STUDY OF STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR ON POZZOLANIC MATERIAL (RICE HUSK)

Concrete is a widely used construction material for various types of structures due to its structural stability and strength. Indian construction industry is today consuming about 400 million tones of concrete every year and it is expected that this may reach a billion tones in less than a decade?. All the materials required producing such huge quantities of concrete come from the earth’s crust. Thus it deflects its resources every year creating ecological strains. On the other hand human activities on earth produce solid wastes in considerable quantities of over 2500 million tones per year, including industrial wastes, agricultural wastes and wastes from rural and urban societies. Among the solid wastes, the most prominent materials are fly ash, blast furnace slag, rice husk (converted into ash), silica fume and material from construction demolition.