MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HEAVY WEIGHT CONCRETE USING HEAVY WEIGHT COARSE-AGGREGATE AS HEMATITE (FE58 HIGH GRADE IRON ORE)

B. Sagar Singh, K.V.Ramana

Abstract: Density concrete is commonly used for radiation shielding of nuclear-reactors and other structures like counter weights, coating of off-shore pipelines. Density concrete or heavy weight concrete is designed by using heavy weight aggregates such as hematite, magnetite, barite etc. The material is called hematite is used in this special concrete. Integral part of this paper is replacing coarse-aggregate by hematite aggregate partially from 0 to 50% volume at 25% intervals. The concrete mix as per IS-10262-(2009) is used for M25 and M35 grades of concrete and in this only coarse aggregate is replaced with heavy weight hematite coarse aggregate and natural sand is used as fine aggregate and three levels of silica fume at 5%, 10% and 15% are used by weight of cement. All mixes are designed for 100mm slump. Water-cement ratio as per grade of concrete

Keywords: Density Concrete, Hematite, Heavy Weight Aggregate, Compressive Strength, Silica Fume

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0309040