EXAMINING THE CAPABILITY OF COCOPEAT AS A SUSTAINABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR FINE AGGREGATE IN CONVENTIONAL CONCRETE

Abstract

In this project, it is proposed to study the behavior of concrete while adding coco-peat as partial replacement for sand. Generally, waste materials obtained from industries are used as a replacement material. Like this, coco-peat is an organic material which is a waste material obtained from coconuts. Like a sponge, coco-peat can hold large quantities of water, it will reduce the rate of curing. The features of using the coco-peat in concrete are reduction in construction cost, minimum curing rate, light weight concrete, thermal insulating property etc. There are places where there is scarcity of sand (fine aggregate) there they are using ROBOSAND as a fine aggregate.This sand has low binding and low strength as compared to normal sand.So in order to overcome this problem we going to replace Coco-peat as a replacing component.
The M35 concrete specimens of conventional are made and the comparison of compressive strength between conventional concrete to the coco-peat concrete at 7days 14days and 28 days of curing, split tensile strength with 7days and 28days curing is also done in this project.