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- Title
MODIFIED WATER-CEMENT RATIO LAW FOR COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF RICE HUSK ASH CONCRETE.
- Authors
Abdullahi, M.; Ojelade, G. O.; Auta, S. M.
- Abstract
This work examines the modification of age long water - cement ratio law of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) concrete to cater for concrete with Rice Husk Ash (RHA). Chemical analysis of RHA produced under controlled temperature of 600°C was carried out. A total of one hundred and fifty (150) RHA concrete cubes at five different water/binder ratios and at six replacement levels of RHA (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%) were produced with specific attention given to cement/water (c/w) content and RHA/water (r/w) content. The cubes were subjected to compressive strength test at 56 days of curing producing a compressive strength in the range of 3.77 N/mm2 to 34.04N/mm2. A linear polynomial model was fitted into the experimental data using Minitab Package and was found adequate with an adjusted coefficient of determination of 73.0%.Test results show that the compressive strength of hardened RHA concrete depends on cement/water content by weight on one part and RHA/water content by weight on the other part. This indicates that the model equation is suitable to evaluate the compressive strength of RHA concrete at 95% confidence interval and the linear model has the capability of explaining the variability in the data by 73%.
- Subjects
COMPRESSIVE strength; RICE hulls; PORTLAND cement; MECHANICAL strength of condensed matter; ANALYTICAL chemistry; POZZUOLANAS
- Publication
Nigerian Journal of Technology, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 2, p373
- ISSN
0331-8443
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/njt.v36i2.8