Water Penetration Test on Basaltcrete with Partial Replacement of M-Sand

摘要

An Increased growth in construction industry needs continuous supply of materials, especially concrete. Natural aggregate is essential in making concrete. The current resource which is widely used in river sand but due to increase of mining, there exists threats to environment. To overcome this, there exists a constant search for an alternative. The main alternative that has been identified is m-sand. the reasons to look for these are mainly they are easily available, transportation cost is cheaper, they blend well in any grade of concrete generally concrete is not strong on tension but when basalt fibre is added it overcomes this limitations. The present research work is to find out water penetration capacity of concrete with a combination M-sand and Basalt fibre. M-sand is replaced with river sand by 50% and 60% and basalt fibre is added at 0.1%, 0.3% by volume fraction of concrete. Conplast SP430 is used to enhance the workability of the concrete. The experimental results below reveal that the impact of fibre in concrete.