Study the Strength of Concrete Made using Brick Kiln Dust as Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregate

Concrete is versatile and commonly used material in construction and composed of cement, fine aggregate, coarse aggregate and water. To fulfil the necessity of fast growing population and enhance the life style of society construction work fast forwarded around the globe. Because of which the real imbalance of natural resources is at peak. Therefore, in order to control the imbalance, human has started to use alternative sources of material in construction industries. In this sequence, there are plans to utilize the waste materials, by-products obtained from different industries and construction and demolition waste in construction field. Brick kiln dust may be one of them which are obtained from brick kiln. In present investigation an experimental programme was carried out to study the suitability and potential use of brick kiln dust as a partial replacement of fine aggregate in concrete. To achieve this specimen were casted for different replacement level at an interval of 5 percent to determine workability, compressive strength and splitting tensile strength of concrete at different level of fine aggregate with brick kiln dust. Results show that optimum replacement with brick kiln dust is 15 percent based on compressive and splitting tensile strength.