AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON PAPERCRETE BRICKS MANUFACTURED USING PAPER PULP, GGBS, QUARRY DUST, AND FLY ASH.

Priyanka V
Student, BTech, Department of Civil Engineering, Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. , IN

K Sai Gopi
Student, BTech, Department of Civil Engineering, Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. , IN

T Joshmitha
Student, BTech, Department of Civil Engineering, Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. , IN

B Deepchand
Student, BTech, Department of Civil Engineering, Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. , IN

K Prasad
Student, BTech, Department of Civil Engineering, Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. , IN

M Sai Charan
Student, BTech, Department of Civil Engineering, Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. , IN

G Yogendra Pavan
Student, BTech, Department of Civil Engineering, Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. , IN

Ch Veerottam Kumar
Student, BTech, Department of Civil Engineering, Ramachandra College of Engineering, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. , IN

Keywords: Papercrete, Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS), Fly Ash, Quarry dust, Compressive strength, Sustainable building and Paper waste.

Abstract

Papercrete is nothing but paper and concrete wherever the papers like newspaper, cardboards etc. are chopped into paper pulp and thereby adding hydraulic cement and sand to it. The chemical element bonds gift in microstructure of paper offers strength to it. Same as concrete, this thick combine may be poured to any moulds and solid into any desired form or size. As most of the materials employed in it are industrial wastes and construction materials in reduced quantity, it's a sustainable material. This idea conjointly helps in reducing environmental hazards caused by construction industry. However there's no correct code for the combo proportioning of papercrete bricks. So a combination proportion of [Cement: Paper: sand] 1:1:2 was chosen unproved and error basis. During this study, cement is partly replaced by GGBS because it has cement properties and composition. Rather than sand, Quarry dust is employed that is partly replaced by fly ash to boost the strength to weight quantitative relation. All the required engineering properties are studied and compared with the standard bricks and discussions on its potential uses are created.

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