COMPARING STRENGTH CHARACTERISTICS OF CONCRETE BY ADDING SUGAR, STARCH, JIGGERY WATER

Civil Engineering

The significance of study of the performance and properties of concrete can be decorated by making an allowance for the fact that concrete is the most used man-made material in the world. The incredibly first step of making concrete is its mix design and deciding the type and amount of constitutes used in the making of concrete which should accomplish the necessities of the final manufactured goods. Mix design models are normally used for the function of proportioning concrete ingredients while anticipating the properties of the final product. The work executed in this thesis deals with the commonly used principals in mix design models namely particle packing theory and excess water/paste layer theories. The conducted studies includes an investigation on accuracy of particle packing models (Toufar, 4C, CPM) and also tries to address the issue with measurement of specific surface area of particles as an essential input to water/paste layer theories.It has been observed that the particle packing models can predict the packing density with acceptable margin.

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