FLEXURAL STRENGT, WORKABILITY, COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AND SPLIT TENSILE STRENGTH ASSESSMENTS OF LIME STONE AGGREGATE CONCRETE

Concrete is an artificial material in which the aggregates both fine and coarse are bonded together by the cement when mixed with water. The concrete has become so popular and i ndispensable because of its inherent in concrete brought a revolution in applications of concrete. Concrete has unlimited opportunities for innovative applications, design and construction techniques. Its great versatility and relative economy in filling w ide range of needs has made it very competitive building material . At present there is depletion for both fine and coarse aggregates. The too much usage of good qualities of materials for concrete works is scares for future generation. Hence there is a sea rch for other second grade and novel material to produce desired strength concrete. In this connection an attempt has been made, the use of lime stone aggregate (replacing of granite aggregate by lime stone aggregate in proportion of 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 %) for concrete works. Here an attempt made to use of lime stone aggregate in concrete to evaluate the workability, compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexure strengths