FRESH AND HARDENED STATE PROPERTIES OF TERNARY BLEND SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE USING SILICA FUME AND GROUND GRANULATED BLAST FURNACE SLAG

In the present research, ternary blended Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) was prepared to evaluate the performance by replacing cement with the Silica Fume (SF) from 5% to 20% and ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) from 20% to 60% in the total percentage of the weight of the cement. An attempt was made to study the performance of fresh concrete by slump flow test, T-500, U-box and L-box test, and the hardened properties of concrete by cube compression and cylinder split tensile test. The superplasticizer and stabilizer were added in optimum dosages to prevent the segregation and bleeding of fresh concrete. More powder content, say 60% GGBS and varying SF from 5% to 20%, as cement replacement for ternary blended SCC has obtained better fresh property behaviour. But lower content of GGBS, say 20% blended with SF 10% and SF 15% obtained higher split tensile and compressive strength, respectively.