EVALUATION OF GGBS AS ONE OF THE POTENTIAL REPLACEMENTS TO THE CEMENT IN THE CONCRETE- A EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

India is the 2nd largest country after china in the production of the cement. The cement is most essential component in the concrete as it is the component, which keeps the materials bind together. Cement is classified in to many different types depending upon the environment in which they are used for example sulphate resisting cement, rapid hardening cement etc., The growth in quality and the strength of the cement is seen clearly with upgrading technology but it is unavoidable fact that the cement emits 8% of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as per statics provided by the Tank Chatham House. If this keeps continuing it increases the rate of the global warming. By keeping the risk of usage of cement in the concrete in mind, the present research work is done as a small step to reduce the use of cement in the concrete. In the present research work the GGBS is partially replaced with the cement in the concrete by 0%, 10%, 20%, 30% and the durability properties are tested on the 7, 14, 28, 56, 90 days.