Abstract: The main aim of this project is to provide the general mix design

for any grade of concrete, so that, this project contains the mix design for
M40 grade of concrete, as per IS 10262:2009. In this project, the mix shall
be designed to produce the required grade of concrete having the
designated workability, and characteristic compressive strength, which will
not be less then the appropriate values as per IS 10262:2009.by this
project, the required mix design will be obtained by changing the
corresponding values with respective areas. Then we can obtain the required
mix design for different grades of concrete.

In this project, general mix proportion is providing us the general procedure

for nay grade of concrete. In the field of construction, concrete is the main
material made up of different type of materials. The concrete is of different
grades and each grade of concrete is useful for different properties and
place. Generally these are two type of concrete,

1. By Designing 2. By Adopting

1. By designing the concrete mix, concrete is called as Design Mix

Concrete.

2. By adopting the concrete mix, concrete is called as Nominal Mix

Concrete.

From the above two type of concrete, design mix concrete procedure is
applied in this project. The mix design procedure shall be selected to ensure
the workability of fresh concrete. As per IS 456:2000, several information
should be provided for design mix concrete pg.no 22.

Design Mix Concrete

Design mix concrete is the type of concrete used in construction, to produce

the grade of concrete having the required workability and characteristic
strength nominal mix, will reduce the cement content which is used in
concrete reduce the water cement ratio also will increase the strength. In
this project, general procedure has been given for the concrete of grades
very from this procedure of M40grade of concrete the different grades such
as M40 to M40 has been obtained by changing the values as per Indian
standard 10dis. so it is much easier to design the mix ratio for grade of
concrete up to M40.

Required Data:

Characteristics compressive strength (fck) = 40 Mpa

Maximum cement3 content = 450kg/m
Degree of workability = 0.8 compacting factor
Grade of cement = OPC 53
Specific gravity of cement = 3.15
Specific gravity of sand = 2.6
Specific gravity of aggregate = 2.6
Maximum size of aggregate = 20mm

1. Target mean strength for mix design

The target mean compressive strength at 28 days is given by,
fck = fck+ts
= 40+1.65*5 (t= 1.65 and s = 5) from
IS 10262:2009
= 48.25 N/mm²

2. Selection of water cement ratio

W/c ratio = 40% from IS 456:2000 table no: 5

3. Selection of water content

Maximum water content for 20mm aggregate = 180 Kg.

4. Estimation of entrapped air

Entrapped air = 2% for 20mm aggregate (from IS 10262:1982 table3)2

5. Determination of cement content

Cement content = mass of water/ (w/c ratio)
= 180/0.4
= 450 kg/m³

6. Determination of coarse and fine aggregate:

fa = 623.63 kg/m³

= 1084.95 kg/m³

Experimental Work:
Initial test:

For the design mix concrete, it is necessary to do the initial test for all
materials which are going to be used in concrete. Like wise the result of the
initial test are equal to the appropriate values provided in the Indian
standards. So it is noted that, the materials can be used in the concrete for
design mix concrete.

Laboratory test

To check out the theoretical results as per Indian standard with the practical
results. The cubes will casted and cured and tested.

Compressive strength test

From the design mix concrete, the results are necessary to be equal, for that
the cubes of size 50mmX150mmx 150mm have been casted. The casted
cubes are to be tested for 3rd day, 7day and 28th day. The result of this will
be compared with the target mean strength of theoretical values which are
obtained.

Result
Acknowledgement:

The authors are thank full to Mr.M. Vadivel and Mr.M.Praveen Kumar
professor of Civil Engineering Department at Nehru Institute of Technology,
Coimbatore.

Conclusion

From this project it is concluded that, the comparison between the

theoretical results and laboratory test results are compared, which are
almost equal, so we concluded that the design mix concrete is better than
nominal mix concrete.

Reference

1 Concrete mix proportioning-guidelines IS 10262:2009

2 Recommended guidelines for concrete mix design IS 10262:1982
3 Plain reinforced concrete-code of practice IS 456:2000
4 SP 23 (1982): Handbook on concrete mixes [CED 2: Cement and
Concrete].
5 IS 516 (1959): Method of test for strength of concrete [CED 2: Cement
and concrete]