Self-Curing Concrete Using Water-Soluble Polymerfor Developing Countries

Abstract

In a developing country construction of residential and commercial buildings including roads construction plays a vital roleof economic development and usage of various construction materials, such as cement, sands, and water are quite common. Water is an important resource for preparing and curing of concrete. In present situation, water resource is very constraint around the world and construction industry need the alternate solution to manage this water crisis. Using of alternative materials reduces the construction costs directly. In this regard, proposed to introduce the chemical of Polyethylene Glycol PEG400 for self-curing of concrete. This study deals with the investigation on self-curing concrete with added % of PEG400 by weight of cement from 0% to 1.5% as the quantity for self-curingcomponent. Test results were investigated and compared with conventional and self-curedconcreteon compressive, flexural and split tensile strength for M20 grade mix. The result found that PEG 400 provides good results of self-curing concrete.