Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement

Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is a modern high-performance concrete, which is characterised by excellent performance in flowing and filling ability which required a high amount of cement. Nowadays there are many alternative materials, which possible to be used as a replacement of cement to overcome...

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Main Authors: Abdallah Al-Oran, Abdallah Adnan, Safiee, Nor Azizi, Mohd. Nasir, Noor Azline
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79953/
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author Abdallah Al-Oran, Abdallah Adnan
Safiee, Nor Azizi
Mohd. Nasir, Noor Azline
author_facet Abdallah Al-Oran, Abdallah Adnan
Safiee, Nor Azizi
Mohd. Nasir, Noor Azline
author_sort Abdallah Al-Oran, Abdallah Adnan
building UPM Institutional Repository
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description Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is a modern high-performance concrete, which is characterised by excellent performance in flowing and filling ability which required a high amount of cement. Nowadays there are many alternative materials, which possible to be used as a replacement of cement to overcome the negative effect due to the usage of cement such as ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) and metakaolin (MK). This study aimed at investigating the fresh and hardened properties of SCC produced by GGBS and MK as partial cement replacement. Cement was replaced with MK at a constant level of 10% while GGBS is substituted cement at various levels of 15%, 20%, 25% and 30% as a ternary blending powder. Results obtained indicates that the inclusion of MK reduced the workability, oppose finding for GGBS exhibited improvement in the workability. For the hardened properties at an early age, mix which contained MK showed improvement in the strength characteristics, whilst at later age the mix with a combination of MK and GGBS exhibited better performance. From this study, it can be concluded that the optimum replacement level of cement to produce good quality of SCC is 10% and 25% for MK and GGBS, respectively.
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spelling upm-799532023-04-03T02:46:52Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79953/ Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement Abdallah Al-Oran, Abdallah Adnan Safiee, Nor Azizi Mohd. Nasir, Noor Azline Self-compacting concrete (SCC) is a modern high-performance concrete, which is characterised by excellent performance in flowing and filling ability which required a high amount of cement. Nowadays there are many alternative materials, which possible to be used as a replacement of cement to overcome the negative effect due to the usage of cement such as ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) and metakaolin (MK). This study aimed at investigating the fresh and hardened properties of SCC produced by GGBS and MK as partial cement replacement. Cement was replaced with MK at a constant level of 10% while GGBS is substituted cement at various levels of 15%, 20%, 25% and 30% as a ternary blending powder. Results obtained indicates that the inclusion of MK reduced the workability, oppose finding for GGBS exhibited improvement in the workability. For the hardened properties at an early age, mix which contained MK showed improvement in the strength characteristics, whilst at later age the mix with a combination of MK and GGBS exhibited better performance. From this study, it can be concluded that the optimum replacement level of cement to produce good quality of SCC is 10% and 25% for MK and GGBS, respectively. Taylor & Francis 2019 Article PeerReviewed Abdallah Al-Oran, Abdallah Adnan and Safiee, Nor Azizi and Mohd. Nasir, Noor Azline (2019) Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement. European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 26 (1). pp. 379-392. ISSN 1964-8189; ESSN: 2116-7214 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19648189.2019.1663268 10.1080/19648189.2019.1663268
spellingShingle Abdallah Al-Oran, Abdallah Adnan
Safiee, Nor Azizi
Mohd. Nasir, Noor Azline
Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement
title Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement
title_full Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement
title_fullStr Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement
title_full_unstemmed Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement
title_short Fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and GGBS as cement replacement
title_sort fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete using metakaolin and ggbs as cement replacement
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