Abstract In the present research work, investigations were carried out to improve the performance of concrete in terms of strength and resistance to chloride-ion-penetration by incorporating metakaolin (MK) as mineral admixture in concrete. Parametric study was carried out by considering w/cm ratio, various percentage of MK and age of concrete as parameters to understand the effect of each parameter. The study was conducted for different water-to-cement metakaolin ratio (w/cm) ratios of 0.32, 0.35, 0.4 and 0.5. The MK proportion was varied from 0 to 15% with an increment of 5% and ages of concrete from 3 to 90 days were considered and experiments performed accordingly. The effects of above said parameters on the various properties of concrete such as workability, compressive strength, chloride penetrability (Rapid chloride permeability test as per ASTM C 1202), pH of concrete and depth of penetration of chloride ions were investigated, and the results of MK concrete were compared with the conventional concrete. From the results, it was observed that MK concrete showed greater strength for higher w/cm ratios (0.4 and 0.5) and its resistance to chloride ion penetration was more or less consistent for all w/cm ratios and the optimal amount of MK resulted significant reduction in chloride ion penetration. A Multiple non-linear regression analysis was used to develop a statistical model to predict the strength and found to have good correlation between the observed and predicted values. It was concluded that the concrete developed in this study have significant potential for use on real time projects.


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    Title :

    Compressive strength and chloride resistance of metakaolin concrete


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    Publication date :

    2012-10-30


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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