AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE BY USING SUGARCANE BAGASSE ASH

Increasing demand and consumption of cement investigators, researchers and scientist made in examination of alternate binders that are biodegradable and contribute towards waste management. The construction industry is the foremost consumer of natural resources which led to exhaustion of good quality natural sand (fine aggregate). This situation constrains us to explore alternative materials for cement and fine aggregate. Sugarcane bagasse ash is a left-over industrial byproduct which is used as a replacement of both natural sand and cement. The use of industrial and unindustrialized(agricultural) waste produced by industrial processes has been the attention on waste reduction. Juice is dig out(extracted) from sugar cane then ash is produced by burning. This research scrutinizes the possibility of using sugarcane bagasse ash as partial replacement of specific ingredients in concrete. In this paper SCBA has been chemically and substantially categorized and partially replaced fine aggregate in the ratio of 0%, 10%, 20%, 30% and 40% and 10% by the weight of cement in concrete. The mix proportion for M25 grade concrete was derived. Our study gave an effective result for the replacement. We could get a satisfactory concrete with SCBA content of 10% and 30% replacement for cement and fine aggregate respectively