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Properties of Green Concrete Using Light Weight Aggregates

Jyoti ., Ajit Joon, Sonam Kumari, Sitender Chillar

Abstract


With the growing distress over the needless exploitation of natural aggregates, synthetic lightweight aggregate produced from the environmental waste is a feasible new source of structural aggregate material. Unique with expanding worry over the inordinate misuse of characteristic totals, engineered light weight total delivered from natural waste is a feasible new wellspring of auxiliary total material. The engagements of auxiliary review lightweight cement minimise remarkably the self-heap of a structure and permit bigger precast units to be taken care of. In the present paper, the mechanical properties of an auxiliary review lightweight total made with fly powder and earth will be exhibited. The discoveries demonstrated that water ingestion of the green total is substantial yet the devastating quality of the subsequent cement can be high. The 28-day solid shape compressive quality of the subsequent lightweight total cement with thickness of 1,590 kg/m3 and individual quality of 34 MPa. Experience of using the green lightweight total cement in construction of solid components is additionally examined.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijct.v4i1.286

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