Partial Replacement of Cement with Ceramic Waste and Pond Ash in Concrete

Nowadays construction industry is focussing on various wastes from other industries to use them as substitutes for construction materials which will reduce their initial cost. Waste disposal from thermal power plants and ceramic industries are increasing day by day and creating lot of environmental pollution due to lack of utilising them. Due to pozzolonic nature of these materials they can be used in construction industry as substitute to cement. The present experimental investigation examines the possibility of replacing cement with ceramic waste obtained from tiles industry and pond ash from thermal power plants in concrete mix design. The optimum replacement percentage of ceramic waste in cement was already know as 15% from past literatures and now experimental work is carried out by varying remaining percentage of cement with pond ash (5%, 10%, and 15%) in concrete mix. The optimum replacement percentage of pond ash will be obtained.