Copyright © 2026 Authors retain the copyright of this article. This article is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

@article{184128,
        author = {Mohammed Mohsan Ul Haque and Mohammed Mudabir Ul Haque},
        title = {Improving strength of concrete using alccofine and rice husk ash},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {4},
        pages = {188-192},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=184128},
        abstract = {Now a days concrete utilization is increasing worldwide. Huge amount of concrete usage leads to scarcity of natural resources. Many researches have been investigated to enhance the properties or quality of the conventional concrete by adding some other materials to the conventional concrete. In this study we are using Alccofine and Rice husk ash as a cementitious material. The main objective of this paper is to increase strength of concrete by using Alccofine and rice husk ash as partially replacement by weight of cement. Alccofine is a new generation supplementary cementitious material (SCMs) for production of high strength concrete and high-performance concrete. Rice husk ash is an agricultural rice paddy wastage. It can be generated by heating rice husk at the temperature of below 800oC. Alccofine and rice husk ash are added by weight of cement to produce high strength concrete and reduce environmental issues. This paper shows the mechanical properties of concrete by using alccofine and rice husk ash. An experimental investigation carried out on concrete consist of alccofine and rice husk ash in the range of 0%, 5%,10%, 15%, 20% respectively, by weight of cement for M30 grade of concrete. Materials were collected, tested and compared with conventional concrete in terms of workability, compressive strength, flexural strength, tensile strength, rebound hammer test and durability tests. The tests were done by using standard cube of 150×150×150 mm, prism500 ×100× 100 mm and cylinder 150 mm diameter and 300 mm height specimens at the age of 28 days.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {September},
        }