Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash

Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is a concrete which can be placed and compacted under its self-weight with little or no vibration effort, and is at the same time, cohesive enough to be handled without segregation or bleeding. SCC is used to facilitate and ensure proper filling and good structural per...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ehsan, Abdul Haq
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48827/25/AbdulHaqEhsanMFKA2014.pdf
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

id	my-utm-ep.48827
record_format	uketd_dc
spelling	my-utm-ep.488272020-06-24T03:48:07Z Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash 2014-08 Ehsan, Abdul Haq TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is a concrete which can be placed and compacted under its self-weight with little or no vibration effort, and is at the same time, cohesive enough to be handled without segregation or bleeding. SCC is used to facilitate and ensure proper filling and good structural performance of restricted areas and heavily reinforced structural members. SCC is a flowing concrete with high workability. To achieve flowing concrete low volume of coarse aggregates is used, but the reduction in volume of coarse aggregates require high volume of paste, i.e. cement and fine aggregates, and use of super-plasticizers. Increased volume of cement and addition of super-plasticizer leads to higher cost. The cost of cement can be reduced by using supplementary cementitious materials. One of the potential recycle materials from palm oil industry is palm oil fuel ash (POFA). Palm oil is extracted from the fruit and copra of the palm oil tree. Self-Compacting concrete using POFA has been one of the researching focuses in Malaysia. This study outlines laboratory tests conducted for fresh and hardened properties of SCC incorporating POFA. This study determines the feasibility of replacing cement in SCC with POFA in percentages of 0%, 30% and 60% by weight of cement, with water/binder ratios of 0.40, 0.45 and 0.50. The fresh properties of SCC were tested for filling ability, passing ability and segregation resistance. Slump-flow and Orimet flow time tests were conducted for filling ability, J-ring and L-box tests for passing ability and V-funnel at T5minute for segregation resistance. The hardened properties like compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and Ultrasonic pulse velocity were determined. Test specimens comprising of cube, cylinder and beams were prepared and tested at 1, 7 and 28 days of curing. The results and observations revealed that high volume POFA can be utilized in the development of SCC in terms of flow and strength gain. 2014-08 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48827/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48827/25/AbdulHaqEhsanMFKA2014.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:83713 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
collection	UTM Institutional Repository
language	English
topic	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General) Ehsan, Abdul Haq Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash
description	Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is a concrete which can be placed and compacted under its self-weight with little or no vibration effort, and is at the same time, cohesive enough to be handled without segregation or bleeding. SCC is used to facilitate and ensure proper filling and good structural performance of restricted areas and heavily reinforced structural members. SCC is a flowing concrete with high workability. To achieve flowing concrete low volume of coarse aggregates is used, but the reduction in volume of coarse aggregates require high volume of paste, i.e. cement and fine aggregates, and use of super-plasticizers. Increased volume of cement and addition of super-plasticizer leads to higher cost. The cost of cement can be reduced by using supplementary cementitious materials. One of the potential recycle materials from palm oil industry is palm oil fuel ash (POFA). Palm oil is extracted from the fruit and copra of the palm oil tree. Self-Compacting concrete using POFA has been one of the researching focuses in Malaysia. This study outlines laboratory tests conducted for fresh and hardened properties of SCC incorporating POFA. This study determines the feasibility of replacing cement in SCC with POFA in percentages of 0%, 30% and 60% by weight of cement, with water/binder ratios of 0.40, 0.45 and 0.50. The fresh properties of SCC were tested for filling ability, passing ability and segregation resistance. Slump-flow and Orimet flow time tests were conducted for filling ability, J-ring and L-box tests for passing ability and V-funnel at T5minute for segregation resistance. The hardened properties like compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength and Ultrasonic pulse velocity were determined. Test specimens comprising of cube, cylinder and beams were prepared and tested at 1, 7 and 28 days of curing. The results and observations revealed that high volume POFA can be utilized in the development of SCC in terms of flow and strength gain.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Ehsan, Abdul Haq
author_facet	Ehsan, Abdul Haq
author_sort	Ehsan, Abdul Haq
title	Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash
title_short	Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash
title_full	Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash
title_fullStr	Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash
title_full_unstemmed	Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash
title_sort	properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate	2014
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48827/25/AbdulHaqEhsanMFKA2014.pdf
_version_	1747817481344385024

Properties of self-compacting concrete incorporating palm oil fuel ash

Similar Items