EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON

LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE

USING VERMICULITE 1
GUIDED BY, SUBMITTED BY,
Mrs.ANUJA N ARYA A S (CEM18CE008)
Asst. Prof. CE Dept. LEKSHMI M NAIR (CEM18CE019)
POOJA KRISHNA M (CEM18CE024)
SOORYA A K (CEM18CE028)
CONTENTS 2
 OBJECTIVES
 SCOPE
 LITERATURE REVIEW
 MATERIALS
 TEST
 METHODOLOGY
 WORK PLAN
OBJECTIVES 3
 To reduce the cost of construction
 Maintain same quality as like fine aggregate in cement concrete
 To meet the scarcity of natural fine aggregate in future
 To determine the optimum level natural fine aggregate by
vermiculite in concrete
 To determine the behaviour of concrete using vermiculite
SCOPE 4
 To know the effect on workability, strength properties of lightweight
concrete

 To find out the optimum percentage of natural sand replacement

 To compare the variations of compressive strength

 The effect of vermiculite minerals of light weight concrete can be

analysed
LITERATURE REVIEW
AUTHOR TITLE YEAR OVERVIEW
5
Dr.M.John Robert Study on Strength Properties of 2020 Exfoliated vermiculite is used as a partial replacement
Prince, Light Weight Concrete with material for fine aggregate. Vermiculite is lightweight
Ananthapadmana Exfoliated Vermiculite material with high imperviousness to fire, cracking,
bhan and shrinkage can be used along with fine aggregate.
Nandhini.R, A Review of Lightweight 2018 It is evident from literature review that in the recent
Vallabhy.S Concrete using Vermiculite decades the thrust for finding an alternative to the
costly steel reinforcement is increasing, several
alternatives have been tested across the globe.
S Syed Abdul An Experimental Investigation on 2016 In this study,structural light weight aggregate concrete
Rahman, Light Weight Cement Concrete was designed with the use of natural vermiculite
Gijo K Babu using Vermiculite Mineral aggregate that will provide an advantage of reducing
dead weight of structure and to obtain a more
economical structural light weight concrete by the use
of vermiculite power as a partial replacement of sand.
Praveen Kumar Experimental study on 2015 Exfoliated vermiculite is studied, it is used as a filler
E, Manojjkumar Vermiculite Insulated Samples material because of its low bulk density, high
 MATERIALS 6
 Cement – 53 grade
 Coarse aggregate
 Vermiculite
 Water
Fig.1 Cement Fig.2 Coarse Aggregate

Fig.3 Water Fig.4 Vermiculite

 TESTS 7
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH TEST
 Compressive strength is the capacity of a material or
structure to withstand axially directed pushing forces
 Used to determine the compressive strength of concrete
 By this load bearing capacity and failure limit can be
determined Fig.5 Compression Testing Machine
METHODOLOGY 8
WORK PLAN 9
DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY
PLANNING OF PROJECT
COLLECTION OF DATA
REPORT PREPARATION
AVAILABILITY OF MATERIALS
PRELIMINARY WORK STARTS
TESTING OF FIRST SPECIMEN
CASTING PROCESS CONTINUE
TESTING CONTINUE
FINISHING OF TEST
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
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