IJSTE - International Journal of Science Technology & Engineering | Volume 2 | Issue 1 | July 2015

ISSN (online): 2349-784X

A Survey on Effects of Retempering on Delayed

Concrete
Mr. Jitendra Singh
Department of Civil Engineering
MITS Gwalior

Prof. Rajiv Kansal

Department of Civil Engineering
MITS Gwalior
Prof. Gautam Bhadoriya
Department of Civil Engineering
MITS Gwalior

Abstract
The study is concerned with collection and analysis of various previous works carried on evaluation of characteristics of
retempered concrete by different authors. Retempering of concrete done by making use of different materials (superplasticizers,
water, cement, fly ash etc) has been briefly presented in this paper with regard to the valuable results obtained after the
experiments in different years by various authors
Keywords: Strength Values, Concrete, Retempering
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I. INTRODUCTION
Casting delay of concrete is one of the common problem encountered in concrete industry.The delay in placing of concrete may
arise due to any factors like glitch in casting machinery , improper site conditions , unskilled handling practices etc which result
in loss of material and money. The concrete kept for long hours before casting experiences loss of workability and strength and
may not be fit for the desired purpose for which it was mixed.
To extricate such problems retempering of concrete is done by adding various materials depending upon suitability to make
the concrete workable and fit for use.

II. SIGNIFICANCE
Concrete industry also involves very large projects with use of heavy mass of concrete for construction. In such projects the
stiffed concrete resulting due to delay in placing or time lapse in placing can be not be tossed away and declared unfit for use so
easily as it involves high loss of economy , time and efforts. To provide a solution for this the concrete is made workable and
somewhat fit for use by the process of retempering.
It is also an established fact that use of water to make concrete workable is an unethical practice which leads to loss in strength
of concrete. So appropriate and suitable content shall be used for retempering thereby making no compromise with quality of
concrete work which accounts for high safety and durability.

III. LITERATURE REVIEW

G.R. Otoko,2014 , evaluated the abnormal loss of slump in concrete accompanied with delay.He performed the retempering
work with and without addition of admixtures and obtained the slump values at different time intervals . H concluded that
maximum compressive and tensile strength was obtained on retempering time at 60 minutes interval without the use of retarder
and more increased strength values were achieved after addition of 5% retarder.
K.Dinesh, P.Kirran and C, Srinivas , 2014,carried their work with superplastisizer on delayed concrete and brought forward
their results on the effects of time lag on characteristics of concrete and obtained values after retempering with super
plasticizer.They showed that maximum values for flexural strength and compressive strength were obtained at 0 and 2 hours in a
study which was carried for 4 hours of time lag.
H.A Mohamadien , 2013 , carried his work on cold joints which come into picture due to delay in placing concrete which may
be due to various reasons on site like technical glitch in equipments , high temperature effects etc. That was a relevant work
which presented the compressive strength values which were obtained on testing the concrete mass formed in layers. The second
layer signifies the concrete placed after some time lapse when the first layer was casted. This work showed the effect on
compressive strength of a concrete which is a combination of layers of concrete casted after retempering.
S.K Bhagate D.K Kulkarni , 2012 , developed a relationship between compressive strength , split tensile strength and fly ash
content used for retempering and obtained compressive strength values at different compositions of fly ash. Cement was replaced

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by 25% of fly ash and values were obtained by retempering the concrete containing flyash. They arrived to a conclusion that
more compressive strength and tensile strength values were obtained by adding flyash and retempering the oncrte as compared to
the mix when no fly ash was used.
Khaled Marar and Ozgur Eren , 2011 , proposed the workability and strength characteristics after retempering the concrete
without admixtures. He made the use of addition of cement to study the workability of retempered concrete. He brought forward
the results that as cement content increases , retempering leads to increase in slump and obtained a linear relationship between
slump and unit weight of concrete.
K.U. Shankar , K.A Prakash , M. Harshavardhana , 2009 , studied behavior of retempered concrete and concluded an
important finding about water absorption and sorptivity property of retempered concrete and obtained a relationship between
sorptivity and time , depending upon the depth of cube immersed in water.
J. Sobhani , M .Najimi and A.R Pourkhorshidi , 2007 , experimented the delay in concrete with three parameters viz;
superplasticizers , water and withhold water. To extricate the slump loss problem of concrete which has lost its workability due
to time lapse in placing. They tested the concrete after retempering with superplasticizer , water and withhold water and
observed that on retempering with water , the longer the time at which tempering was done , lower were the compressive
strength values achieved. They proposed that compressive strength in the decreasing order was achieved with following
parameters in sequence : withhold water > superplasticizer > water.

IV. CONCLUSION
Addition of simply water to gain the workability of a time lapsed concrete results in reduced strength values but experiments
carried with addition of cement , superplasticizers , retarders , flyash , etc have provided sufficient measures and literature
regarding the increase in slump values , compressive strength values and flexural srtrength values . Moreover different working
conditions or site conditions are the primary deciding factors in adopting a particular method to gain to some extent the required
slump and strength values in orer to make the concrete mass useful which has encountered a delay in placing due to some glitch.

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