EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF CONCRETE BY PARTIAL

REPLACEMENT OF SAND BY GLASS POWDER

A PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by

Dhinesh kumar P (911715103701)

Saravanan K (911715103703)
Prakash A (911715103070)
Sudhakar S (911715103502)

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERIING

in

CIVIL ENGINEERING

MOUNT ZION COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY

PUDUKKOTTAI – 622 507

ANNA UNIVERSITY: CHENNAI 600 025

APRIL 2019

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 ANNA UNIVERSITY : CHENNAI - 600 025
BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE
Certified that this project report “EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF
CONCRETE BY PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF SAND BY GLASS
POWDER”

is the Bonafide work of Dhinesh Kumar P (911715103701), Saravanan K

(911715103703), Prakash A (911715103970), Sudhakar S (911715103502)
who carried out the project work under my supervision.

Mr.M.VIJAYA PRAKASH,M.TECH., Mr.S.SUJINJOSE,M.E.,

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
MOUNT ZION COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH MOUNT ZION COLLEGE OF ENGG & TECH
PUDUKOTTAI - 622507 PUDUKOTTAI - 622507

Submitted for the project viva - voice Examination held at Mount Zion College of
Engineering and Technology, Pudukkottai on ……………………………………

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL EXAMINER

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
From my deepest soul, I thank god, the almighty for helping me to complete
my project work.
I am very thankful to our beloved Chairman Mr. K. Jayabarathan
Chelliah, M.A(USA), B.Ed., of the mount zion college of engineering and
technology.
I express my sincere gratitiude to our beloved director Mr. Jayson K.
Jayabarathan, M.Tech.,Ph.D., for having provided me all the facilities to be
make my project successful.
I take this opportunity to express my thanks to our beloved principal
Dr.P.Balamurugan,M.E.,Ph.D., for their co-operative guidance and
encouragement.
I am extremely grateful our beloved H.O.D, of civil engineering department
Mr. M. Vijaya Prakash, MTech., for her help, encouragement, and technical idea
for the well completion of this project.
We are highly grateful to Mr. D.S. Ramamurthy, M.E., who is assistant
professor, department of civil engineering, for this valuable suggestions and
guidance throughout, the course of this project. His positive approach had offered
incessant help in all possible ways from the beginning.
Our greatest department of gratitude to my entire teaching and non-teaching
staff members who were also the reasons for success this project.

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 ABSTRACT
Glass powder (GP) used in concrete making leads to greener environment. In
shops, damaged glass sheets & sheet glass cuttings are going to waste, which are
not recycled at present and usually delivered to landfills for disposal. Using GP in
concrete is an interesting possibility for economy on waste disposal sites and
conservation of environment. This project examines the possibility of using GP as
fine aggregate replacement in concrete. Natural sand was partially replaced (0%-
30%) with GP in concrete. Tensile strength, Compressive strength (cubes and
cylinders) and Flexural strength up to 28 days of age were compared with those of
high-performance concrete made with natural sand.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER TITLE PAGE NO
ABSTRACT iv
LIST OF FIGURES vii
LIST OF TABLES viii
LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATION x
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 GENERAL 1
1.2 OBJECTIVES 2
1.3 METHODOLOGY 3
2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE 4
3 MATERIALS AND METHODS
3.1 MATERIALS USED 11
3.1.1 Cement 11
3.1.2 Fine aggregate 12
3.1.3 Coarse aggregate 16
3.1.4 Water 17
3.1.5 Glass powder 17
4 MIX DESIGN
4.1 Used Materials 15
4.2 Specific gravity of concrete materials 15
5 TESTING OF CONCRETE
5.1 Fresh Concrete 19
5.2 Properties of fresh concrete 19
5.3 Workability 20
5.4 Factor affecting workability 20

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 5.5 Slump test 21
5.6 Hardened Concrete 21
5.6.1 Compression Strength Test 21
5.6.2 Split Tensile Test 21
5.6.3 Flexural Test 22
6 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
6.1 Result 23
7 CONCLUSION 34
Reference 37

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 LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE NO TITLE PAGE NO

8.1 Concrete mixing 36

8.2 Concrete molding 36

8.3 Casting of concrete 36

8.4 Test on compression 36

8.5 Test on split tension 36

8.6 Test on flexure strength 36

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 LIST OF TABLES

TABLE NO TITLE PAGE NO

1.1 Working methodology 03

3.1 Physical properties of cement 07

3.2 Percentage of oxide composition 08

3.3 Sieve analysis of fine aggregate 09

3.4 Properties of fine aggregate 10

3.5 Grading of separated fine sand 11

3.6 Sieve analysis of coarse aggregate 12

3.7 Properties of coarse aggregate 12

3.8 Glass powder 13

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 LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATION

SYMBOLS DESCRIPTION

Gm Gram

Kg Kilogram

kN Kilo Newton

lit Liter

N Newton

mg Milligram

mm Millimeter

Cm Centimeter

M Meter

mm2 Square Millimeter

m3 Cubic meter

SCC Self curing concrete

% Percentage

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