1) Materials Used:

The integrant materials used in the research work to develop

HSSCC are:
-Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC)
-Silica-Fume
- GGBS
-Master Gluonium ACE 30 chemical admixture
- Graphite, Sodium
- nitrate (NaNo3)
- Concentrated sulfuric acid (98% H2SO4)
- Potassium
- permanganate (KMnO4)
- Hydrogen peroxide (30% H2O2)
- Hydrochloric acid (5% HCL)
- Silver nitrate
- ethanol and Distilled water

* Fabrication of Graphene Oxide (GO) in laboratory

The following is the step by step procedure for the preparation of GO using modified hummer’s method:
1. Initially, 5 g of graphite, 2 g of sodium nitrate and 30 ml of concentrated Sulphur acid was added to the
conical flask in ice bath with below 20_C and the flask with ice bath was placed on magnetic stirrer for 2
h.
2. After 2 h of continuous stirring, slowly 5 g of potassium permanganate was added to the reaction
mixture while maintaining the same temperature in the ice bath and continued stirring for another ½ hour.
Temperature should be constantly maintained, as increase in temperature results in explosion.
3. Mixture is taken out from ice bath and heated at 350C for ½ hour on magnetic stirrer with hot plate.
4. Next 100 ml of distilled water was added to the mixture and heated the mixture at 900C for 1 h.
5. Later the mixture was cooled at room temperature. After cooling, 300 ml of distilled water was added
and placed the mixture on magnetic stirrer for ½ hour.
6. After ½ hour 30 ml of hydrogen peroxide (30% H2O2) was added and placed the flask on magnetic
stirrer for ½ hour formed Graphene oxide with pH 1.
7. To regulate the PH, this solution was filtered and washed with 200 ml 30% HCL to convert metal ions
to chloride ions. Again, this is repeatedly washed using distilled water to remove chloride
contamination.
8. To check the complete removal of chloride ions, few drops of filtrate
has to be added to of silver nitrate solution and if no white
color appears then it’s clear that all the chlorides are removed.
9. Finally, it was washed with 200 ml of ethanol to get dry brown
color GO powder. Chemical composition of GO was identified
by EDS testing and the values are shown

2) Mix Proportions:

3) Tests:

4) Results and Discussion:

Compressive strength
The results of the compressive strength of HSSCC with GO on
150 mm cube specimen at the end of 7, 28, 56 and 90 days are represented
in Table 4.

Split tensile strength

The details of the split tensile strength of HSSCC with GO based
on 150 mm diameter and 300 mm height cylinder are represented
in Table 5.

Flexural strength
The details of the flexural tensile strength of HSSCC with GO
based on 100 mm _ 100 mm _ 500 mm specimens are shown in
Table 6.