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Effect of waste foundry sand (WFS) as partial replacement of sand on the strength,
ultrasonic pulse velocity and permeability of concrete
Gurpreet Singh a,⇑, Rafat Siddique b
a
Civil Engineering Department, RIMT (IET), Mandigobindgarh, Punjab, India
b
Civil Engineering Department, Thapar University, Patiala 147004, India
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history: Ferrous and non ferrous metal casting industries produce several millions tons of byproduct in the world.
Received 7 March 2011 In India, approximately 2 million tons of waste foundry sand is produced yearly. WFS is major byproduct
Received in revised form 3 June 2011 of metal casting industry and successfully used as a land filling material for many years. But use of waste
Accepted 18 June 2011
foundry sand (WFS) for land filling is becoming a problem due to rapid increase in disposal cost. In an
Available online 16 July 2011
effort to use the WFS in large volume, research has being carried out for its possible large scale utilization
in making concrete as partial replacement of fine aggregate.
Keywords:
This experimental investigation was performed to evaluate the strength and durability properties of
Concrete
Waste foundry sand
concrete mixtures, in which natural sand was partial replaced with (WFS). Natural sand was replaced
Strength properties with five percentage (0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%) of WFS by weight. A total of five concrete mix propor-
Ultrasonic pulse velocity tions (M-1, M-2, M-3, M-4 and M-5) with and without WFS were developed. Compression test and split-
Permeability ting tensile strength test were carried out to evaluate the strength properties of concrete at the age of 7,
28 and 91 days. Modulus of elasticity and ultrasonic pulse velocity test were conducted at the age of 28
and 91 days. In case of durability property, Rapid Chloride Permeability test was performed on all five
mix proportion at the age of 28 and 91 days. Test result indicate a marginal increase in strength and dura-
bility properties of plain concrete by inclusion of WFS as a partial replacement of fine aggregate.
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Green sand is not green in colour, but green in the sense that it is with the other two types (blended and spent) at a low sand
used in a wet stage (akin to green wood). replacement level of 25%.
Chemically bonded sand is used in both core making and mould Naik at el. [10] studied the effect of class F fly ash, coal combus-
making. In core making high strength is necessary to withstand tion bottom ash and waste foundry sand on cast concrete product
against high temperature. Chemically bonded sand is mixing of sil- (brick, block and paving stone). Replacement level by mass for sand
ica sand and chemical binder (1–3%) for mould and core. When was 25% and 35%. Replacement level by mass, for Portland cement
binder mixes with the silica sand, then catalyst start the reaction with fly ash was 25% and 35% for brick and block. For paving stone
that cures the chemical resin and hardens the sand core or mould. it was 15% and 25%. They investigated that (a) partial replacement
There are various chemical binder system used in foundry indus- of cement with FA consistently improved the strength and durabil-
try, some of the binder are furfuryl alcohol, phenolic urethane, phe- ity of concrete masonry units; (b) Block (25% FA and UFS) could be
nolic no bake-acid, phenolic resole-ester, sodium silicate, used for building exterior walls and (35% FA and UFS) could be
phosphate, alkyd (oil) urethane, shell liquid/powered and flake res- used for building interior wall in cold region; (c) In warm region
ins. Some of the most common chemically bonded sands are resins block and paving stone (contain 25%, 35% FA and UFS) could be
coated sand, hot box, cold box and Co2 sand. Majority of binder used for building both interior and exterior wall and (d) up to
used in the foundry are self setting chemical binder. The following 35% of sand in brick and block could be replaced with either BA
sand binder or binder system in their sand mould process are So- or UFS for use where forest action is not a concern.
dium silicate, phenolic urethanes, phenolic esters, phenolic hot Naik at el. [11] investigated the use of high volume fly ash, bot-
box, phenolic nobake, furan nobake, furan warm box, sulphur diox- tom ash and waste foundry sand in manufacturing of precast
ide, alkyd urethane and alkyd oil based core oil and epoxy So2. Col- moulded concrete product such as wet cast concrete brick and pav-
our of the chemically bonded sand is light than clay bonded sand. ing stone. ASTM class F fly ash was used as a partial replacement
for 0%, 25% and 35% of Portland cement. Bottom ash combined with
WFS replaced with 0%, 50% and 70% of natural sand. Test for com-
2. Literature review pressive strength, freezing and thawing resistance drying shrink-
age and abrasion resistance were conducted on wet cast concrete
Several researchers investigated the use of WFS in various civil product. The result of this investigation showed that. (a) Difference
applications. Javed and Lovell [1], Traeger [2], Kleven et al. [3], in strength between control mix and mixtures incorporating by
MOEE [4], AFS [5], Abichou et al. [6] Mast and Fox [7], Kirk [8] product decreased with an increase in age; (b) Wet cast brick unit
and Gunney et al. [9] have reported the use of WFS in highway that meet the minimum compressive strength requirement of
applications. Nail et al. [10], Naik et al. [11], Tikalsky et al. [12] ASTM for grade N brick (24 MPa) could be produced using concrete
and Siddique et al. [13] have reported the use of WFS in controlled cylinder compressive strength as low as 14 MPa; (c) The compres-
low strength material. Dungan et al. [14], Deng and Tikalsky [15] sive strength of paving stone continued to increased with age but
have used WFS in geotechnical field application. Braham A. [16] fell short of ASTM C936 requirement (min 15 MPa) and (d) drying
has reported the use of blended recycled foundry sand in hot mix shrinkage increased with increasing amount of WFS, fly ash and
asphalt. Ham RK and Boyle [17], Fero et al. [18], Engroff et al. bottom ash in concrete mixture however all brick met the drying
[19], Siddique et al. [20] and Dungan et al. [21] have reported on shrinkage requirement of ASTM C55 (max 0.065%).
