Author:
Dwarampudi Manasa,Venkateshwari B.
Abstract
AbstractAlthough its usage in civil engineering is due to aspects like cost-effectiveness and design flexibility, which have made light-weight concrete (LWC) increasingly popular in recent decades, its development brought a revolution in civil engineering. Numerous studies have been conducted in this field to examine the structural performance in various scenarios. The goal of the current review is to provide a thorough analysis of lightweight concrete. The main reason for the variance in concrete strength is the use of lightweight aggregates, which include multiple types of lightweight aggregates that can be natural or artificial. Thus, this review paper was put together to give an idea of lightweight concrete by using different aggregates like. There are many light-weight aggregate types, such as expanded clay aggregate, pumice, coconut shell, cenosphere, ceramsite sand, cenomite aggregate, vermiculite, crushed clay bricks, and palm kernel shells, as well as their effects on the properties of LWC. This paper includes the production process of LWC and its characteristics, including, density, compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength, workability and durability.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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