Geopolymer Masonry Block: A Substitute Material for Cement Concrete Block

6 Pages Posted: 4 Mar 2020

Date Written: January 28, 2020

Abstract

In today’s era, it is known that equal amount of CO2 is been produced per ton of cement while its production which is very resource and energy intensive process. And this issue leads to develop a new alternative material such as fly ash, ground granulated blast furnace slabs i.e. CGBS because cement industries are creating trouble environmental issues. Also for sustainability, there is essential requirement to build masonry units using this alternative materials. Fly ash which is biproduct of thermal power plant is utilized by Geopolymer technology. In the current paper, cement and geopolymer blocks are produces by identical method. Properties of geopolymer masonry block such as compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, density, initial rate of absorption and water absorption are defined and compared. The results states that geopolymer blocks can be proposed for use of masonry units for structural masonry. And so use of conventional cement can be reduced.

Keywords: Geopolymer, Cement, Comparative study, density, modulus of elasticity, water absorption

Suggested Citation

Niphadkar, Ajinkya, Geopolymer Masonry Block: A Substitute Material for Cement Concrete Block (January 28, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3533668 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3533668

Ajinkya Niphadkar (Contact Author)

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