STRENGTH INVESTIGATION OF CONCRETE MADE WITH LIME STONE AS COARSE AGGREGATE AND FINE AGGREGATE AS BHAGODI BLACK SAND

Tanveer Asif Zerdi; Syed Abrar Hussaini; Ajmer Patel; Mohd Abdul Haseeb

Volume : VI, Issue : V, May - 2016

STRENGTH INVESTIGATION OF CONCRETE MADE WITH LIME STONE AS COARSE AGGREGATE AND FINE AGGREGATE AS BHAGODI BLACK SAND

Tanveer Asif Zerdi, Syed Abrar Hussaini, Ajmer Patel, Mohd Abdul Haseeb

Abstract :

Concrete has several appealing characteristics that have made it as a widely used construction material. It is the material of choice where strength, performance, durability etc., are required and concrete is undoubtedly most versatile construction material. Currently the problems faced by the use of cement concrete includes high demand of cement concrete, cost of cement and concrete making materials, pollution, excessive extraction and utilization of natural river sand and stones, water etc. Because the sand is being extensively extracted from the river bed deposits, it is depleting at a faster rate. Hence it is necessary to find an alternative material such as industrial waste pieces of stones from the stone quarries in the cement concrete production. The present study aims at utilization and to ascertain the suitability of coarse aggregate in normal concrete with localy available good quality sand. One more concrete is prepared by using lime stone pieces as coarse aggregates and locally bad quality sand that is commonly known as bhagodi sand as fine aggregate. The comparision between above two concretes are made over here by testing the cubes compressive strength at 28 days. This burning factor of scarce availability of both fine and coarse aggregates has motivated the authors to do this project research under consideration.