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September, 1930
by authority of State Board of Higher Education This examination covers the possibility of using
sawdust in Portland cement mortar (PCM) and include the effect of incorporate sand and the
certain other materials into the mixtures. From a consideration of the uses for which this material
may be employed, the more important properties are the compressive and tensile strengths and
the thermal conductivity. Tests were made on these points and also on the resistance of the
Ahmad Peer, Syed Azhar Nazir, Khubbab Fa Mohammad Assistant Professor, Department
Awantipora.
Concrete industry is a large scale industry of consuming the natural resource due to
which the sustainability of the concrete industry is under risk. The ecological and economic
concern is the biggest challenge concrete industry is facing. the issue of ecological and economic
concern are deal with the use of saw dust ash as partial replacement of the cement in concrete.
Cement was replace by Saw Dust Ash as 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% by weight designed for
M-25 mix. The concrete specimens were tested for compressive strength, durability (water
absorption) and density at 28 days of age and the results obtained were compared with those of
normal concrete. The results concluded the permissibility of using Saw Dust Ash as partial
The Increasing of the industrialization, the industrial by-product (wastes) being accumulated to
the large amount, leading to ecological and economic concerns associated to their dumping (land
filling). Wood ash is the scum produced from the incineration of wood and its products (chips,
saw dust, bark) uses for the power generation or other use. Cement is an energy broad industrial
service and lead to the production of a huge amount of greenhouse gases, forcing researchers to
come across for an alternative, such as a sustainable building practice. This paper presents the
work and studies done on the incorporation of wood ash as partial replacement of cement in
concrete from the year 1991 to 2012. The properties of wood ash such as its physical, chemical
and fundamental characteristics and control of wood ash properties such a water absorption,
split tensile test, workability, chloride permeability, compressive strength, concentration and acid
Olasunkanmi, C. S. Folorunso
This study considered the use of saw dust ash as pozzolan in the production of concrete.
the study investigated the physical properties and chemical composition of saw dust ash (SDA)
as well as the workability, and compressive strength properties of the concrete produced by
replacing 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% by weight of ordinary Portland cement with SDA.
compressive strength test on hardened concrete and compacting factors and slump taste be
carried out on the fresh concrete. The concrete cubes were tested at the ages of 3, 7, 28, 56 and
90 days. The results showed that SDA is a good pozzolan with combined SiO2, Al2O3 and
Fe2O3 of 73.07%. The compacting factor and slump factor get reduced as the SDA increases
signifies that concrete become less workable as the SDA content increase. The compressive
strength decreased with increasing SDA replacement. The compressive strength of concrete with
SDA was lower at early stages but improves significantly up to 90 days. An optimum value of
23.26N/mm2 at 90 days was obtained for concrete with 5% SDA replacement. It was concluded
This study compares the engineering properties of normal weight concrete with those
concrete and lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LWC) concrete. OPC is a porous solid waste
from the palm oil industry, while LWC is an artificial and impenetrable material. The
conventional concrete in a high-strength normal weight concrete were replaced by each of these
lightweight aggregates, and the effect of such replacement on the fresh and hardened properties
of the concrete was studied. The test results revealed that the OPC concrete outperforms the
LWC concrete in terms of workability, mechanical properties, and specific strength. The LWC
concrete achieved its maximum strength in 7 days, while the OPC concrete still had strength gain
by time. The LWC concrete demonstrated a greater drying shrinkage than both the normal
weight and OPC lightweight concretes between 14 days and 90 days. The use of OPC must
therefore be promoted to produce a cleaner and greener concrete that can benefit the construction
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
aggregate that used for building construction mainly in residential class concrete partition wall
and study the result of saw-dust concrete mixture in terms of adhesion of aggregates workability,
surface quality and thermic insulation. it also represent the aims to observe the factors affecting
the performance of saw-dust concrete mixture in terms of strength design a sawdust concrete
mixture as an another fine aggregates for inhabited class concrete slab and wall they will meet
the (American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) necessities to help contribution to the
industry in economy of the environment, to provide new ideas to the contractors and developers
as how they get better the construction industry methodology and services by using sawdust
concrete mixture, and sustain good product performance. A conventional concrete product was
compared to sawdust concrete mixture with recycled bottles of the same proportion in terms of
economic performance. Observations from the tests performed were conducted in the laboratory
The concrete mix ratio of 1:2:4. was prepared using W/C of 0.65 with 0%, 25%, 50%,
75% and 100% saw-dust as partial replacement as fine aggregate. The coefficient of uniformity
and coefficient of curvature ofthe sand used in this study was 1.049 and 1.324 respectively which
shows that the sand is a well graded sand asit does not exceed the range of 1 and 3 for ; and
maximum of 6 for specified by the British standard. The aggregate crushing value (ACV)
obtained is 43.75 which is within the specified value of 45 as specified by the British standard
(BS 812-110 1992).and the values of 40mm, 9mm and 5mm respectively was obtain as
workability at 0%, 25% and 50% in addition of aggregate using the saw-dust as partial
replacement for sand as aggregate, while 14.15 N/mm2, 12.96N/mm2 and 11.93 N/mm2, were
obtained for compressive strength with 25%, 75% and 100% sawdust as partial replacement. The
Compressive strength values obtained were found not to be conventional to the smallest amount
required of 17N/mm2 for light weight concrete (LWC). Using saw-dust in a fraction greater than
25% replacement of sand ishowever detrimental to strength and density properties of concrete.