EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ANCIENT ADMIXTURE AND NATURAL FIBRE IN CONCRETE

S.Karthikeyan, A.A.Elangovan

Abstract: In the ancient times they had utilized the materials like egg, blood, animal fat, cactus extract in the concrete as admixtures. Generally the admixtures having specific characteristics as accelerating, retarding, air entraining and water reducing abilities. In this study we utilized the ancient admixture as egg albumen and natural fiber as coir fiber in concrete. To identify the characteristics of these materials belonging to the very distant past and no longer existence in the current concrete industry, so that we conduct the experiment with natural fiber and ancient admixture in concrete to determine the effect of concrete and egg albumen is the material which had been used in the distant past and addition of coir fiber for expecting the concrete should have better results. This experiment includes the specimens with 0.2percent of natural fiber and 2percent of ancient admixture as EC1 , 0.4 percent of natural fiber and 4 percent of ancient admixture as EC2, 0.6 percent of natural fiber and 6 percent of ancient admixture as EC3 and control mix. Mix design to be prepared for M20 concrete. The concrete specimens were made and tested for hardened concrete test. Finally compare the results with all the specimens including control mix.

Keywords: Egg albumen, coir fiber, cement, and aggregate

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0412006