Study of Cement Property Blended with Locally Available Clay Material

Abstract

Study Of Cement Property Blended With Locally Available Clay Material Nowadays building construction work is going faster and leads to demand in construction material. So we are in an intense need to use the locally available materials for construction work. Clay an available material mostly prevails in Southern India.

In this study clay is acting as a blending material with respect to cement and also compare the strength of conventional concrete with blended clay concrete by partially adding of clay with cement as a percentage of 5%, 10%, 15% & 20% in a normal concrete mix. The investigations are to be carried out using compressive test, split tensile and flexural test.

Conclusion

The following results are obtained.

• The compressive strength of concrete increases upto 10% and the percentage increase was 12.8% at the age of 28day by addition of clay when compared to conventional concrete
• The split tensile strength of concrete increases upto 5% and the percentage increase was 0.84% at the age of 28day by addition of clay when compared to conventional concrete
• The flexural strength of concrete increases upto 10 % and the percentage increase was 4.5% at the age of 28day by addition of clay when compared to conventional concrete