Assesement of Concrete by Replacing Coarse Aggregate and Fine Aggregate to Coconut Shell and Glass Sand for Economical and Eco–Friendly Concrete

Prof. Phatak Udaykumar J; Prof. Abhijit Warudkar; Shivkumar S. Patil; Sagar S. Dube; Sachin D. Wavhal; Abhijeet N. Adik

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2014

Assesement of Concrete by Replacing Coarse Aggregate and Fine Aggregate to Coconut Shell and Glass Sand for Economical and Eco–Friendly Concrete

Prof. Phatak Udaykumar J, Prof. Abhijit Warudkar, Shivkumar S. Patil, Sagar S. Dube, Sachin D. Wavhal, Abhijeet N. Adik

Abstract :

Concrete is most important construction material & made up of water, cement, sand and aggregate in proportion for desire strength. Water is very essential and has no substitute. Cement, sand and aggregate can have substitutes. Cement is binding material and being partially replaced with fly ash. Aggregate and sand is extracted from the Earth and river. The experiment proposes to replace aggregates by Waste Coconut Shell in different proportions. Coconut Shell is hard and light weight material. Study have replaced fine aggregate by Crush Glass Sand. It’s significant contribution is to construction field where waste glass was reused for concrete production. The study concluded that Coconut Shell and waste Glass can be effectively used as coarse and fine aggregate replacement up to 20% without substantial change in strength. Produced concrete is relatively light weight than conventional concrete which is economical, eco–friendly and used in light weight structure.