scholarly journals Effect of Carboxylic Acid (Benzene Crystallable) in Cement Concrete and Geopolymer Concrete

The present study appraises the recitals of carboxylic acid- based admixture to increase concrete water tightness and self-sealing capacity of the cement and geopolymer concrete. Outcomes of the previous studies in particular, adding 1% by cement mass of the carboxylic polymer reasons for reduction in the water dispersion under pressure of 7-day wet cured concrete by 50% associated to that of the conforming reference concrete. At 7 days, M4 mix compressive strength is about 43.5% less than M3 mix. The compressive strength of M4 increases and is about 37.6% less than M3 mix at 28 days of curing. At 7 days, M4 mix split tensile strength is about 17.5% less than M3 mix (cement concrete with 0.45 w/c ratio). The split tensile strength of M4 declines and is about 42.3% less than M3 mix at 28 days of curing. The strength of the geopolymer concrete tends to increase as the time period increases due to the presence of fly ash in it. So it is expected that geopolymer concrete will give more strength than cement concrete in long term with the presence of carboxylic acid

2011 ◽  
Vol 250-253 ◽  
pp. 962-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Sudarshan ◽  
R.V. Ranganath

Fly ash based geopolymer concrete is gaining importance in the context of developing alternatives to cement concrete. The research work available in the literature shows many beneficial effects of the material in terms of its high early compressive strength, tensile strength, reduced shrinkage, good acid resistance etc., However, there are very few studies carried out on the influence of sustained elevated temperature on the properties of geopolymer concrete. This paper presents the results of some of the properties of fly ash based geopolymer concrete activated using sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide and subjected to elevated temperature at 150°C, 200°C, 300°C, 400ºc under sustained durations of 1 hour, 2 hours and 4 hours. The results show that residual compressive strength is about 20% less than the normal at about 200°C itself possibly due to the development of vapour pressure formed by the non-reactive water present in the system. Beyond 2 hours of sustenance, there is not much of a difference in the properties of concrete.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Indhumathi Anbarasan ◽  
S.R. Sanjaiyan ◽  
S. Nagan Soundarapandiyan

Geopolymer concrete (GPC) has significant potential as a more sustainable alternative for ordinary Portland cement concrete. GPC had been introduced to reduce carbon footprints and thereby safeguarding environment. This emerging eco friendly construction product finds majority of its application in precast and prefabricated structures due to the special curing conditions required. Sustained research efforts are being taken to make the product suitable for in situ applications. The developed technology will certainly address the issues of huge energy consumption as well reduce water use which is becoming scarce nowadays. Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS) a by-product of iron industries in combination with fly ash has proved to give enhanced strength, durability as well reduced setting time. This study investigates the effect of GGBS as partial replacement of fly ash in the manufacture of GPC. Cube and cylindrical specimens were cast and subjected to ambient curing as well to alternate wetting-drying cycles. The 28 day compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and density of GPC specimens were found. The study revealed increase in compressive strength, split tensile strength, density as well flexural strength up to 40 percent replacement of fly ash by GGBS.


Jurnal CIVILA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Herwina Rahayu Putri ◽  
Firman Paledung ◽  
Erniati Bachtiar ◽  
Popy Indrayani

Fly ash is a kind of trash that may degrade the quality of the air. As a result, it is critical that it be used as an ecologically beneficial material. Although cement is the most often used construction material, its manufacturing generates carbon dioxide, which may degrade air quality. The aim of this research was to evaluate the compressive strength and split tensile strength of self-compacting geopolymer concrete (SCGC) cured in seawater, as well as to compare SCGC with and without saltwater. In this research, a cylindrical specimen with a diameter of 10 cm and a height of 20 cm was utilized as the specimen. Fly ash is used in proportion to fine and coarse aggregates at a ratio of 1: 0.65: 1.5. Using a 0.4 activator to binder ratio. The molarity ranges utilized were 11 M, 12 M, 13 M, 14 M, and 15 M. Compressive strength and split tensile strength tests were conducted on 28-day-old concrete. The findings indicated that when the molarity of SCGC treated with seawater increased from 11 to 15 M, the compressive and split tensile strengths increased. Compressive strength values were greatest in SCGC treated at room temperature when an activator of 13 M was used, and compressive strength values dropped in SCGC treated at room temperature when an activator greater than 13 M was used


