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Volume-6, Issue-4, July-August 2016

International Journal of Engineering and Management Research
Page Number: 361-363

A Brief Review on High Performance Concrete

Banudasan.K1, Sasikala.S2, Mariasusai.M3, Indiragandhi.T4, Dharmalingam.T5, Kandasamy.S6, Kamalnath.M7
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
PG Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, PRIST university, Thanjavur, INDIA

ABSTRACT concrete cured at 65% RH was influenced more than that

High performance concrete is a concrete in which of Portland cement concrete. Similarly when compared
certain characteristics are developed for a particular between two silica fume concrete cured at two different
application and environment. In other words, concrete which RH, it was found that silica fume concrete cured at
provides increased durability under severe climatic 65%RH was 13% lower than that of 100% RH. Therefore
conditions, along with other enhanced mechanical properties
are high performance concrete. HPC’s contains combinations
it was concluded that the water-cementitious ratios was
of materials such as fly ash, silica fume, ground granulated more sensitive to dry curing conditions. Hence silica fume
slags etc individually or in various combinations. Use of HPC concrete ratio was replaced for dry curing condition.
is increasing due to its availability, greater performance,
durability and efficient use of Portland cement, which II. LITERATURE REVIEW
conserves natural resources and energy. This paper analyses
the compressive strength and durability of the high B.H BHARATKUMAR, etal., concluded that
performance concrete. It is experimented using various
HPC, which needs special requirements cannot be
mineral mixtures and tested under different curing
conditions. achieved by using conventional methods without judicial
use of water content and cement mixtures.
Keyword--- HPC, Slag, Flyash, Silica Fume EVA VEJMELKOVA, etal., studied that lower
amount of blast furnace slag is the replacement for
Portland cement. It is more environmental friendly but
valuable alternative binder. Effective use of 40%-60% of
I. INTRODUCTION
GGBFS gives a positive effect on the durability of the
HPC.
Performance of concrete plays a vital role in
IBRAHIM TURKMEN, studied the mineral
construction industry. High performance concrete are used
admixture microstructure, porosity and the capillarity of
in marine structures and for all important works.The aim
the concrete. The strength development and the durability
of this study is to analyze compressive strength and
of the concretes with silica fume and blast furnace slag are
durability of the high performance concrete.
reported to be dependent on the curing and the curing
C.D ATIS, etal., studied the compressive strength
conditions. To improve the physical and mechanical
of silica fume concrete under different curing conditions
properties of concrete, SF and BFS were used at different
such as dry and wet conditions. In this experiment,
ratios instead of normal Portland cement. Dry unit weight,
Portland cement concrete and silica fume concrete were
compressive strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity,
produced using four different water- cement ratios, three
capillarity coefficient and appearing porosity of the
different cement ratios and three different silica fume
specimens were determined. Each specimen was cured at
ratios. A hyperplastizicer was used to provide a constant
different periods varying from 28, 75, 150, and 400 before
workability. Three cubic samples produced from fresh
exposure to the experiment. Finally it was observed that
concrete were demoulded after a day, they were cured at
the specimens with SF 10% + BFS20% and 0.35 water
20+2 C with 65% relative humidity (RH). Three other
binder ratios had the highest compressive strength and
samples were taken at 20+ 2C with 100% RH and they
UPV and lowest capillarity coefficient and the appearing
were used for compressive strength measurement after
porosity. Therefore it can be concluded that the mineral
28days. The comparison was made between the
admixture improved the compressive strength, UPV,
compressive strength of silica fume concrete and control
capillarity coefficient, and appearing porosity.
Portland cement concrete. It was found that silica fume
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T.Y. LO, etal., studied the compressive strength
and carbonation depth of the lightweight concrete which
