Empirical Survey on Light Weight Silica Fume Concretes

International Journal of Civil Engineering

© 2015 by SSRG - IJCE Journal

Volume 2 Issue 5

Year of Publication : 2015

Authors : S.V.V.Prasad

10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V2I5P108

How to Cite?

S.V.V.Prasad, "Empirical Survey on Light Weight Silica Fume Concretes," SSRG International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 2,  no. 5, pp. 28-31, 2015. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V2I5P108

Abstract:

The joining of silica smoke into the typical cement is a normal one in the present days to produce the perfectly customized high quality and superior cement. The outline parameters are increasing with the fuse of silica smoke in customary cement and the blend proportioning is getting to be complex. The primary target of this paper has been made to examine the diverse mechanical properties like compressive quality, compacting element, drop of solid consolidating silica smolder. In this present paper 5 (five) blend of solid joining silica smoke are cast to perform tests. These analyses were completed by supplanting bond with diverse rates of silica smoke at a solitary consistent water-cementations materials proportion keeping other blend outline variables steady. The silica smoke was supplanted by 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% for water-cementations materials (w/cm) proportion for 0.40. For all blends compressive qualities were resolved at 24 hours, 7 and 28 days for 100 mm and 150 mm shapes. Different properties like compacting element and droop were likewise decided for five blends of cement.

Keywords:

Silica Fume, Compressive Strength, Concrete, High performance concrete, Slump.

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