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Kumar Arunachalam ◽  
Muthukannan Muthiah ◽  
Kanniga Devi Rangaswamy ◽  
Arunkumar Kadarkarai ◽  
Chithambar Ganesh Arunasankar

Purpose Demand for Geopolymer concrete (GPC) has increased recently because of its many benefits, including being environmentally sustainable, extremely tolerant to high temperature and chemical attacks in more dangerous environments. Like standard concrete, GPC also has low tensile strength and deformation capacity. This paper aims to analyse the utilization of incinerated bio-medical waste ash (IBWA) combined with ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) in reinforced GPC beams and columns. Medical waste was produced in the health-care industry, specifically in hospitals and diagnostic laboratories. GGBS is a form of industrial waste generated by steel factories. The best option to address global warming is to reduce the consumption of Portland cement production and promote other types of cement that were not a pollutant to the environment. Therefore, the replacement in ordinary Portland cement construction with GPC is a promising way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. GPC was produced due to an alkali-activated polymeric reaction between alumina-silicate source materials and unreacted aggregates and other materials. Industrial pollutants such as fly ash and slag were used as raw materials. Design/methodology/approach Laboratory experiments were performed on three different proportions (reinforced cement concrete [RCC], 100% GGBS as an aluminosilicate source material in reinforced geopolymer concrete [GRGPC] and 30% replacement of IBWA as an aluminosilicate source material for GGBS in reinforced geopolymer concrete [IGRGPC]). The cubes and cylinders for these proportions were tested to find their compressive strength and split tensile strength. In addition, beams (deflection factor, ductility factor, flexural strength, degradation of stiffness and toughness index) and columns (load-carrying ability, stress-strain behaviour and load-deflection behaviours) of reinforced geopolymer concrete (RGPC) were studied. Findings As shown by the results, compared to Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) and 100% GGBS based Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete (GRGPC), 30% IBWA and 70% GGBS based Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete (IGRGPC) (30% IBWA–70% GGBS reinforced geo-polymer concrete) cubes, cylinders, beams and columns exhibit high compressive strength, tensile strength, flexural strength, load-carrying ability, ultimate strength, stiffness, ductility and deformation capacity. Originality/value All the results were based on the experiments done in this research. All the result values obtained in this research are higher than the theoretical values.


2016 ◽  
Vol 841 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puput Risdanareni ◽  
Adjib Karjanto ◽  
Febriano Khakim

This paper describes the result of investigating volcanic ash of Mount Kelud as fly ash substitute material to produce geopolymer concrete. The test was held on geopolymer concrete blended with 0%, 25%, 50% and 100% fly ash replacement with volcanic ash. Natrium Hidroxide (NaOH) with concentration of 12 molar and Natrium Silicate (Na2SiO3) were used as alkaline activator. While alkali-activator ratio of 2 was used in this research. The physical properties was tested by porosity and setting time test, while split tensile strength presented to measure brittle caracteristic of geopolymer concrete. The result shown that increasing volcanic ash content in the mixture will increase setting time of geopolymer paste. On the other hand increasing volcanic ash content will reduce split tensile strength and porosity of geopolymer concrete. After all replacing fly ash with volcanic ash was suitable from 25% to 50% due to its optimum physical and mechanical properties.


2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
Anna Szcześniak ◽  
Jacek Zychowicz ◽  
Adam Stolarski

The analysis of influence of fly ash additive to concrete on the basis of cement CEM IIIA 32,5 N on the tightness and strength was presented in the paper. Researches were carried out for three types of concrete made with the use of CEM IIIA 32,5N LH HSR NA cement. The basic recipe of concrete does not contain the additive of fly ash, while two other concretes contain the fly ash additive in an amount of 25% and 33% of the cement mass. Laboratory investigations of the concrete samples were carried out under conditions of long-term maturation in the range of the water tightness and the depth of water penetration in concrete, compressive strength and tensile strength of concrete at splitting. Keywords: concrete testing, furnace cement, fly ash additive, water tightness of concrete, strength of concrete.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-476
Author(s):  
Haider Owaid ◽  
Haider Al-Baghdadi ◽  
Muna Al-Rubaye

