EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE WITH PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT WITH MARBLE POWDER

Abstract

The advancement of concrete technology can reduce the consumption of natural resources and energy sources
and lessen the burden of pollutants on environment. Presently large amounts of marble dust are generated in
natural stone processing plants with an important impact on environment and humans. This project describes
the feasibility of using the marble sludge dust in concrete production as partial replacement of cement. In
INDIA, the marble and granite stone processing is one of the most thriving industry the effects if varying
marble dust contents on the physical and mechanical properties of fresh and hardened concrete have been
investigated. Slump and air content of fresh concrete and absorption and compressive strength of hardened
concrete were also investigated. Test results show that this industrial bi product is capable of improving
hardened concrete performance up to 10%. In the present work A series of laboratory experiments was
conducted to find the fresh properties of concrete like flow ability and passing ability and also the testing on
hardened concrete is also done to find compressive strength, split tensile strength, and flexural strength of
concrete with several percentage of marble powder. The effects of marble powder on these properties are
studied with the partial replacement of cement in 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%.