Experimental Investigation on Fresh and Hardened Properties of High Calcium Flyash Based Geopolymer Concrete

Abstract:

The most important cause of the climate changes in the past few decades are due to the emission of CO₂.It may be due to human or natural processes such as disposal of waste material from the thermal power plant, consuming natural resources or production of cement etc. Due to increase in infrastructure created the demand of more construction industries. Increasing importance of environmental protection and energy storage has led to the investigation of alternative binders to replace the cement. Geopolymers are an alternative binder for cement concrete production because of their superior mechanical properties. In the present investigation, for developing the Geopolymer concrete (GPC), high calcium fly ash is used as an alternative binder with Na₂SiO₃ and NaOH as alkaline liquids. Fresh and hardened properties of GPC are examined by appropriate experiments. Alkaline liquid to High calcium Fly ash ratio (AL: HCF) of 0.45, 0.55,0.6 and 0.65 are used with 8M of NaOH and the developed GPC is kept in ambient curing for 7 days, 28 days, and 56 days. It was observed that with an increase of AL to HCF ratio in the fresh GPC increased the workability of GPC. Increase of AL to HCF ratio in GPC mix increased the compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural strength up to a certain limit.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 1048)
• Pages: 412-419
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.1048.412
• Online since: January 2022
• Authors: B. Vijaya Prasad*, Arun P. Kumar, N. Anand, Paul Daniel Arumairaj, T. Dhilip, M. Sanath Kumar
• Keywords: Ambient Curing, Geopolymer Concrete, High Calcium Fly Ash, SEM, Workability

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