AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF HVGGBFS CONCRETE CURED WITH DIFFERENT CURING TECHNIQUES

Improvement in construction and chemical industry have covered an approach for development of new curing techniques. Significant amount of research has been conducted to evaluate curing effectiveness and its effect on various concrete properties. This paper synthesizes outcome from experimental investigation carried out as per IS: 10262-2009 standards to evaluate the compressive strength of high volume ground granulated blast furnace slab (HVGGBFS) concrete made by replacing cement by 0%, 50% and 60% GGBFS at various curing techniques. The curing techniques adopted for the present experimental work are water curing, steam curing, steam curing with high pressure, compound curing, lime water curing and curing by super absorbent polymers (SAP). Finally comparing the results of compressive strength of different curing techniques. An effort has been made here to understand the compressive strength property of HVGGBFS concrete for different curing methods adopted and are compared with conventional water curing method. Results indicates that, HVGGBFS concrete cured by using lime water curing technique gives more compressive strength compared to conventional water curing technique.