Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology
Volume 6, Issue 1 (2016)
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Table of contents
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Analytical Determination of Strength of Demolished Recycled Coarse Aggregate
Abstract: Construction work has increased rapidly from the past two decades. With these construction activities going up, we find lacking of the construction materials, particularly aggregates. So, finding an alternate resource and their feasibility; study is the need of our project. Recycled or used aggregate proves to be a good alternative here. Therefore, the investigation was carried out using compressive strength test, confined to the objective we have tested and empirically …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 1–7 Read article
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Utilization of Rice Husk Ash and Fly Ash in Construction Industry
Abstract: This experimental work is an effort to try to develop the awareness and importance of waste management and its utilization in productive manner among the people. In today’s more environmentally conscious world, a more responsible approach to the environment is to increase the use of by-products of one which is disposed off as waste as raw material for construction industry. Substitution of OPC cement by rice husk ash and fly …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 13–28 Read article
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Damage Assessment in Reinforced Concrete Structures
Abstract: Reinforced concrete structures are subjected to a pattern of loading in addition to deterioration with age during their service life, which lead to damage of the structure. Damage assessment is an integral part of structural health monitoring (SHM) which aims to detect, locate and quantify the damage as well as predict the remaining service ability of the structure. Damage assessment technique can be classified into either global or local methods. …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 29–35 Read article
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Economical Analysis of Lime and Fly Ash Stabilized Flexible Pavements
Abstract: India is experiencing tremendous growth in infrastructure including road network and highways. Roads are to be designed with good reliability to fulfill the long-term performance during the design period. Most of the time flexible pavements in India need to be constructed on problematic subgrade soil. Such subgrades have low California bearing ratio which leads to more pavement thickness. Decrease in availability of suitable sub-base and base course materials for highway …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 36–44 Read article
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Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Manufactured Sand in Concrete
Abstract: Concrete is the most widely used construction material owing to its versatile nature. Three fourth of the concrete is made of aggregates, amongst which fine aggregate has massive demand. River sand is the predominantly used fine aggregate, which is under significance because of the increased demand and less availability. The continuous mining of river sand has also affected the environment; ecologically and economically. Manufactured sand offers viable alternative to natural …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 45–52 Read article
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Pond Ash: A Sustainable Building Material for Smart Cities
Abstract: Energy is the backbone of modern civilization of our country and thermal power plant is a major source of energy, in the form of electricity. Fly ash and pond ash are two by products of thermal power plant being produced at an alarming rate. Efforts are required to safely dispose it and if possible find better ways of utilizing it. Fly ash possesses pozzolanic character and it is being utilized …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 53–59 Read article
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A Comparative Study of Fly Ash Bricks Made with Blend of Clay Brick Waste and Stone Dust
Abstract: The growing environmental concerns and proper disposal of brick waste is a challenge for construction industry. Many research articles support the use of brick waste in construction materials as aggregates. Production of bricks using waste brick aggregate has environmental benefits by lowering the disposal problem and at the same time saving conventional resources. The present work focuses on the utilization of brick waste as a partial replacement of conventional aggregates …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 60–67 Read article
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Feasibility Studies on Cement Mortar Replaced with Ceramic Tile Waste as Secondary Binder
Abstract: This paper presents the results of experimental works focused on replacement of ceramic waste materials with cement in the production of cement mortar. The aim of this research work is to find the optimum percentage replacement of cement by ceramic tile waste in percentage replacement (5 to 25, 50 and 100%) mortar mixes. The ceramic waste tiles are mechanically crushed down ultrafine ceramic waste (UCW) powder passing 600 μ and …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 68–75 Read article
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Feasibility Study of Reetha Powder (Sapindus trifoliatus) as a Plasticizer Admixture in Concrete
Abstract: With on-going research and development activities in the field of concrete admixtures, emphasis is laid on use of naturally available organic material to enhance properties of concrete. Reetha (Sapindus trifoliatus), is popularly used in ayurvedic medicines such as shampoo and other products because of its excellent foaming and cleansing properties. This study emphasizes on the effect of natural admixtures such as reetha powder concrete (RPC) in comparison with super plasticizers …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 76–86 Read article
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Experimental Investigation of Mortar Using Stone Crusher Dust, Fly Ash and Rice Husk Ash
Abstract: Enormous development of infrastructure raised the issue of sustainability as the large quantities concreting require the huge amounts of constituting materials, the aggregate and cement. Research to explore new alternatives and investigate uses of available industrial and other waste material is very important. In this work two ingredients of concrete fine aggregates and cement are partially replaced by waste materials and the strength property of mortar is investigated. Test results …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2016 · pp. 8–12 Read article