leachate characteristic of used foundry sand. Seung-Whee and Siddique et al. [33] compressive strength, splitting tensile
Woo-Keun [22], Naga and El-Maghraby [23], Pereiraa et al. [24] strength and MOE tests were carried out at the age of 28 and
and Quaranta et al. [25] have reported the use of WFS in ceramic 56 days. Replacement% of natural fine sand with WFS was 10%,
material and tile making process. El haggar and El Hatow [26] 20% and 30%. Based on test result they concluded that (a) compres-
investigate the use of foundry sand with un-rejected plastic in sive strength increased slightly with increase in WFS at all replace-
the production of manhole cover. Periraa et al. [27] have reported ment%; (b) compressive strength increased by 4.2%, 5.2% and 9.8%
the use of WFS for making refractory mortars. Colombo et al. [28], at the age of 28 days when compared with ordinary concrete mix
Ferraris et al. [29] and Geo and Drummond [30] investigated the where as 1.0%, 5.18% and 14.3% increased at the age of 56 days;
use of WFS for the interization and reuse of waste materials by vit- (c) splitting tensile strength increased with an increase in the
rification. Santurde et al. [31] investigated the technological behav- WFS and (d) the MOE of wastet foundry sand concrete at all age
ior and recycling potential of WFS in clay brick. was higher than the ordinary concrete. They also concluded that
Not much work has been reported on the use of WFS in concrete MOE of all concrete mixtures were increased with age.
and concrete related product. Though some researchers has re- Siddique at el. [34] determined the compressive strength, split-
ported on this area, which are, ting tensile strength, flexural strength and modulus of elasticity of
Khattib and ellies [32] investigated the properties (compressive concrete containing WFS at 28, 56, 91 and 365 days. Fine aggregate
strength and shrinkage) of concrete containing foundry sand as a were replaced with waste foundry sand with 10%, 20% and 30%.
partial replacement of natural sand. Natural sand replaced by three They concluded that. (a) Compressive strength, splitting tensile
type of foundry sand white fine sand without the addition of clay strength, flexure strength and MOE of concrete mixtures increased
and coal, the foundry sand (blended) and WFS. Thirteen concrete with increase in waste foundry sand content; (b) Mechanical prop-
mixtures were made to investigate these properties. Replacement% erties of concrete mixtures increase with age for all the foundry
of natural fine sand class M with foundry sand was 0%, 25%, 50% sand content; (c) 8% to 19% compressive strength increased
and 100%. Based on the teat results they concluded that, (a) the depending upon WFS% and testing age and (d) 6.5% to 14.5% split-
concrete made with WFS and white sand showed similar strength ting tensile strength, 7% to 12% flexure strength and 5% to 12%
al all replacement%; (b) Strength of concrete was decreased due to modulus of elasticity increased with age and waste foundry sand
increasing the replacement% of foundry sand; (c) Concrete incorpo- content.
rating white sand and WFS gives more strength than concrete Etxeberria at el. [35] investigated the properties of concrete
made with blended foundry sand; (d) By increasing the replace- using metallurgical industrial by product as aggregate. They used
ment% of foundry sand length change of concrete was increased; chemical foundry sand (QFS), green foundry sand (GFS) as a partial
(e) Drying shrinkage value was lower in concrete made with white replacement of fine aggregate and blast furnace slag (BFS) as a par-
sand and higher in concrete containing WFS and (f) Expansion was tial replacement of coarse raw aggregate. Replacement% was 25%,
generally lower in concrete containing white sand as compared 50% and 100% of fine and coarse aggregate. They conducted tests
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for slump, compressive strength, tensile strength, modulus of elas- are given in Table 2. Locally available crushed coarse aggregate having maximum
size 12.5 mm was used. Passing% from 12.5 mm sieve was (90–100%). Passing from
ticity, length change, sorptivity, and high temperature exposure.
10 mm sieve was (40–80%) and passing from 4.75 mm sieve was (0–10%). Testing of
They concluded that (a) concrete made with chemically foundry coarse aggregate was done as per (BIS: 383-1970) [38]. Various results are given in
sand and green foundry sand obtained more compressive strength, Table 3.
tensile strength and modulus of elasticity than conventional con-
crete when made with high water cement ratio; (b) Concrete made
3.1.3. Waste foundry sand (WFS)
with chemically foundry sand obtained highest workability, but Waste foundry sand was obtained locally. WFS were used as a partial replace-
use of slag as coarse aggregate more than 50% reduce the workabil- ment of fine aggregate (natural river sand). Binders used were Bentonite clay and
ity of concrete; (c) Concrete produced with metallurgical industrial water. Metal poured in the foundries was gray iron. Approximately 90–95% foundry
sand is reused by local foundries. Physical properties of WFS are given in Table 2
by product suffered similar length change to that conventional
and chemical composition of WFS given in Table 4. WFS has low fineness modulus,
concrete and (d) Concrete made with waste material gave more specific gravity, and low unit weight.
compressive strength after high temperature exposure than con-
ventional concrete.
3.1.4. Super plasticizes
Guney at el. [36] Investigated the re usage of WFS in high strength Superplasticizer was polycarboxylate having relative density of 1080 g/l at
concrete. In this study the natural sand was replaced by WFS by 0%, 30 °C. It was brown in colour. Super plasticizer was used for maintain the flow
5%, 10%, and 15%. They studied the slump test, compressive strength, workability of plain concrete in form of slump.
splitting tensile strength, Water absorption, freezing thawing resis-
tance and dynamic elasticity modulus. Based on the test result they 3.2. Concrete mix proportions
concluded that (a) increase in the replacement level of standard fine
sand with WFS, decrease the compressive strength, tensile strength A control concrete mixture (M-1) was designed as per (BIS: 10262-1982) [40] to
and MOE of concrete, but similar compressive, tensile and MOE were have 28 day compressive strength of 40 MPa. Four more concrete mixtures (M-2,
M-3, M-4 and M-5) were made by replacement of fine aggregate with WFS.
obtained from the specimen with 10% WFS and control one; (b) Con- Replacement% was 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%.
crete with 5% WFS exhibited reduction in water absorption and void
ratio and (c) Reduction in compressive, tensile strength and MOE
3.3. Casting of specimen
after freezing and thawing cycle were in allowable limits of the ACI
code. They concluded that foundry sand can be successfully used For conducting the compression test and ultrasonic pulse velocity test,
in high strength concrete application if the particle size distribution 152.4 mm (6 inches) cubes were cast. 152.4 304.8 mm (6 12 inches) cylinders
is very carefully arranged. were cast to conduct the splitting tensile strength test and MOE. For investigating
the durability properties, 203.2 101.6 mm (8 4 inches) cylinders were cast.
These cylindrical specimens were cast for conducting Rapid Chloride Permeability
2.1. Research significance Test (RCPT). After casting the test specimen, all specimens were covered with plas-
tic sheet to reduce the moisture loss and cured for 24 h in air. After 24 h, all test
Use and recycling of ferrous and nonferrous metal casting specimens were taken out from the mould, and placed in tank for water curing.
industry waste is important issue in today’s world, WFS s the major All specimens were casted at room temperature.
waste of metal casting industry used as byproduct. Not much work
has been reported on the use of WFS in concrete related to strength 3.4. Concrete properties
and durability properties. So in this work, WFS was used as a par-
3.4.1. Fresh concrete properties
tial replacement of fine aggregate in concrete in order to investi-
According to Indian standard specification (BIS: 1199-1959) [41] fresh proper-
gate the effect of WFS on the strength and durability properties. ties of concrete such as slump, temperature, and air content were determined. Re-
sults are given in Table 5.
3. Experimental detail
Table 3 Table 5
Physical properties of coarse aggregate (BIS: Concrete mix proportions, with and without waste foundry sand (WFS) (BIS: 10262–
383–1970) [40]. 1982) [42].
Table 4
Chemical composition of waste foundry sand.
Constituent SiO2 Al2O3 TiO2 CaO MgO Fe2O3 Na2O K2O SO3 Mn3O4 SrO
Value (%) 83.8 0.81 0.22 1.42 0.86 5.39 0.87 1.14 0.21 0.047 –
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5 2
y =-0.0019x + 0.0609x + 4.2743
R2= 0.9347
4.5
y =-0.0021x2+ 0.0595x + 4.1989
4 R2 = 0.919
3.5
Table 6
Relationship between compressive strength and durability properties.
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