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@article{203276,
        author = {Kamalakar Sontakke Sontakke and A B Khemalapure and Dr. Mrs. P M Alandkar},
        title = {Durability & Mechanical Characteristics of Sustainable Self Curing Concrete Utilizing Natural & Recycled Aggregates},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {10852-10857},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=203276},
        abstract = {High-performance concrete is defined as concrete that meets special combinations of performance and uniformity requirements that cannot always be achieved routinely using conventional constituents and normal mixing, placing, and curing practices. Also, it is very important to maintain the water cement ratio within the minimal range, for that we have to use the water reducing admixture i.e. superplasticizer, which plays an important role for the production of high-performance concrete. So, we herein the project has tested on different materials like rice husk ash, Ground granulated blast furnace slag, silica fume to obtain the desired needs. Also X-ray diffraction test was conducted on different pozzolanic material used to analyses their content ingredients. We used synthetic fiber (I.e. Recon fiber) in different percentage i.e. 0.0%, 0.5%, 1%, 2% to that of total weight of concrete and casting was done. Finally, we used different percentage of silica fume with the replacement of cement keeping constant fiber content and concrete was cast. In our study it was used two types of cement, Portland slag cement and ordinary Portland cement. We prepared mortar, cubes, cylinder and finally compressive test, splitting test, flexural test are conducted. Also to obtain such performances that cannot be obtained from conventional concrete and by the current method, a large number of trial mixes are required to select the desired combination of materials that meets special Performance.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {May},
        }