Experimental and prediction of durability properties of high performance concrete using industrial by products

Abstract

A High performance concrete is something which demands much higher performance from concrete as compared to performance expected from routing concrete. Use of chemical admixtures reduces the water content, thereby reducing the porosity within the hydrated cement paste. Mineral admixtures also called as cement replacement material (CRM) such as fly ash, rice husk ash, Metakaolin, silica fume and additives such as metallic and non-metallic fibres are more commonly used in the development of High performance mixes, act as pozzolanic materials as well as fine fillers, thereby the microstructure of hardened cement matrix becomes denser and stronger. In this study, to replace the constituent materials by mineral admixtures, chemical admixtures and additives also, it is proposed to use high performance concrete. Also High Performance concrete specimens with fiber and without fiber in size 150mmx150mmx150mm, cylinder of 150mmx300mm and prism of 100mmx100mmx500mm were cast and the strength tests were observed. Finally mechanical properties of concrete were carried out by ANN modeling.