STUDY ON BEHAVIOR OF HIGH DENSITY CONCRETE BY ADDING STEEL PUNCHES

Concrete is the most important engineering material and the addition or replacement of some of the materials may change the properties of concrete. In recent years a lot of research work has been carried out in order to obtain more durable and long term performance of concrete structures in the dynamic environment. In this research, concrete mixes of different proportions are prepared by replacing coarse aggregate with steel punchings and tested for mechanical properties of concrete. Four different proportions of steel punches are replaced, namely, 0%, 10%, 20% and 30% for M25 grade of concrete. The aim of this study is to increase the density of concrete and to accomplish it by using steel treatment waste (steel punchings) as coarse aggregate.