A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON GRAPHENE WITH CEMENT CONCRETE

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Concrete is one of the most widely recognized material. Superiority of concrete over other construction material is due to high compressive strength along with other advantages such as water resistant, low maintenance cost, ease in mould ability to required size and shape, less energy input in manufacture and so on. Thus, concrete requires some form of tensile reinforcement. In this study graphene is added to the M30 grade of concrete to improve the compressive strength, flexural strength, split tensile strength and to prevent the cracking of concrete subjected to tensile stress. The process of mixing water with graphene is known as “High Shear Exfoliation”. The contrast between concrete and graphene is quite stark. Graphene reinforced concrete also minimizes the “Alkali-Silica Reaction”. In this project, to investigate the graphene and its derivatives with cement composites. The graphene is used in this study contained functional groups with silicon oxides, which were polymerized and inactive for chemical interaction with the cement hydrates. Graphene also works as anti-corrosion coating We are conducting experiments on concrete specimens of cubes size (150x150x150)mm and beams (500x100x100) mm with addition of various percentages of graphene i.e. 0.5 %, 1.0%, 1.5% and 2.0% by weight of cement and results were compared with those of normal cement concrete. For each percentage of graphene added in concrete specimens were tested for their respective mechanical properties at curing periods of 7, 14 & 28 days. The results were obtained the “Optimum Strength of Concrete

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