A REVIEW PAPER ON DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETE USING QUARRY DUST AS FINE AGGREGATE

The globe nowadays is widely using high strength and high-performance concretes. Use high strength concrete in contemporary buildings has culminated in both technological and socioeconomic benefits in advanced nations. For high-strength concrete, the water-cement ratio must be reduced and, for general, the cement content increased. Different types of 'pozzolanic mineral admixtures and super plasticizer' are used to achieve the necessary durability to resolve the low workability problems. At almost the same moment, the shortage of concrete components and its prices are rising year by year, requiring the advancement of the use of substitutes of appropriate recyclable materials. Specially because of many social, environmental, economic and expenditure difficulties, substitutes of traditional sand in the concrete are given paramount importance. This work focuses on the advancement of quarry dust concrete and the total substitution of traditional sand with quarry dust, and the study will be conducted in consecutive steps with a systemic methodology. Using ACI, BS and IS methods a conventional concrete mix design of M30 grade was produced and the experimental study recommended an ideal mix on basis of 7-day strength. The designed mixture was intended to replace sand with only a weight of 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% with quarry dust. Beton with these six blend ratios has been prepared and no plastifier is being used for the sake of proprietary truth. Workability studies have been carried out, and specific measurements with strength and water absorption properties have been cast, treated and checked. Regardless of the proportion of replacement of sand with quarry mud, when we find marginal improvements in intensity tests, for further research, a total 100% substitution of sand by quarry dust was considered.