IJIRST –International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology| Volume 3 | Issue 07 | December 2016 ISSN (online): 2349-6010
Comparison of Physical Properties between Natural Sand and Manufactured Sand Meghashree. M Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering ,Bangalore, India
Arpitha. K. Gowda Student Department of Civil Engineering Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering ,Bangalore, India
K. Roopa Student Department of Civil Engineering Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering ,Bangalore, India
Abstract Sand is an important raw material in construction industry. It is the major fine aggregate. There is scarcity of natural sand in large scale because of increased sand mining in river beds leading to lack of natural sand reserves, urban expansion, local legislations and environmental constraints. The industry must find alternatives to meet the growing demand for fine aggregates. So an alternative of this, manufactured sand is produced by the companies to meet the demands. The natural river sand is the product of sedimentation and this river sand contains more impurities than manufactured sand. So river sand sometimes cannot be used for important concreting works. So suitability of manufactured sand is tested. Therefore suitability of manufactured sand is checked by conducting the tests related to physical properties of fine aggregates like ‘fineness, bulk density and specific gravity. And tests on fresh concrete using manufactured are also tested. The results of the tests are compared with natural sand. This paper puts forward the suitability of manufactured sand to fulfill the unavailability of natural sand. Therefore manufactured sand can be used as an alternative for natural sand which maintains the eco balance. Keywords: Natural Sand, Manufactured Sand _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I.
INTRODUCTION
India is a developing country. There is also drastic infrastructure development. Natural Sand is a very important building material which can be used for construction of buildings, for repair works, for road construction etc. But the quantity of extraction of sand is not meeting the demands of customers. Mining of sand on river beds are also prohibited at most of the sites. Mining is also posing environment problems. Urban expansion and depleted resources have increased the distance between the point of extraction and the point of use. Road congestion has increased the travel time from pit to batching plant for many operators found that processed, high quality manufactured sand can improve their business and reduce the percentage waste and low value by-products. By utilizing the correct process equipment, low value crusher dust can be processed into a high value premium product which is nothing but manufactured sand which can give better strength as equal as natural sand. So comparison is done for the physical properties of manufactured sand with the natural sand by conducting various tests on physical properties of fine aggregates. In this study tests on physical properties of fine aggregate are carried out in the laboratory for both natural sand and manufactured sand. Using the tests results, comparison is done between both sands and finally suitability of manufactured sand is decided. II. EARLIER STUDIES A.M Guddodagi, a civil contactor and who has installed a M-sand manufacturing unit in the north Karnataka region , said that the increasing demand and limited supply of natural sand provoked him to install a M-sand manufacturing industry at Ainapur village in the taluk. In 2004 Kerala government started popularizing M sand industry after facing the scarcity. III. METHODOLOGY Specific Gravity This is a very important property in mix design. Oven dried aggregate passing through 4.75mm sieve is taken. Experiment is conducted according to IS 2386(PART III).: 1963. The test results are given in table 1.
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