EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON STRENGTH CHARACTERSTICS OF CONCRETE WITH PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT WITH GRANITE SLURRY AND PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF AGGREGATE WITH QUARTZ STONE

Abstract

In the environmental, the waste material is available on the resources with an important consumption and growing need for aggregates, The granite production and high volume of quartz stone material is generated as a amount of waste material, Almost 65% of this waste material gets wasted on the processing and polishing stages which have a serious impact on the environment. And the granite slurry is also an production waste. So it has become these wastes particularly in the manufacture of concrete products for construction purposes. The objective of these study to possibility of using quartz stone material as a substitute rather than natural aggregates along with waste granite slurry powder as substitute of cement. This experimental study was carried out an two series of concrete mixes, gravel substitution mixture and mixture of cement and gravel substitution. The concrete foundations were produced with constant water/cement ratio. The results obtains that the strength characteristics of concrete specimens produced using quartz stone mixing up with the granite slurry powder and cement replacement with the granite slurry powder were found to conform with concrete production standards and substitution of natural aggregates by waste quartz stone and granite slurry up to 20% and 10% respectively along with submission of cement by granite waste slurry powder up to 10% of any formulation for concrete. The results obtained show that the strength characteristics of concrete specimens produced using quartz stone, Quartz stone aggregate along with granite waste slurry powder were found to conform with concrete production standards and substitution of natural aggregates by quartz stone aggregates up to 20% along with submission of cement by granite waste slurry powder
up to 10% of any formulation is beneficial for concrete.