Comparing the Effect of Marble Powder and Brick Powder in Concrete

  Dr.D.Jayganesh

The main objective of waste management system is to maximize economic benefits and at the same time protection of the environment. Marble is an igneous rock which is widely used as construction material in different forms. Marble industries produce lot of dust and waste materials. Dumping of brick dust and other waste brick particles, flakes etc., not only occupy land but also create environmental problems. If this material is possible to be used for partial cement replacement it is of benefit both economically and environmentally. The effect on strength properties of concrete in replacing some portion of cement by Marble fines and Brick dust in M20 grade concrete. The research work carried out included an experimental investigation on strength properties of concrete made with 30% ,35%, 40%of marble fines and same percentage brick dust replace the cement of less than 90 micron particle size. The experimental work was carried o of river sand as fine aggregate in concrete. Test is also carried out in Graded concrete using of 20 mm coarse aggregate used. The tests were carried out to find the compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength on specimens. Results showed that replacement of cement by Brick dust gives high strength in compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and flexural strength.

Keywords- Waste Management, Marble fines, Brick dust, Graded Concrete, Compressive, Split tensile, Flexural strength.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1901045
Page Number(s) - 245-251
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 1 | February 2019
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Dr.D.Jayganesh,   "Comparing the Effect of Marble Powder and Brick Powder in Concrete", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 1, pp.245-251, February 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1901045.pdf