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  • I am an m.tech (structural) student and I am planning to do project on concrete.could you please guide me with some suggestions

    abhishek anil

    abhishek anil

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    Updated: Jul 4, 2018
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    AdministratorJul 4, 2018

    Hello Abhishek,

    It'd be really nice if you could tell us a bit more about your project so that it's easier for our fellow engineers to offer suggestions on your project?

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 4, 2018

    Recycled aggregate concrete is the project I have in mind

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 4, 2018

    There’s a whole lot of published research reports on this. Most of the properties have been evaluated. If you do a google scholar search you can see all current work. One has to come up with a new angle for an MTech level project.

    Maybe if you can work out a recycled aggregate adding recycled plastic scrap and something other than Portland cement (polymeric mud as posted elsewhere on CE) you may get an original project.

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 4, 2018

    Can you advice me on some projects

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 5, 2018

    The eco friendly cement substitute is called 'Geopolymer'. Some research work on this is going on in India also. You can get more info here:

    <a href="https://www.geopolymer.org/applications/geopolymer-cement/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Geopolymer cement and Geopolymer Concrete – Geopolymer Institute</a>

    You can do some preliminary work making a concrete using this instead of cement and recycled aggregate. The suggestion for using shredded plastic waste was given to further improve conservation.

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 5, 2018

    How about doing geopolymer concrete using recycled aggregates,is there a possibility?

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 5, 2018

    Certainly. The link in my last post above shows an Australian airport area with geo polymer concrete. But with regular aggregate I think. It may be certainly worthwhile to check out your idea for a geoploymer-recycled aggregate concrete.

    Do you have the infrastructure to create such concrete and evaluate it? Can you discuss with your guide on this?

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 5, 2018

    Yes, we have a structural lab in our college.Can u give me an idea about the replacement ratios for doing this

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 5, 2018

    I shall discuss this with my guide 

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 5, 2018

    My area is chemical engineering and materials science and not civil engineering. It may be best to try different ratios and evaluate one critical property first to zero in on a ratio. you can study that in greater detail.

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 5, 2018

    Ok sir,thank u for assisting me

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 5, 2018

    We can still discuss. Please keep posting. Such eco friendly projects are most needed now.

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 11, 2018

    An update:

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 27, 2018

    Sir, i am planning to work on super absorbent polymer concrete.kindly advise me

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 27, 2018

    What is it that you want from CEans on this?

    Some info available here:

    <a href="https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=super+absorbent+polymer+concrete&oq=super+absorbent" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Google Scholar</a>

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 30, 2018

    Sir I have decided to use SAP as infill in hollow steel columns and study their behaviours

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 30, 2018

    What is the purpose for infills in a hollow column? Are you trying to modify buckling properties or other mechanical properties?

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 30, 2018

    Yes sir I am planning on studying the strength characteristics of the column with sap as infill

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  • abhishek anil

    MemberJul 30, 2018

    Whether self curing concrete can be used in the column.That was what I had in mind sir

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  • Ramani Aswath

    MemberJul 30, 2018

    This may be of some help:

    Specification for the Design of Steel Hollow Structural Sections

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