Author:
Musungu Khaoya Lewin,Abuodha Sylvester,Mwero John Nyiro
Abstract
The rise in demand of concrete products has led to overexploitation of river sand the main fine aggregate in concrete resulting in major environmental degradation. As a result, researchers have focused their efforts on developing eco-friendly concrete using alternative renewable materials like volcanic tuff and other natural pozzolana types. This study therefore, aims at investigating the use of Kenyan, Kitengela volcanic tuff as a partial replacement of river sand in self-compacting concrete, and determining the effects it will have on the rheological and mechanical properties of the self-compacting concrete. The study involved partially replacing river sand with volcanic tuff in percentages of 0%, 2.5%, 5%, 7.5% and 10% and carrying out rheological tests (V-funnel test, L-box test, T-500 test and J-ring test) on fresh concrete and mechanical tests (compressive strength and tensile strength tests) on hardened self-compacting concrete on days 7, 14, and 28 to determine the effects of volcanic tuff on properties of both fresh and hardened self-compacting concrete. There was a general decrease in rheological properties (flow and passing abilities) of self-compacting concrete with increase in volcanic tuff percentage replacement from 0 % to 10%, with least flow and passing abilities recorded at 10% replacement. Similarly, increase in volcanic tuff percentage replacement led to decrease in both compressive and tensile strength of self-compacting concrete with lowest values recorded at 10% volcanic tuff replacement.
Publisher
University of Diyala, College of Science
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