Study on Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate with Red Soil in Concrete
Journal Title: International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET) - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 5
Abstract
Many researchers are dealing with various types of admixtures to improve the mechanical and durability properties of concrete. In this present investigation, red soil is taken as an admixture to enhance the performance of concrete. An experimental investigation is carried out to study the behaviour of concrete by replacing the fine aggregate with locally available red soil. It involves a certain tests to find the quality improvement of concrete when red soil is added to it. The partial replacement of sand with red soil has been done according to the specific mix proportion to gain good strength in concrete and to calculate the imperviousness of red soil and also to find the special features of red soil which has the anti pest control in it. Mechanical properties such as compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and durability properties such as porosity, water permeability tests has been carried out for red soil mixed concrete and plain concrete to differentiate the strength and imperviousness in it . From the chemical properties of red soil, it is found that by replacing the fine aggregate with red soil turns the concrete as anti pest control. This red soil and river sand samples are first taken for preliminary test such as the sieve analysis test. Noticeably the red soil is of uniform size and so it is graded as poorly graded soil but the river sand is not finer as compared to the red soil. The partial replacement of sand in concrete has been done using red soil in a mix proportion of 1:1.5:2.75 which gives the significant improvement in strength and imperviousness. The characteristics of red soil has a great impact on strength, imperviousness and anti pest control. After conducting all these tests, red soil is found suitable for concrete as an admixture of it which can be used in construction of buildings.
Authors and Affiliations
James Alexander. S, Prof. Antony Godwin, Dr. S. Alexander
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP22098
- DOI -
- Views 232
- Downloads 5
Gamma Dose Rate And Effective Dose Equivalent Due To Gamma Radiation From Granite Samples Collected From Prominent Quarry Sites In Oyo State, Nigeria
The global attention to the problem of exposure due to natural gamma radiation and associated health risk in dwelling using some materials for building and construction called for this study. Due to the widespread and t...
A Comparative Study & Analysis of Image Restoration by Non Blind Technique
The process of retrieving and analyzing the pictorial information by a digital computer is known as digital image processing. Vision is the foremost trusted source of information compare to other human perceptions. And...
Big Data Analytics on Unemployment & Health Records
Now a day’s huge amount of data is produced from the social web sites, government industries, public sectors etc., Storing and Maintaining the data is big challenge which is solved by special databases and programming l...
A Survey on Web Mining: Overview, Techniques, Tools, and Applications
Web Mining is moving the World Wide Web towards a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. It uses document content, hyperlink structure, and usage statistics to assi...
A Framework To Integrate Feature Selection Algorithm For Classification Of High Dimensional Data
The explosive usage of social media produces huge quality of unlabeled and high-dimensional data. The data characteristic with this choice has been tested to be powerful in handling excessive-dimensional facts for effec...