Abstract :
The depletion of natural sand creates scarcity of river sand near to the worksite and also increased its cost of
conveyance many folds. The non-availability of natural sand creating the major environmental issues such as
depletion of natural water table, drought of water, etc. Hence to substitute for natural river sand for the construction
industry needs an alternative material to be found out. Hence an attempt has been made in this present work to use
the eco-friendly machine made Granite rock sand from vertical shaft impact crushers called manufactured sand (Msand)
as fine aggregates. This paper presents an experimental investigation on strength and durability properties of
the concrete made of eco-friendly sand replaced by natural sand and the results were compared with the conventional
said concrete. Concrete mix design was carried out as per Indian standard specification. From the current
investigation, strength properties shows that the compressive strength, modulus of rupture and split strength is
increases nearly 20% more than the conventional concrete. Concrete with manufactured sand possess superior
durability performance than the conventional sand concrete.
Keyword :
Durability Properties, Manufactured sand, Mechanical Properties, Super plasticizer