Mix Design for M40 Grade of Concrete as per IS 10262:2009

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The Masterbuilder Bureau

October 20, 2014

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Abstract: The main aim of this project is to provide the general mix design for any
grade of concrete, so that, this project contains the mix design for M40 grade of
concrete, as per IS 10262:2009. In this project, the mix shall be designed to
produce the required grade of concrete having the designated workability, and
characteristic compressive strength, which will not be less then the appropriate
values as per IS 10262:2009.by this project, the required mix design will be
obtained by changing the corresponding values with respective areas. Then we can
obtain the required mix design for different grades of concrete.

In this project, general mix proportion is providing us the general procedure for nay
grade of concrete. In the field of construction, concrete is the main material made
up of different type of materials. The concrete is of different grades and each grade
of concrete is useful for different properties and place. Generally these are two type
of concrete,

1. By Designing 2. By Adopting

1. By designing the concrete mix, concrete is called as Design Mix Concrete.

2. By adopting the concrete mix, concrete is called as Nominal Mix Concrete.

From the above two type of concrete, design mix concrete procedure is applied in
this project. The mix design procedure shall be selected to ensure the workability of
fresh concrete. As per IS 456:2000, several information should be provided for
design mix concrete pg.no 22.

Design Mix Concrete

Design mix concrete is the type of concrete used in construction, to produce the
grade of concrete having the required workability and characteristic strength
nominal mix, will reduce the cement content which is used in concrete reduce the
water cement ratio also will increase the strength. In this project, general procedure
has been given for the concrete of grades very from this procedure of M40grade of
concrete the different grades such as M40 to M40 has been obtained by changing
the values as per Indian standard 10dis. so it is much easier to design the mix ratio
for grade of concrete up to M40.

Required Data:

Characteristics compressive strength (fck) = 40 Mpa

Maximum cement1 content = 450kg/m
Degree of workability = 0.8 compacting factor
Grade of cement = OPC 53
Specific gravity of cement = 3.15
Specific gravity of sand = 2.6
Specific gravity of aggregate = 2.6
Maximum size of aggregate = 20mm

1. Target mean strength for mix design

The target mean compressive strength at 28 days is given by,
fck = fck+ts
= 40+1.65*5 (t= 1.65 and s = 5) from
IS 10262:2009
= 48.25 N/mm

2. Selection of water cement ratio

W/c ratio = 40% from IS 456:2000 table no: 5

3. Selection of water content

Maximum water content for 20mm aggregate = 180 Kg.

4. Estimation of entrapped air

Entrapped air = 2% for 20mm aggregate (from IS 10262:1982 table3)1

5. Determination of cement content

Cement content = mass of water/ (w/c ratio)
= 180/0.4
= 450 kg/m

6. Determination of coarse and fine aggregate:

fa = 623.63 kg/m

= 1084.95 kg/m

Experimental Work:

Initial test:

For the design mix concrete, it is necessary to do the initial test for all materials
which are going to be used in concrete. Like wise the result of the initial test are
equal to the appropriate values provided in the Indian standards. So it is noted that,
the materials can be used in the concrete for design mix concrete.

Laboratory test

To check out the theoretical results as per Indian standard with the practical results.
The cubes will casted and cured and tested.

Compressive strength test

From the design mix concrete, the results are necessary to be equal, for that the
cubes of size 50mmX150mmx 150mm have been casted. The casted cubes are to be
tested for 3rd day, 7day and 28th day. The result of this will be compared with the
target mean strength of theoretical values which are obtained.

Result

Acknowledgement:

The authors are thank full to Mr.M. Vadivel and Mr.M.Praveen Kumar professor of
Civil Engineering Department at Nehru Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.
Conclusion

From this project it is concluded that, the comparison between the theoretical results
and laboratory test results are compared, which are almost equal, so we concluded
that the design mix concrete is better than nominal mix concrete.

Reference

1 Concrete mix proportioning-guidelines IS 10262:2009

2 Recommended guidelines for concrete mix design IS 10262:1982
3 Plain reinforced concrete-code of practice IS 456:2000
4 SP 23 (1982): Handbook on concrete mixes [CED 2: Cement and Concrete].
5 IS 516 (1959): Method of test for strength of concrete [CED 2: Cement and
concrete