Replacement of Cement and Fine Aggregate by Ceramic Powder and Copper Slag in Concrete

Abstract

Increase in industrialization and urbanization, the use of buildings also increased which results in continuous usage of construction material leads to scarcity of the concrete materials. To overcome the issues many research were done to use many industrial waste as alternative or substantial material for concreting. Concrete, a homogeneous mixture of cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and water is widely been used in construction activities. But cement and fine aggregate are becoming consequently costlier and their demand also increases every day. More studies were carried out replacing cement but ceramic powder and replacing fine aggregate by copper slag separately. From the literature review we can to know maximum percentage of replacement of ingredients. In this study, different mix proportions were carried out by replacing different percentage of ceramic powder and copper slag. From the experimental results, it was observed that compressive strength was increased about 35.80% when compared to conventional concrete.