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| Advances in Concrete Construction Volume 5, Number 5, October 2017, pages 437-450 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/acc.2017.5.5.437 | |
Properties of concrete incorporating granulated blast
furnace slag as fine aggregate
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Rakesh Kumar Patra and Bibhuti Bhusan Mukharjee
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| Abstract [Full Text] | |
| The present work investigates about the development of a novel construction material by utilizing Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GBS), an industrial waste product, as substitution of natural fine aggregates. For this, experimental work has been carried out to determine the influence of GBS on the properties of concrete such as compressive strength (CS), modulus of elasticity, ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV), chloride penetration, water absorption (WA) volume of voids (VV) and density. Concrete mixes of water/cement (w/c) ratios 0.45 and 0.5, and incorporating 20%, 40% and 60% of GBS as partial replacement of natural fine aggregate (sand) are designed for this study. The results of the experimental investigation depict that CS of concrete mixes increases with the increasing percentages of GBS. Moreover, the decrease in chloride penetration, WA and VV, and improvement in the modulus of elasticity, UPV, density of concrete is reported with the increasing percentage of GBS in concrete. | |
| Key Words | |
| compressive strength; granulated blast furnace slag; volume of voids; water absorption; modulus of elasticity | |
| Address | |
| Rakesh Kumar Patra: Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Science and Technology, Palur Hills, Brahmapur, Odisha, India Bibhuti Bhusan Mukharjee: Department of Civil Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India | |
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