scholarly journals Flexural Rigidity in Concrete Beam by using the Crimped Steel Fibers with Rapid Hardening Admixtures

With the increase in the fast track construction industries, the emerging techniques are used for improvement in the concrete strength and its properties. This paper focused on the test results for various mixes of concrete made by replacing OPC cement content with slag and fly ash in varying proportions the use of rapid hardening admixture along with the presence of crimped steel fibers. The flexural strength, crack depth measurement by using the ultrasonic pulse velocity and Elastic modulus of concrete were conducted with different proportions of fly ash (0-15%) and slag (0-25%) being replaced in cement and 0-50% of the fine aggregate is replaced with stone dust. The experimental test results show the volume reduction in flexural members, crack depth measurement by UPV and modulus of elasticity of concrete by scant modulus method was used for various mixes.

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Achenbach ◽  
I. N. Komsky ◽  
Y. C. Lee ◽  
Y. C. Angel

2013 ◽  
Vol 857 ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Ji Liang Wang ◽  
Xiang Qian Wen ◽  
Jun Hong Shan ◽  
Ying Liu

the influence of mixing amount of mineral admixture, volume content of fine and coarse aggregate have been systematical studied on the workability, mechanical properties and volume stability of self-compacting concrete. Test results showed that with the fly ash content increased, the workability of self-compacting concrete improved significantly, early compressive strength decreased, but increase rate of later strength improved remarkably, and the mixing amount of fly ash inhibited significantly the dry shrinkage of self-compacting concrete; with the volume content of coarse aggregate increased, the workability of self-compacting concrete decreased significantly, but the volume stability of self-compacting concrete improved obviously, thus the optimum volume content of coarse aggregate of self-compacting concrete was range from 0.30 to 0.34; when the volume content of fine aggregate varied at the range of 0.40~0.50, there may be little effects on the workability of self-compacting concrete, but the increase self-compacting concretes volume content could reduce obviously the dry shrinkage of self-compacting concrete. Moreover, the variation in the volume content of coarse and fine aggregate should have slight influence on the early strength of self-compacting concrete, and the influence of the volume content variety on the later strength of self-compacting concrete could be neglected eventually.


2015 ◽  
Vol 754-755 ◽  
pp. 468-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Lung Hwang ◽  
Trong Phuoc Huynh

This work investigates the possibility of using fly ash (FA) and Vietnam residual rice husk ash (RHA) in producing unfired building bricks with applying densified mixture design algorithm (DMDA) method. In this research, little amount of cement was added into the mixtures as binder substitution. Unground rice husk ash (URHA), an agricultural by-product, was used as partial fine aggregate replacement (10% and 30%) in the mixtures. The solid bricks of 220×105×60 mm in size were prepared in this study. The hardened properties of the bricks were investigated including compressive strength, flexural strength and water absorption according to corresponding Vietnamese standards. Forming pressure of 35 MPa was applied to form the solid bricks in the mold. The test results show that all brick specimens obtained good mechanical properties, which were well conformed to Vietnamese standard. Compressive strength and flexural strength of the bricks were respectively in range of 13.81–22.06 MPa and 2.25–3.47 MPa. It was definitely proved many potential applications of FA and RHA in the production of unfired building bricks.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 5761-5765

With an objective of saving the environment by providing crumb rubber as an alternative to natural fine aggregate this paper presents a study carried out to find the mechanical properties of rubberized concrete. Rubberized concrete is made up of waste rubber from vehicle tyres and other rubber waste which otherwise is left out polluting the environment. In this paper, 7.5% of crumb rubber (obtained by shredding the vehicle tyres) as an alternative to fine aggregate and 7.5% of fly-ash as an alternative to cement is added with other ingredients of concrete to produce an eco-friendly concrete which can be used economically and effectively for construction along the coastal areas. Various properties like workability, compressive strength, split tensile strength, and flexural strength was carried out on concrete specimens exposed to the natural marine environment along the coast of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The total exposure of concrete specimen was about 150 days, and various specimens were tested at 7, 28, 90, 120 and 150 days, respectively. The test results showed that with a slight compromise in strength, the workability of concrete and resistance to the effect of seawater on the strength of concrete significantly improved with the addition of crumb rubber and fly-ash.


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