Smart Concrete Curing System

Abstract

In the present era, water scarcity is the biggest problem. In Construction potable water is required for mixing and curing of concrete. The curing process is required for 28 days. So the water requirement in the construction field for curing purposes is very large. Due to various reasons, potable water availability is decreasing day by day. So it is required to spend a considerable amount on the procurement of water. To control the wastage of water for curing it is necessary to use water in a controlled manner by adopting advanced technology. It is known as a smart concrete curing system. The smart concrete curing system is developed to create an automatic curing mechanism to supply water for curing depending on the availability of moisture in the concrete and surrounding temperature using moisture sensor. The system will be connected to the internet using Wi-Fi. The current moisture content level of the concrete structure and the pump status will be pushed to the cloud. A mobile app will access this data from the cloud. So that the curing process monitoring can be done remotely. Results shown that strength of the cube with smart concrete curing system is more than the strength of the cube with immersion curing.

Performance Characteristics of Silica fume based concrete made with Graphene Oxide

“…Silica fume is the finer material, it is an iron industry by-product, the particle size is much finer on comparing with average cement particle size, it used in concrete as the strength enhancer, with the increased surface area the products formed in the process of hydration are calcium silicate hydrate (CSH) gel, helps the concrete to attain high early and ultimate strengths with improved mechanical properties, and durable parameters as well Vikas et al (2013) [9], with its functionalities in concrete SF used in the preparation of the high performance concrete Mehmet Gesoğlu et al(2007) [10] examined the properties of plain and rubberized concretes with and without silica fume in terms of strength development and chloride permeability. In order to do this, two varieties of tyre rubbertire chips and crumb rubber-were utilised as coarse and fine aggregate, respectively, in the creation of rubberized concrete mixtures.…”