EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON FIBER

REINFORCED CONCRETE USING MARINE SAND AND

METAKAOLIN

A PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by

RUSHMITHA BANU.B
SUSHMITHA.S
BRIUNDADEVI.S
DEEPIKA.T
Of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING

IN

COMPUTERSCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

THENI KAMMAVAR SANGAM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

KODUVILARPATTI, THENI

Submitted to

TAMILNADU STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DOTE Campus, Chennai-600025
 STUDENT PROJECT PROPOSAL

RUSHMITHA BANU.B
SUSHMITHA.S
Name of the Student (s)
BRINDHADEVI.S
DEEPIKA.T

E-mail id purusothamance@gmail.com

Name of the Guide K.VELKUMAR

Assistant Professor
Department / Designation
Computer Science and Engineering
Theni Kammavar Sangam College of Technology
Institutional Address Kammavar Nagar,
Koduvilarpatti, Theni-625534
Phone: 04546-250496
250498
Mobile: 9500279273
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON FIBER
Project Title REINFORCED CONCRETE USING MARINE
SAND AND METAKAOLIN

Sector in which your Project

Engineering & Technology
proposal is to be Considered
Has a similar project been carried
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so furnish details of the previous
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improvements suggested in the
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CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that, RUSHMITHA BANU.B,SUSHMITHA.S,BRINDHADEVIis a

bonafide final year students of U.G. Engineering courses of our college and it is also certified
that two copies of utilization certificate and final report along with seminar paper will be sent to
the Council after completion of the project by the end of April 2018.

Signature of the Guide Signature of the HOD Signature of the Principal

 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON FIBER REINFORCED
CONCRETE USING MARINE SAND AND METAKAOLIN
1. INTRODUCTION

The boom in the construction sector is a direct result of economic growth. This fast
growth leads to severe competition for resource rights of fine aggregate from river beds. This
results in unlawful mining of river beds for river sand which in turn causes environmental
problems. Due to this scarcity of river sand, the contractors are mixing sea sand with river sand.
Over-exploitation of river sand to meet the demand has led to various harmful consequences
such as increase in the depth of the river bed, lowering of the water table, and salinity
interference into the rivers. Because of these environmental problems, there is a necessity to
restrict river sand mining especially at vulnerable locations. As a remedial measure, the
government imposes various restrictions on the mining of river sand with consequent increases
in prices. Not only has this inconvenienced the users directly, but also indirectly impacted on the
overall stability of the construction industry owing to related increases in construction prices
This study is a basic practical study on the compressive strength of concrete made by using sea
sand as a replacement to fine aggregate and metakaolin as a partial replacement of sea sand. In
this the fine aggregate was replaced by sea sand.

This paper generalized the result of study on Marine sand based concrete. The Land
Reclamation and Development Board (Sri Lanka) plans to popularize the use of sea sand as a
substitute to river sand. According to the experts in the global construction trade, Sea sand is
being used in the construction industry in the Asian Region and some leading European
countries. This study is to experiment the suitability to use sea sand as a substitute for river sand
as fine aggregate for concrete. The attempt has been made to find the various results by using sea
sand, metakaolin and polypropylene fiber with normal concrete of M30 grade. The objective of
this study is to develop concrete with good strength and durability will be reached. For this
purpose, the experiment is carried out on M 30 grade of concrete using marine, metakaolin (10%,
20%, 30%, 40%), 1% of polypropylene fiber to the weight of cement. Super plasticizer Conplast
SP430 was used to maintain workability with constant Water-cement ratio. Strength property was
determined such as compressive, split tensile and Chloride penetration test.
2. OBJECTIVES

 To reduce the demand of river sand by replacing it with marine sand and reduce
the cost of construction.
 To study the mechanical properties such as compressive strength, tensile strength
and flexural strength.
 To determine the chloride content of marine sand.
 To determine the durability properties of concrete with metakaolin and
polypropylene fiber and compare the result with conventional concrete.

3. METHODOLOGY

Figure 3.1 Workflow Chart

4. WORK PLAN
 36 cubes and 48 cylinders are made. 3 type conventional concrete need to be done.

1. Normal M30 concrete using river sand as fine aggregate.

2. Normal M30 concrete using sea sand as fine aggregate.
3. Normal M30 concrete using sea sand as fine aggregate with partial replacement of
metakaolin.
4.

Month Duration Work to be done

02/01/2018-
January Literature review
08/01/2018

09/01/2018-
January Material collection
18/01/2018

19/01/2018-
January Testing of material properties
28/01/2018

29/01/2018-
February Mix design
05/02/2018

06/02/2018-
February Casting of cubes and
25/02/2018

26/02/2018-
February and March Curing and testing
25/03/2018

26/03/2018-
March Casting of cylinder
30/03/2018

31/03/2018-
March and April Curing
27/04/2018

28/04/2018-
April Testing of cylinder
29/04/2018

April 30/04/2017 Result and discussion

5. BUDGET
 Cement Marine sand Metakaolin Coarse aggregate Water
Description
(kg) (kg) (kg) (kg) (liter)

Cube-36 No’s 55.5 54 18 132 40

Cylinder-48 No’s 115 116 38 268 60
Total Quantity 171 170 56 400 100

5.1 MATERIALS COST

Quantity Rate
S.NO Description
(kg) (Rupees)
1 Cement 171 1,800
2 Coarse aggregate 400 1,500
3 White metakaolin 56 1,000
4 Polypropylene 2.1 5,00

5 CPT(chloride penetration test) 15no’s rod 15 3,000

Total 7,800

5.2 TESTING RATE

Compression, Tensile Test

39 No’s Cube & cylinder = Rs. 4,500

Chloride Penetration Test

15 No’s of cylinder = Rs. 4,000

Other requirements = Rs. 1,000

Grand Total Rs. 17,300