1. A review on coir fibre reinforced concrete using metakaolin and robo sand.
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Madhavi, Sama, Reddy, V. Mallikarjuna, and Yedukondalu, C.
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REINFORCED concrete , *COIR , *FIBERS , *SAND , *REINFORCING bars , *NATURAL fibers - Abstract
Nowadays the call for sand has accelerated immensely, inflicting deficit of appropriate river sand in diverse components of Telangana. Therefore, searching out an opportunity to river sand, Robo sand is determined economical. It competes absence of deleterious substances and higher fine makes it most effective to apply in concreting and plastering. Metakaolin may be a dehydroxylated form of kaolinite clay, that is taken into consideration to be a treasured mineral admixture having two times the reactivity of maximum of different pozzolans. Metakaolin reveals favorable engineering residences along with filler effect, acceleration of OPC, hydration and pozzolanic response which makes it beneficial to get replaced via way of means of cement. Steel reinforcement is high priced in creation enterprise to triumph over this difficulty, a fee powerful however secure constructional cloth is needed. Natural fibers may be one capability cloth, as they're in reasonably-priced and domestically to be had in lots of places. Taking most of these advantages into account, on this gift research the herbal coir fiber the use of metakaolin as cement substitute with completely changed Robo sand is used to triumph over the brittleness of the concrete. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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