100% Replacement Of Natural Sand By Stone Dust

Civil Engineering

In concrete, generally natural sand is used as a fine aggregate. Owing to increased construction activities and scarcity of natural resources, depletion of natural resources has become a great threat. The only way is to use alternative materials. So STONE DUST (M sand) is such an alternative material which can be effectively used in construction as a replacement of natural sand. The purpose of the study is to explore the eventuality of using M Sand as substitute of natural sand. M35 concrete mix is used in the present investigation. The outcomes will indicate that M Sand can be effectively used in reserve of natural sand in concrete. Substitution of the natural sand by M Sand was investigated. It observed that stone dust can be use as replace of natural sand by increasing certain amount of cement. With substitution of M Sand, demand of earth surface can be degraded and able to figure out the challenges of natural sand inadequacy. It has become very costly to construct a house in Maharashtra due to the presence of illegal natural sand market and that is the cause to find out for an alternative material.

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