EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF M30 CONCRETE WITH PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT AND FINE AGGREGATE WITH SILICA FUME AND COPPER SLAG

Pranshu Saxena

Abstract: The present investigation revealed the effect of using silica fume and copper slag as a partial replacement of cement and fine aggregate, respectively on the mechanical properties of the concrete. Due to the depletion of natural sand resource worldwide with the increment of industrial waste, simultaneously, partial replacements of fine aggregate with copper slag have been attempted. Therefore, the primary objective of this research work was to conduct the study on M30 concrete whose compressive, tensile and flexural strength was observed. For this study, the fixed amount of silica fume (10%) and the different proportion of copper slag (10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50%) were replaced with cement and fine aggregate, respectively.

Keywords: Copper slag, silica fume, by-product

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0405053