Study on Properties of Concrete Using Fish Scales

The Processing of fish results to enormous amounts of garbage. It is estimated that fish processing waste after filleting accounts for approximately 65% of the total fish weight. About 35% of the total fish weight remains as waste in the form of skins, scales and bones during preparation of fish fillets. In India fish production is about 95.7 lakhs of tonnes out of which 7.34 lakhs of tonnes of fish scale is produced every year but unutilized. The present work an attempt has been made to develop, explore and design the possibility of utilization of labeo rohitha fish scales in the form of flakes or short fibres in concrete as an additive. The workability, compressive strength, flexural strength and split tensile strength of different percentages was determined. These concrete fish scale composite has several useful conclusions have been arrived at 10% replacement and analysis comparison has been carried out in Neural Networks.