A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE PROPERTIES OF SCC WITH BLENDED CEMENT

Civil Engineering

Concrete is the most important and versatile engineering material and with increase in trend towards the wider use of concrete for a number of applications in construction, there is a growing demand of concrete with higher compressive strength. Advancement in technology demand certain properties of the concrete related to strength and durability to be improved to a greater extent; particularly mineral admixtures are indispensible in production of high strength concrete (HSC) for practical applications. One of the types of concrete now-a-days being used in construction is Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) which is a paramount advancement within concrete technology having a major impact on concrete practices. In this view, a review was done on various properties of SCC with blended cement. The present paper explores the recent innovations in SCC and the reviewed literature broadly signifies and focuses on use of innovative materials in SCC and their effect on fresh, mechanical, non-destructive, sulphate and chloride attack properties of SCC to find out the advantages and disadvantages of using SCC in practice. The reviewed literature indicates broad variation in behavior and performance of various properties of SCC containing different innovative materials.

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