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CONSTRUCTION SITE
Aggregate most of which pass through 4.75 mm IS sieve is known as fine
aggregate. Fine aggregate shall consists of natural sand, crushed stone
sand, crushed gravel sand stone dust or arable dust, fly ash and broken
brick (burnt clay). It shall be hard, durable, chemically inert, clean and
free from adherent coatings, organic matter etc. and shall not contain any
appreciable amount of clay balls or pellets and harmful impurities e.g.
iron pyrites, alkalies, salts, coal, mica, shale or similar laminated
materials in such form or in such quantities as to cause corrosion of metal
or affect adversely the strength, the durability or the appearance of
mortar, plaster or concrete.
The sum of the percentages of all deleterious material shall not exceed
5%. Fine aggregate must be checked for organic impurities such as
decayed vegetation humps, coal dust etc.
Following are the tests for sand:
1. Organic impurities test this test is conducted at the field, for every 20
cum or part thereof.
2. Silt content test this is also a field test and to be conducted for every
20 cum.
3. Particle size distribution this test can be conducted at site or in
laboratory for every 40 cum of sand.
4. Bulking of sand this test is conducted at site for every 20 cum of
sand. Based on bulking of sand, suitable water cement ratio is calculated
for concrete at site.
10mm
4.75mm
2.36mm
1.18 mm
600 micron
300 microns
150 microns
Grading Zone
I
100
90 100
60 95
30 70
15 34
5 20
0 10
Grading Zone
IV
100
90 100
95 100
90 100
80 100
15 50
0 15
4. Bulking of sand: