FINAL YEAR PROJECT PROPASAL

STUDY OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRTETE

PRODUCED WITH RECYCLED AGGREGATES

Session
2012-2016

SUPERVISOR : Engr. Waseem Ullah

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REHMAT ULLAH 12-FA-46789 SUIT-12-01-102-0033
SAJJAD HAYAT 12-FA-46004 SUIT-12-01-079-0232
MUHAMMAD JAMIL 12-FA-46785 SUIT-12-01-102-0029

SARHAD UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECNOLOGY,PESHAWAR

 Title

“STUDY OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRTETE

PRODUCED WITH RECYCLED AGGREGATES”

A Project Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

the degree of

Bachelor of Technology – Civil (HONS)

Project Supervisor

Engr. Waseem Ullah

External Examiner Signature__________________

Project Thesis Supervisor Signature_____________

SARHAD UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND

TECNOLOGY,PESHAWAR
"In the name of ALLAH, most Gracious,
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Acknowledgements
 We thank Allah Almighty, the most Gracious, and the most Merciful,
who gave us the faith, spirit, hope, and ability to complete this project
successfully. The sovereign Allah gave us the courage and enthusiasm
to complete the project.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our supervisor Engr.
Waseem Ullah for the continuous support of our B-Tech Engineering
Technology study and research, for his patience, motivation,
enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. His kind guidance helped us
throughout the course of research work and writing of this thesis. We
could not have imagined having a better supervisor and mentor for our
BSc civil Engineering technology study.
We are also extremely thankful to our H.O.D Engr Sir SUBHAN for
giving us time and guidance in this project
We dedicated this work to our beloved parents for their kind patronage,
which enabled us to reach this stage and enlightened our liver at every
moment.
At last but not the least, thanks to our families for their support.

Title:
Study Of Mechanical Properties Of Concrete Produced With Recycled Aggregates
Introduction:
In the world of construction, concrete like other materials is playing an important role in
development. Concrete is a composite material composed of coarse granular material (the
aggregate or filler) embedded in a hard matrix of material (the cement or binder) that fills the
space among the aggregate particles and glues them together. The major constituents which is
natural aggregate such as gravel, sand, alternatively, artificial aggregates such manufactured sand
furnace slag, fly, ash, expanded clay, broken bricks and steel may be used where appropriate. It
possesses many advantages including low cost, general availability of raw material, adaptability,
low energy requirement and utilization under different environmental conditions
Problem Statement:
The global consumption of concrete is estimated at 12 billion tons (@
tons/capacity/year). To make this volume of concrete, 1.5 billion tons of cement, 9.3
billion tons of aggregate and 1.2 billion tons of water are necessary. The global
production of demolished concrete is estimated at 2-3 billion tons per year. In next ten
years, the global production of demolished concrete will rise to 7.5-12.5 billion tons. If it
is possible to recycle the total amount of demolished concrete, there will be no need to
produce new aggregates by destroying mountains or burning clay. The volume of
demolished concrete in Pakistan is also increasing day by day due to aging of
infrastructure as well as the replacement of low rise buildings by relatively high rise
buildings due to becoming real estate business. Therefore, an attempt was made to
determine possible ways to recycle demolished concrete for new construction as coarse
aggregates.

Scope And Significance Of The Study:

Aggregate characteristics have significant effects on concrete workability and other properties.
However, limited work has been conducted studying the effects systematically and
quantitatively. There is little published data on use of recycled aggregate as substitute to natural
aggregate. The process of forming natural aggregate deposits occurred over billions of years and
as they work exploited, they are not replenished at the rate are being used. Environmental
pressure, cost and storage in this type of deposit in developed countries necessitated the
manufacturing of concrete aggregates. In this work an attempt has been made to study the use of
recycled aggregates, its strength, its weakness and the overall effectiveness when the natural
aggregate replaced by recycled aggregate with particular proportions in constructions activities.

Methodology:
a) Literature survey of recycled aggregate, previous research of concrete based on recycled
aggregate and effects on the important properties of concrete.
b) Approximately 70 cylinders will be cast for testing compressive strength of concrete.
c) Analysis of test results and observations are drawn, all results are completed in the form
of tables and graphical representation will be established for comparison of two natural
and recycled aggregate with reference to strength and workability of concrete.

Motivation

References:

1. Building design and construction handbook by McGraw-Hill(2000).

2. Structural details in concrete by M.Y.H. Bangash.
3. www.google.com
4. www.wikipedia.org