This research is to develop high strength lightweight foam concrete; Foam concrete is also called as lightweight concrete. Light Weight foam concrete enables in reducing the dead weight of the total Structure. The foaming agent used in this research is an Animal base, to create foam for foam concrete. The consistency of foam concrete should be equal to 1000kg/m3. The compressive strength of the Light Weight Concrete varies from 6Mpa - 14Mpa. The main scope of the research is to increase the strength of the foam concrete by easily available sources. Foam concrete is an inventive applied science for viable construction in civil engineering applications. The property of foam concrete is to develop air bubbles with greater strength, stable during its manufacturing process by well mixing of ingredients, weathering condition on the site at the time of placing, and drying of concrete. The entire ratio is carried out only as trial mixes. The cube has been prepared for 7, 14, 28 days. Due to the presence of foam the cube should not be immersed in the water, only dry curing has been done. According to compressive strength result, the ratio which had the highest compressive strength can be used for both filling concrete and it can be used to create (Cellular Light Weight Concrete) CLC Blocks.
The fine aggregate is one of the important constituent in preparing concrete. Nowadays, fine aggregate is not fond in abundant quantity and so many replacements were done for river sand like crusher sand, M-sand, bottom ash etc. In this study the replacement is done partially for the fine aggregate with bottom ash which is extracted from Mettur Power Plant. The bottom ash and sand proportions is taken as 10:90, 20:80, 30:70, 40:60, 50:50 (M1,M2,M3,M4 and M5 respectively). The basic tests for all material used in concrete preparation were determined. M20 grade of concrete is casted and the test on fresh concrete is determined for conventional and partially replaced concrete. The specimens (beams, cylinders and cubes) were casted and kept under curing for 7 and 28 days from the cured concrete specimen’s hardened concrete test were determined. The strengt h of concrete for ratios 10:90 and 20:80 are having nearly equal strength comparing to normal concrete. Hence ratio 20:80 is advisable by this experimental study.
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