Experimental Analysis of properties of Conventional and Light Weight Concrete mixed with Brick and Ceramic Tile Waste

  • Unique Paper ID: 151097
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 11
  • PageNo: 598-604
  • Abstract:
  • Due to the day to day innovations and development in construction field, the use of natural aggregates is increased tremendously and at the same time, the production of solid wastes from the demolitions of constructions is also quite high. Because of these reasons the reuse of demolished constructional wastes like ceramic tile and brick waste came into the picture to reduce the solid waste and to reduce the scarcity of natural aggregates for making concrete. The ceramic tile waste and brick waste are not only occurring from the demolition of structures but also from the manufacturing unit. Studies show that about 20-30% of material prepared in the brick and tile manufacturing plants are transforming into waste. This waste material should have to be reused in order to deal with the limited resource of natural aggregate and to reduce the construction wastes. Crushed waste ceramic tiles and brick waste are used as a replacement to the coarse aggregates. The ceramic waste crushed tiles and crushed brick waste were partially replaced in place of coarse aggregates by 0%, 25% and 50%. M25 grade of concrete was designed and tested. The mix design for different types of mixes were prepared by replacing the coarse aggregates at different percentages of crushed tiles and bricks. Experimental investigations like workability, Compressive strength test, Split tensile strength test, Flexural strength test for different concrete mixes with different percentages of waste crushed tile and brick waste after 14 days curing period has done.

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