A study on self-compacting concrete

- Concrete is a mixture of cement, sand, gravel and water which dries hard and strong and is used as a material for building. Concrete has to be heavily vibrated for flow into very intricate forms or forms that have a lot of reinforcing bars. Hence to overcome these defects the self-compacting concrete is used. Self-compacting concrete is a flowing concrete mixture that is able to consolidate under its own weight. The self-compacting concrete flows easily at suitable speed into formwork without blocking through the reinforcement without being heavily vibrated. This project deals with the self- compacting concrete where the cement is partially replaced with fly-ash and silica fume. Here Ordinary Portland Cement is replaced with 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% of fly-ash and 2.5%, 5%, 7.5%, 10% and 12.5% of silica fume. From the experimental investigations, it is observed that there is increase in the fresh properties (workability) and increase in the hardened properties (split-tensile strength and compressive strength) for replacement of silica fume. Similarly, there is increase in the fresh properties (workability) and decrease in the hardened properties (split-tensile strength and compressive strength) for replacement of fly ash. understanding of the problems of autogenous and plastic shrinkage in SCC, and Development of site quality control parameters such as in „all-in-one‟, acceptable