Study on properties of rice husk ash and its use as cement replacement material

Materials Research

Ghassan Abood Habeeb¹  Hilmi Bin Mahmud¹ 

[1] ,University of Malaya Faculty of Engineering Department of Civil EngineeringKuala Lumpur Malaysia

关键词: fineness;    pozzolan;    compressive strength;    XRD;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-14392010000200011

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This paper investigates the properties of rice husk ash (RHA) produced by using a ferro-cement furnace. The effect of grinding on the particle size and the surface area was first investigated, then the XRD analysis was conducted to verify the presence of amorphous silica in the ash. Furthermore, the effect of RHA average particle size and percentage on concrete workability, fresh density, superplasticizer (SP) content and the compressive strength were also investigated. Although grinding RHA would reduce its average particle size (APS), it was not the main factor controlling the surface area and it is thus resulted from RHA's multilayered, angular and microporous surface. Incorporation of RHA in concrete increased water demand. RHA concrete gave excellent improvement in strength for 10% replacement (30.8% increment compared to the control mix), and up to 20% of cement could be valuably replaced with RHA without adversely affecting the strength. Increasing RHA fineness enhanced the strength of blended concrete compared to coarser RHA and control OPC mixtures.

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