The Effect of Adding Types of Agricultural Residues on the Concrete Behaviour

Authors(3) :-Wael Shahadha Abdul Kareem, Hadi Salih Mijwal Aljumaily, Mohammed Nsaif Abbas

Numerous of renowned conglomerates declared every year a new brands of classical chemical admixtures, but there was no one disclosed a new brand manufactured from a food waste, on another hand, due to the proliferation of wastes resulting from the foodstuff which is included within the environmental pollution framework. So this issue-study is to parade the ability of utilizing pomegranate leaves powder (PLP) as an admixture to magnify the compressive strength of Ordinary Portland Concrete (OPC), and to emerge the effect of these peels on the behavior and the properties of concrete. The ratio of (PLP/cement) was ranging between 0-1.0% by weight with mix proportion of (1:2:4) (cement:sand:gravel) by volume and a constant water to cement ratio (W/C) of 0.45. An evolve rate of 14.4% in concrete compressive strength was observed with increasing the ratio of PLP admixtures to 0.15%. Thus, the pomegranate leaves deem to be superb and efficient.

Authors and Affiliations

Wael Shahadha Abdul Kareem
Environmental Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
Hadi Salih Mijwal Aljumaily
Environmental Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq
Mohammed Nsaif Abbas
Environmental Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq

Pomegranate Leaves Powder, Ordinary Portland Concrete, Water to Cement Ratio, Pomegranate Leaves Powder, Ordinary Portland Cement

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 4 | July-August 2019
Date of Publication : 2019-08-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 69-75
Manuscript Number : IJSRCE193411
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2456-6667

Cite This Article :

Wael Shahadha Abdul Kareem, Hadi Salih Mijwal Aljumaily, Mohammed Nsaif Abbas, "The Effect of Adding Types of Agricultural Residues on the Concrete Behaviour", International Journal of Scientific Research in Civil Engineering (IJSRCE), ISSN : 2456-6667, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp.69-75, July-August.2019
URL : https://ijsrce.com/IJSRCE193411

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