
 Under-estimation of multi-decade creep has caused excessive deflection
often with cracking of concrete structures(P. Chen, Zheng, Wang, & Chang,
2018) .
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Cont.
 Creep characteristics of concrete with mineral admixtures maybe significant and
need to be realistically assessed(Siddika, Mamun, & Ali, 2018).
 Creep prediction models;
 ACI,
 CEB-FIB
 B3
 GL 2000 among others;
 Have not taken into account modified concretes such rice husk ash concrete
despite RHA gaining wide acceptance in concrete production.
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Main objective To study creep of rice husk ash concrete experimentally by

testing RHA concrete beams and model its behavior.

Specific objectives
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To investigate the creep of rice husk ash concrete beams experimentally

2 To develop a creep prediction model for rice husk ash concrete

3 To compare the analytical and experimental creep results of plain and rice husk ash concrete
 LITERATURE REVIEW 6

Rice husk ash

• Rice husk is waste product of rice milling.

• The ash contains about 80% of silica and hence its an
excellent pozzolanic material as per ASTM C618 and KS
-02-1263
• The properties of RHA from various locations are shown
in the following tables(Okoya Barrack Omondi, 2013),
(Hisham et al., 2012).
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Chemical properties of RHA

Psychical properties of RHA
  Malaysia Brazil Netherland Kenya
Property Value
  s
Mehta et al Zhang et al Feng et al Bui et al
SiO2 93.1 92.9 86.9 75.8
Specific 2.06 2.06 2.10 2.10
Al2O3 0.21 0.18 0.84 1.15

Fe2O3 0.21 0.43 0.73 0.86 gravity

CaO 0.41 1.03 1.4 3.25 Mean - - 7.4 5.0
K2O 2.31 0.72 2.46 1.5
particle
MgO 1.59 0.35 0.57 0.23
Na2O - 0.02 0.11 0.35 size, μm
Fineness 99 99 - -
SO3 - 0.1 - -

Loos of 2.36 - 5.14 10.2 passing 45

ignition
μm
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concrete
 Creep is the increase in strain
under sustained constant stress
after taking into account other
time dependent deformations
i.e. shrinkage, swelling and
other thermal deformations.

Time- dependent deformation

of concrete
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models.

 ACI-209,CEB-FIB, B3 model and GL 2000;are the most

commonly used creep prediction models .
 They relate creep strain to loading conditions ,with curve
fitting of test results to develop time functions of creep.
 These models equations are limited to plain concrete.
 Review on creep
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Concrete
P. Ghodousi et al
• Early-age creep and shrinkage of concrete
Findings
containing Iranian pozzolans (Silica fume, trass
• Each pozzolanic material had major
and GGBS ) was studied
effect on creep of concrete
• ACI209, BS8110-1986, CEB-FIB prediction
• 28day estimation results had better
models and an estimation based on 28-day results
prediction
were compared with experimental data.

Conclusion
-A more accurate model taking into account the
effect of pozzolanic material is required
 OBJ. 1 MATERIALS & METHODS 11
Experimental creep investigation of RHA concrete beams

Aggregates.
Concrete

Cement& RHA

Steel Reinforcement
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Mix design proportions

Preparation RHA Cement Water RHA FA CA W/B SLUM MAX
P aggr.
-Mix design DOE kg/m3 kg/m3 Size
kg/m3 kg/m3 kg/m3 mm mm
method %

-Concrete class C30 0 375 210 0 600 1066 0.56 30-60 20

-Cement, RHA water &

10 354 205 39 588 1044 0.52 30-60 20
fine agg, reinforcing
steel.
- 10% replacement of Reinforcement details
- Provided 4T8 for each beam
cement with RHA - Shear links 5T8@ 240mm cc
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Procedure
- Concrete mixing and casting done .
- 5 nos. 100mm cubes;
- 5 nos. 100mm diameter by 200mm
height cylinders;
- 6 no's 100mm x150mmx 1m RC
beams with RHA

Creep
 Cubes loading &
Comp. Tensile
 Cylinders Slump test
strength strength
strain
measuremen
 Beams t
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Results observed Creep loading of beams

- Average - To start at day 29 from casting of beams
observed slump - 3 beams will be loaded for creep
of 47mm . - Loading will be by means of an hydraulic jack
Expected results transmitted to a spreader beam through the
- 7 & 28 day load cell
compressive and - The spreader beam being so stiff will transmit
tensile strengths the load equally to all the three beams
on cubes and - This will induce a three-point bending
cylinders mechanism
- A constant load of approximately 1ton will be
applied at the midspan of each beam
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Creep loading of beams

- 6 Strain gauges( 30& 60mm gauge
length) will be attached on surface of
each beam ( top, mid-height sideways ,
bottom) 125mm from load application
point
- An LVDT will be placed at bottom of
each beam directly under the loading
point to monitor the growth of
deflection with time.
- The strain gauges, load cell and LVDTS
shall be connected to a data logger
- All measured strain data shall be Side view
stored in the data logger and regular
retrieval done.
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Shrinkage beams
- 3 beams will remain Recording of creep data
unloaded for observation -Average of total strain &
of shrinkage .
- Similar shrinkage strain data at each
strain gauge
attachment and location as point of beam surface.
the loaded beams
- Strain - Obtain creep strain data
gauges also
connected to data logger from total creep deformation
less shrinkage and elastic
strain against time
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Development of creep prediction model for RHA concrete

Procedure
- Prediction results of four  Proposed RHA
currently used concrete creep concrete creep model
models will be obtained -A function of;
- ACI-209, CEB-FEIB, B3 & GL  Time
2000  Compressive
- A modification factor on to the strength
model whose results will be  % of RHA
close to experimental results
will be obtained through c)
multiple variable regression
analysis of test data.
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Comparison of analytical and experimental results
Procedure
- Creep values from the model and
Graphical representation
experiment shall be plotted
together and compared Model
Exp.
- Plain concrete creep values from

Creep strain
Literature will be compared with

(microns)
plain concrete model values
t in days
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