Experimental Analysis on Properties of Concrete by Partial Replacement of Cement with Ceramic Waste

Abstract

Industrial wastes are being produced per year by chemical process throughout the world, these by products are left largely unused and are hazardous materials to humans because they are air born and can be easily inhaled .An experimental investigation has been carried out to explore the possibility of using the ceramic waste powder. concrete is a composite material consists of cement, fine and course aggregate, water admixture.The objectives are to mix these materials traditionally to concrete workable. The proportionate quantity of each material (i.e cement, water, fine and course aggregates) effect the properties of hardened concrete.

This project is about to process of using the waste product (ceramic industry) for construction purpose. Now a days they are rapid growth in urban and industrial is more and the demand is being increased day by day. The waste generated from ceramic industry is used as a partial replacement in cement. To eradicate the demand of construction material cement is being replaced in our project as CERAMIC WASTE accordingly in the range of 0% (without CERAMIC WASTE), 10%, 20%, and 30% by weight of cement for M-20 and M-30 mix. Concrete mixtures were produced, tested and compared in terms of compressive, flexural and split tensile strength with the Conventional concrete. These tests were carried out to evaluate the mechanical properties for the test results of 3, 7, 28, 56 days for compressive strength, flexural Strength and split tensile strength.

In this paper the effect of ceramic waste  on workability, setting time, density, air content, compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength, modulus of elasticity are studied Based on this study compressive strength v/s W/C curves have been plotted so that concrete mix of grades M 20, M 30, with difference percentage of ceramic waste.