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Durability Phenomenon in Manufactured Sand Concrete: Effects of Zinc Oxide and Alcofine on Behaviour

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Despite several studies focusing on producing sustainable concrete with nonconventional materials, there are short-term and long-term lapses in behavior of some of the concretes. This study, with a main focus on durability performance, explores strength and behavior of manufactured sand concrete containing alcofine and zinc oxide in severe environmental conditions. Alcofine and zinc oxide were added to the mixture at 10% and 2% by weight of cement, respectively. Manufactured Sand was used as a partial replacement for river sand at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. The compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength of the concrete were determined after standard curing regimes. Durability tests, entailing exposure of concrete to acid attack, sea water, water absorption, sulphate attack, water permeability and rapid chloride penetration, were also performed. The results show that mixture made with 50% manufactured sand 10 %Alccofine and 0.5% Zinc oxide replacement, demonstrated better durability.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, V V College of Engineering, Tiasiyanvilai, Tamilnadu, 627657, India

    K Thangapandi & N Archana

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, SNS College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, 642035, India

    R Anuradha

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    P. O Awoyera

  4. Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam

    P. O Awoyera

  5. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam

    P. O Awoyera

  6. Department of Civil Engineering, SR Engineering College, Warangal, 506371, India

    R Gobinath

  7. Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India

    M Berlin

  8. Discipline of Civil Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

    Olalusi B. Oladimeji

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Thangapandi, K., Anuradha, R., Awoyera, P.O. et al. Durability Phenomenon in Manufactured Sand Concrete: Effects of Zinc Oxide and Alcofine on Behaviour. Silicon 13, 1079–1085 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-020-00494-2

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