Durability properties of geopolymer concrete made from fly ash in presence of Kaolin

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 781-784
Author(s):  
Okoye Francis Nnaemeka ◽  
N.B. Singh
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 530-545
Author(s):  
Ramamohana Reddy Bellum ◽  
Karthikeyan Muniraj ◽  
Sri Rama Chand Madduru

The use of abundantly available wastes such as Fly ash and ceramic powder in construction industry in the form of geopolymer concrete turns out to be the search of a very promising building material for a sustainable future[15].This study has been undertaken to investigate the strength and durability properties of geopolymer concrete by adding ceramic powder in different percentage as source material in addition with flyash[16]. All investigations are mainly focused towards geopolymer concrete mainly with flyash as source material. In this study, ceramic waste powder is added since it is also one of the major waste material as flyash. Nowadays, almost all the construction are carried out with ceramic products which results with more ceramic waste powder. Thus this work focused to utilize this waste powder into geopolymer concrete. Characteristic strength and primary durability properties are carried out by adding ceramic powder with 50%,40% and30% with fly ash. Thus this paper focuses on varying the proportions of fly ash and ceramic waste powder (50:50, 60:40, 70:30) in geopolymer concrete incorporating with polypropylene fibres in percentage of 0.5%,0.75% and 1% in volume of concrete to evaluate its strength and durability characteristics. The alkaline activator solution used is a mixture of 10 molar Sodium hydroxide and Sodium silicate in the ratio 1:3. Ambient curing condition is applied for the specimens. M-Sand is used instead of fine aggregate, since many literature reveals addition of M-Sand gains more strength in geopolymer Concrete.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
Manoj Rajak ◽  
Baboo Rai

Abstract Geopolymer offers significant promise to the construction world as a possible alternative to ordinary Portland cement (OPC). Like conventional Portland cement concrete, the matrix brittleness in geopolymer composites can be reduced by introducing suitable fibre reinforcement. A few investigations on fibre reinforced geopolymer composites are available. However there is still a gap to comprehend and enhance their performance. This paper describes the effect of incorporating micro polypropylene fibres on the strength and durability characteristics of geopolymer concrete. The engineering and durability properties like workability, compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength, modulus of elasticity, and sorptivity of geopolymer concrete reinforced with micro polypropylene fibres is presented. The effect of the sulfuric acid attack on Geopolymer Concrete reinforced with micro polypropylene fibres is also discussed. The results show that hydrophobic characteristics of the micro polypropylene fibre led to weak contact with the geopolymer binder and hence weakened the mechanical performance of the fly ash based geopolymer matrix. However significant improvements in durability properties were noted.


2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 721-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Law ◽  
Andi Arham Adam ◽  
Thomas K. Molyneaux ◽  
Indubhushan Patnaikuni ◽  
Arie Wardhono

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Kolli Ramujee ◽  
Karnatakam Sai Prasad ◽  
B Narendra Kumar

The present paper is an attempt to explore the durability properties of ternary blended geopolymer concrete incorporating fly ash, GGBS, wollastonite as appendage of strength parameters. The Large scale production of cement is triggering environmental problems. This has made the researchers to prefer supplementary cementatious material in fabricating concrete. Fly ash [1], GGBS is a waste material produced by industries used as binder material to way towards the waste utilization. Wollastonite, a naturally occurring mineral can be exploited in geopolymer concrete as a partial replacement of fly ash. G40 grade of geopolymer concrete is used in this study and mix design was built accordingly by replacing fly ash by the combinations of wollastonite and GGBS with suitable alkaline solution and Superplasticizer. A constant 50% of fly ash was used for all the mixes and rest 50% with the combinations of 15%,35%; 25%, 25%; 35%,15% of wollastonite and GGBS respectively .In this present experimental work durability tests (mass loss tests) like resistance to sulphateattack, chloride attack; sorptivity, abrasion resistance were explored for plain mix and optimal mix, which was extracted from previous experimental work of compressive strength properties of ternary blended geopolymer concrete.


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