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Stone Dust in Concrete: Effect on Compressive Strength
through 4.75 mm aperture size sieve and conforming to zone 5) Stone Dust- Stone dust obtained from the KABRAI
II as per IS:383-1970 specification. Its fineness modulus and crushing plant of Mahoba district in Uttar Pradesh with
specific gravity were 2.75 and 2.3 respectively. Particle size co-operation of the locally working VIL.Ltd highway and
distribution as Grading curve of the recorded sieve analysis construction company was Grey in colour, dry in condition,
test result for the same is shown in figure 1 with Upper and used as thoroughly retained on 150 µm IS Sieve for entire
Lower Permissible limits (UPL and LPL) as per codal investigation. Fineness modulus and Specific gravity of stone
recommendation. dust were 2.60 and 2.40 respectively. Particle size distribution
curve of stone dust (SD) for the recorded sieve analysis test
result with conforming to the grading zone II as per
IS:383-1970 specification with upper and lower permissible
limits (UPL & LPL) is shown in figure 3.
B. Methods –
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International Journal of Engineering and Technical Research (IJETR)
ISSN: 2321-0869 (O) 2454-4698 (P), Volume-3, Issue-8, August 2015
concrete cubes were crushed by the compression testing III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
machine (CTM) of capacity 2000KN conforming to
IS:14858-2000 for determining the compressive strength. A. Workability of Concrete with Stone Dust –
Compressive strength of the concrete cube specimen was Slump test for workability for the placing condition of
calculated by dividing the maximum load applied to the concrete was conducted as per IS:1199-1991 specification.
specimen during the test by the cross sectional area. The Degree of workability maintained was low, that is, slump was
average of three values of compressive strength was taken as maintained between 25 mm to 75 mm throughout the
the representative compressive strength. In test, cube investigation by adding the required doses of superplasticizer
specimen was placed in the CTM machine in such manner that by weight of cement, because of abrupt fall in slump with
the load was applied to the opposite sides of the concrete cube adding stone dust as gradual increase replacement of sand in
as cast, that is, not to the top and bottom as per IS:516-1959 concrete mix. The maintained slump (mm) with required dose
specification of superplasticizer and Slump (mm) at fixed dose of
superplasticizer were evaluated with gradual increase
A total number of 66 concrete cube specimens as a group of percentage of stone dust as fine aggregate replacement in
six cubes (3 cubes for 7 days and 3 cubes for 28 days test) concrete are given in table 3.
were cast with 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%,
80%, 90%, 100% replacement of river sand with stone dust Table 3 – Variation of Slump (in mm) with replacement level
and immersed fully in potable water for curing and tested for 7 Slump(mm) with
Slump(mm) with required
days and 28 days compressive strength. Fixed dose of
Stone dust dose of Superplasticizer
Superplasticizer
(% ) given in bracket
(0.8%)
0 84 60 (0.60%)
10 70 55 (0.70%)
20 55 55 (0.80%)
30 40 50 (0.90%)
40 30 48 (1.00%)
50 20 45 (1.20%)
60 15 45 (1.50%)
70 5 40 (1.60%)
80 0 40 (1.80%)
90 0 38 (2.00%)
100 0 35 (2.20%)
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Stone Dust in Concrete: Effect on Compressive Strength
IV. CONCLUSIONS
On the basis of Results obtained during the experimental
investigation, following conclusions are drawn
Slump(mm) of concrete made using stone dust decreases
abruptly with increase in replacement level of river sand.
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