uses pulverized fuel ash and silica fume as replacement for
cement under high temperature curing. The replacement
ratios of PFA and SF are 25, 40, 55% and 5, 10, and 15
respectively. It was found that mixes that had 25% PFA
and 5-10 % SF when cured at an accelerated temperature,
the effect of the compressive strength was high whereas
the strength was lower at normal temperature. Similarly,
with the above ratios of PFA and SF the carbonation is
marginal, whereas with an increased level of the ratios, the
carbonation depth increases. The carbonation depth of all
concrete mixes increases when cured at an accelerated
temperature.
MOHD SHARIQ, etal., studied the compressive
strength properties of the concrete when GGBFS is used
especially in cubes and cylinders. Uniaxial compressive
strength test has been conducted on the concrete
specimens, with and without GGBFS at the ages of 3, 7,
28, 56, 90, 150, and 180 days. It was found that concrete
cubes at the age of 56 days with 40% replacement of
cement is said to have higher compressive strength than
20% and 60% based concrete. Similarly for cylinder 40%
replacement of GGBFS has been found to be optimum.
MUSTAFA SARIDEMIR, etal., studied the long
term effects of the GGBFS on the compressive strength of
the concrete under wet curing conditions using artificial
neural networks and fuzzy logic modals. Age of the
specimen, Portland cement, GGBFS, and output
parameters for 3, 7, 14, 28, 63, 90, 119, 180 and 365 day
compressive strength is used as experimental parameters.
Around 44 mixes and 284 experiments were conducted.
K. PAZHANI, and R. JEYARAJ studied the
durability parameters of HPC with industrial wastes.
Durability parameters such as water absorption and
chloride penetration are to be studied. Industrial waste
such as copper slag and GGBS are used. The studies
showed that water absorption using copper slag and GGBS
decreases compared to river sand. Chloride ion
penetrability decreases with 30% replacement of GGBS
and 100% replacement with copper slag.
A.A RAMEZANIANPOUR and V.M
MALHOTRA reported an investigation in which the
performance of silica fume, fly ash and slag concretes
under four different curing conditions. They are moist
curing, curing at room temperature after demoulding,
curing at room temperature after two days of moist curing
and curing at 38c and 65% RH. The result shows that use
of slag, fly ash and silica fume increases the resistance to
chloride ion penetrability and produces concretes with low
permeability.
M.J. SHANNAG and HUSSEIN A. SHAIA
reports on the HPC concrete mixes containing various
proportions of natural pozzolan and silica fume by 15%
were prepared and stored in sodium and magnesium
sulphate solution in Dead Sea and red sea. The result
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showed that the concrete specimens showed high
resistance against sulphate attack in solutions and sea
waters.
SHI HUI-SHENG, etal., studied the compressive
strength, gas permeability, and carbonation of the HPC
under various w/b ratios, using fly ash and GGBFS. In
general both could not benefit with higher w/b ratio.
ULKU SULTAN ILMAZ and HAKAN
TURKEN studied the use of curing materials during
concrete production. This study shows that favourable
results can be obtained for concrete produced with
chemical admixtures when it is cured with the most
appropriate curing material.
VENU MALAGAVELLI and P.N. RAO studied
the performance of HPC with the replacement of cement
with GGBS and sand with ROBO sand. The cubes and
cylinders were tested for their compressive and tensile
strength. Finally it is found that by the partial replacement
of cement with GGBS and sand with ROBO sand
substantially increases the compressive and tensile strength
of the concretes compared to normal mix concrete.
H.Y. WANG studies the effect of elevated
temperature to concrete property. This paper investigates
the effect of GGBFS on the concrete property at elevated
temperature. The test specimens were cured for 28 days at
7 different elevated temperatures of upto 10500c.
III. CONCLUSION
From the past detailed studies, it can be inferred
that Addition of mineral admixture improved the
performance of concrete. Mineral admixture such as fly
ash, GGBFS, Rice husk ash improved the compression
strength and durability properties such as acid attack. HPC
Can be widely used for offshore construction, nuclear plant
construction and other important structural members
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