Experimental Study on Partial Replacement of Materials like Industrial Waste & Rice Husk with Clay Mortar

Abstract

Abstract: Ancient peoples were used mud mortar for their stone houses. The result was a stone home that was both solid and warm and lasted for lifetimes. Mud made houses creates wonderful warm houses as compared to concrete made houses. In the history of construction, clay mortar was followed by lime mortar. Cement manufacturing is one of the major contributors in global warming and climate change. Also fine aggregate is the natural resource and it is limited in nature, thus industrial sand can be alternative for fine aggregate. We are going to use PPC cement because PPC cement resist sulphate attack more than OPC cement and also it is quite cheap. The setting time of the PPC cement is more than OPC cement but when it settled completely then it gives more strength more than OPC cement. Also they used river sand in there project and nowadays there is shortage of river sand that’s why we are going to use foundry sand partially replacement with sand. Foundry sand is a industrial waste sand so we can save money by using foundry sand. The mortar with the alternative fine aggregate, mixed with different combinations of binding materials. We take White clay to River sand proportion as 1:1. In that we partially replace white clay with PPC cement and in other hand River sand partially replaced with Industrial waste(Foundry sand) and also with Rice husk and that mix proportions was tested for 28 days Compressive strength & after curing of 28 days ,cubes cured in acid & alkali solution for Durability strength. The mortar with 20% PPC cement + 80% white clay & 40% foundry sand + 60% river sand (proportion of white clay to river sand is 1:1) has compressive strength in the range of 4.38MPa (Compressive strength) & 4.42Mpa (Compressive strength after Durability test) and these mixes compared with 1:6 conventional mortar proportion, which is acceptable as per the IS code 2250-1981 specification, the minimum strength requirement of mortar to be 3 MPa. Therefore, the use of stabilized mud mortar in construction would prove to be sustainable as well economical. Keywords: Mud mortar, Foundry sand, PPC cement, Compressive strength, Durability test.