Građevinar, Vol. 77 No. 01., 2025.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.14256/JCE.3830.2023
Flexural behavior of sustainable high volume fly ash in (HVFA) reinforced concrete beam
Ram Ganesh Natarajan
Senthilkumar Shanmugamoorthy
Senthilkumar Veerasamy
Amirtharaj John
Abstract
Utilizing a high volume of fly ash as a replacement to cement in concrete is not widely practiced because of less strength gain in the earlier days. The fly ash at a replacement rate of 50 % was used in the C25/30 grade concrete to develop the sustainable HVFA concrete. The addition of 50 % of fly ash in the concrete reduces the heat increase and embodied energy with enhanced mechanical properties and structural behavior. The load carrying capacity of the beam was increased by 57 % at 7 days, along with 53 % reduction in ultimate deflection with the addition of only 2.5 % of accelerator.
Keywords
fly ash; sustainable concrete; high early strength; reduced CO2 emission; flexural behavior
Hrčak ID:
329022
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Publication date:
18.2.2025.
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