Large quantities of paper and wood waste are generated every day, the disposal of these waste products is a problem because it requires huge space for their disposal. The possibility of using these wastes can mitigate the environmental problems related to them. This study presents an investigation on the feasibility of inclusion of waste paper ash (WPA) or wood ash (WA) as replacement materials for fly ash (FA) class F in preparation geopolymer concrete (GC). The developed geopolymer concretes for this study were prepared at replacement ratios of FA by WPA or WA of 25, 50, 75 and 100% in addition to a control mix containing 100% of FA. Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solutions and sodium silicate (Na2SiO3) are used as alkaline activators with 1M and 10M of sodium hydroxide solution.The geopolymer concretes have been evaluated with respect to the workability, the compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and flexural strength. The results indicated that there were no significant differences in the workability of the control GC mix and the developed GC mixes incorporating WPA or WA. Also, the results showed that, by incorporating of 25–50% PWA or 25% WA, the mechanical properties (compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and flexural strength) of GC mixes slightly decreased. While replacement with 75–100% WPA or with 50–100% WA has reduced these mechanical properties of GC mixes. As a result, there is a feasibility of partial replacement of FA by up to 50% WPA or 25% WA in preparation of the geopolymer concrete.


Author(s):  
Asfaw Mekonnen LAKEW ◽  
Mukhallad M. AL-MASHHADANI ◽  
Orhan CANPOLAT

This experimental work evaluated geopolymer concrete containing fly ash and slag by partial replacement of natural coarse aggregate (NCA) with recycled coarse aggregate (RCA) to manufacture environmental-friendly concrete. The proportion of recycled aggregates considered consists of 10%, 20%, 30%, and 40% of the total coarse aggregate amount. Also, a steel fiber ratio of 0.3% was utilized. The mechanical properties and abrasion resistance of fly ash/slag-based geopolymer concrete were then assessed. Majorly, the mechanical strength of the concrete samples decreased by the increase of RCA content. The geopolymer concrete with 40% RCA gave 28.3% lesser compressive strength and 24% lower splitting tensile strength than NCA concrete at one year. Also, the flexural strength of concrete specimens was reduced by 35% (from 5.34MPa to 3.5MPa) with the incorporation of 40% RCA. The incorporation of 30% RCA caused 23% and 22.6% reduction in compressive strength at 56 days and one year, respectively. The flexural and splitting tensile strength of the specimens was not significantly reduced (less than 10%) with the inclusion of a recycled coarse aggregate ratio of up to 30%. Furthermore, the abrasion wear thickness of every concrete sample was less than 1mm. RCA inclusion of 20% produced either insignificant reduction or better strength results compared to reference mixtures. As a result, it was considered that the combination of 0.3% steel fiber and 20% recycled coarse aggregate in fly ash/slag-based geopolymer concrete leads to an eco-friendly concrete mix with acceptable short and long-term engineering properties that would lead to sustainability in concrete production and utilization sector.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 155892501501000
Author(s):  
Ramesh Kanagavel ◽  
K. Arunachalam

Mechanical properties of quaternary blending cement concrete reinforced with hybrid fibers are evaluated in this experimental study. The steel fibers were added at volume fractions of 0.5%, 1%, and 1.5 % and polypropylene fibers were added at 0.25% and 0.5% by weight of cementitious materials in the concrete mix individually and in hybrid form to determine the compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and impact resistance for all the mixes. The experimental results revealed that fiber addition improves the mechanical properties and also the ductility and energy absorption of the concrete. The results also demonstrate that the hybrid steel – polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete performs better in compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and impact resistance than mono steel and mono polypropylene fiber reinforced concrete.


Author(s):  
Gum Sung Ryu ◽  
Kyung Taek Koh ◽  
Gi Hong An ◽  
Jang Hwa Lee

This paper evaluates the strength, shrinkage and durability characteristics of concrete using 100% fly ash and bottom ash as binder. It is seen that the compressive strength of activated fly ash and bottom ash concrete reaches respectively 25 MPa and 30 MPa, and that the change in strength is insignificant as per the content of bottom ash powder. Moreover, the total amount of shrinkage of the activated bottom ash concrete appears to be larger than that of the activated fly ash concrete. In addition, the drying shrinkage and durable performance of the activated ash geopolymer concrete is verified to be superior to that of ordinary cement concrete.


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