EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF BAGASSE ASH AS PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT IN CONCRETE

Our project is about use of Sugarcane Bagasse Ash which is a byproduct extracted from sugarcane industry. When juice is extracted from sugar pulp, the bagasse is packed in graphite crucible air tight and placed inside electric control furnace burnt at temperature of 1200C for 5hours to obtain black ash. The composition is Siliceous Oxide and Alumina. Bagasse Ash is light material and high oxidation compound compared with cementing compounds. We have taken M30 grade concrete, for this grade we have casted cubes of size 150mm*150mm*150mm and cylinders 150mm*300mm. We have replaced cement with sugarcane bagasse ash of 2%, 4%, 6% and conducted tests for obtaining compressive strength for cubes and split tensile strength for cylinders. We obtained an optimum percentage of 2% it is that from locally available cheap materials like sugarcane bagasse ash, we obtained high workability and strength unlike cement sugarcane bagasse ash is environmental friendly too.