CHARACTERISTICS OF CONCRETE

SAMPLE SYNOPSIS

Synopsis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of

Master of Technology in Structural

Engineering

by
SUMAN MARK

SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL AND BUILDING SCIENCES

March, 2018
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER TITLE NO.
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 GENERAL 1
1.2 OBJECTIVE 1
1.3 METHODOLOGY 1
2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2
3 MATERIALS AND PROPERTIES 3
3.1 CEMENT 3
3.2 AGGREGATE 3
4 EXPERIMENTAL TESTS AND RESULTS 4
4.1 GENERAL 4
4.2 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES 4
4.2.1 COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH 4
5 CONCLUSIONS 5
REFERENCES 5

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 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1.1 GENERAL
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significance of your research and the importance of it.

1.2 OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE

1. To understand the effect of masonry on RC frame.
2. To compare the compressive strength property of concrete at different
mix proportions.
The study is limited to compressive characteristics of cube.
The study considered only M sand in the mix proportion.
1.3 METHODOLOGY
The steps followed in achieving the objectives are as follows:
1. Mix design has been done according to IS 10262.
2. M sand proportion is varied from 0 % to 50 %
3. Compressive strength has been conducted at 28 day, 56 day, 180 day
4. The results were compared at different proportions

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 CHAPTER 2
REVIEW OF LITERATURE

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there are no initials.
Mark and Suman (2006) studied the modern construction masonry material and also
analyzed.
Janani, Revanth and Mani (2005) studied the innovative concept on geopolymer concrete
(GC) which uses fly ash (FA) instead of cement for the binding property.
Nagajothi and Elavenil (2002) studied the strength assessment of geopolymer concrete
(GC) involving low calcium fly ash as a replacement for binding material and artificial
material m-sand for conventional river sand. Mechanical properties were assessed for 7 &
28 day curing periods by varying the percentage of m-sand as 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%
and 100% in the mix.

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 CHAPTER 3
MATERIALS AND PROPERTIES
3.1 FLYASH
Generally, two types of fly ash such as Class C and Class F are available in market and
thereby used relatively according to the type of concrete mix under study. This research
work involves low calcium fly ash (class F). The chemical and physical properties of the
same conforming to IS 3812 – 2003 are tabulated in Table 1.

Table 1 Physical Properties of Fly ash

S.No Description Result

1. Specific Gravity 2.45
2. Initial Setting Time 110
3. Final Setting Time 210
4. Consistency 33%
5. Class of Fly ash Class F
6. Bulk Density 1435 Kg/m3

3.2 FINE AGGREGATE

Fine aggregate was utilized by both river and manufactured sand (of Zone II) passing
through 4.75mm sieve was taken after catering to all norms of Indian standards as per IS
383:2016 “Coarse and fine aggregate for concrete specification”.

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 CHAPTER 4
RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

4.1 GENERAL
The various mechanical and durability properties of the casted specimens under various
tests after achieving desired strength post curing, over the proposed time period of 28 and
56 day span are depicted in detail with suitable graphical plots.

4.2 MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

4.2.1 COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH

The cube specimens were tested under monotonic loading increasing stepwise until
failure. The rate of loading was in the range of 1.0mm/min. the capacity of the
Compressive testing machine (CTM) was 2000kN. Figure 2 shows the comparison of
compressive strength at 28 and 56 day over the various mixes.

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ANALYTICAL DATA
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Crack Depth (mm)

0
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000

No of cycles (N)

Fig. 1 Analytical data

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 CHAPTER 5
CONCLUSION
 Results of compressive strength analysis (Fig. 1) indicated that, the strength
variation with respect to river sand and manufactured sand for the various geo
polymer mixes after 28 and 56 days showed increased values for m-sand in
contrary with river sand in the range 18.62%, 11.33% and 10% for GP-1, 2 and 3
respectively.

REFERENCES
[1] C. Sashidar, Jithendra R, Suman T and Baskar V “Fresh and Strength Properties
of Self compacting Geopolymer Concrete Using Manufactured Sand”
International journal of chemtech Research, Vol.8, No.7, 2015, pp 183-190.
[2] S.Nagajothi and S.Elavenil “Strength assessment of concrete using m-sand”
International Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.8, No. 6, 2002, pp 230-250