AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON STRENGTH PROPERTIES OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT WEIGHT AGGREGATE CONCRETE MADE FROM AGRICULTURAL BY PRODUCT SUCH AS WOOD ASH

Structural lightweight aggregate concrete is an important and versatile material, which offers a range of technical, economic and environmental-enhancing and preserving advantages and is designed to become a dominant material in the new millennium. By the development of economy and increasing production of consumer goods the amount of waste materials is increasing. There exists a serious need for recovery and reuse of industrial and agricultural wastes. Annually different types of wastes are being generated in large quantities from the industries. One of them is wood ash. In this investigation an attempt to convert wood as hinto aggregates which can be used as replacements for natural aggregates has been done. The reason for this approach is due to the demand for artificial light weight aggregates while the natural aggregate resource is depleting.