Performance of Copper Slag and Foundry Sand in Concrete

This state of art review represents the development in the field of utilization of foundry sand and Copper slag in cementations concrete. The paper reviews the utilization of Copper slag and foundry sand as the concrete constituent and the noticeable and important findings from the experimental works of various researchers. After a careful study, authors to integrate all the important results for streamlining the potential of this area of research. Based upon historical development on the individual material either copper slag or foundry sand is found as replacement of fine aggregate. The availability of copper slag and Foundry sand is large and causes lots of disposal problems. Even the use of river sand is banned in many of areas across India because of river depletion, so copper slag and foundry sand may be an effective option as a partial replacement of fine aggregate in concrete. The paper summarizes conclusions of experiments conducted for the properties like Compressive strength. It was observed the results have shown positive changes and improvement in strength of the conventional cementitious concrete due to the addition or replacement of fine sand with used foundry sand in different proportions. The best result obtained in present research for compressive strength of concrete are for 50-60% replacement of fine aggregate.