Paper Key : IRJ************027
Author: Avinash Bhima Dive,Gajendra . R . Gandhe
Date Published: 04 Aug 2022
Abstract
As water is becoming a scarce material day-by-day, there is an urgent need to do research work pertaining to saving of water in making concrete and in constructions. Curing of concrete is maintaining satisfactory moisture content in concrete during its early stages in order to develop the desired properties. Keeping importance to this, an attempt has been made to develop self-curing concrete by using light expanded clay aggregate (leca). In this experimental investigation the strength characteristics of normal strength concrete cast with the self-curing agent leca have been studied and compared with the corresponding conventionally cured concrete. Is method of mix design was adopted, for the normal strength internal curing concrete of grade m30 grade of concrete is design on trial and error basis. For producing internal-curing concrete replacements of 10%, 20% and 30% of leca by volume of aggregate was used and tested