Volume : III, Issue : V, May - 2013

Experimental Study on the Strength of Concrete by Using Corrugated Steel Fibers with Rice Husk Ash

Zalak Shah, Prof. D. J. Dhyani

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This paper reports on a comprehensive study on the properties of concrete containing rice husk ash and steel fibers. Properties studied include workability of fresh concrete, compressive strength, flexural tensile strength, splitting tensile strength, modulus of elasticity for hardened concrete. Rice husk ash content was use from 10% to 25% in the interval of 5% in weight of cement. It was found that the strength of concrete reduces after further addition of 15% of rice husk ash. So to improve the strength of concrete steel fibers were added and fiber volume fraction was 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% and 2% in volume basis. The laboratory results Shown that steel fiber addition, either into Ordinary Portland cement concrete or rice husk ash concrete, improves the tensile strength properties. However, it reduced workability. Although rice husk ash replacements reduce strength properties, it reduced workability of steel fiber reinforced concrete. The performed experiments show that the behaviour of rice husk ash concrete is not similar to that of Portland cement concrete when rice husk ash is added.

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Zalak Shah, Prof. D. J. Dhyani Experimental Study on the Strength of Concrete by Using Corrugated Steel Fibers with Rice Husk Ash Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.V May 2013

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