EFFECT OF CASSAVA PEEL ASH AND EPOXY RESIN AS PARTIAL REPLACEMENT ON THE FLEXURAL STRENGTH OF CONCRETE

Zekeri jafaru, O.S. Osuji

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This work reports the outcome of an experiment carried out on the flexural strength of concrete using cassava peel ash and epoxy resin as partial replacement for cement in concrete. A lot of types of agricultural waste today pollute the environment and occupy great soil surfaces, and cassava peels is not an exception. One way for consuming waste is to use them in obtaining green materials. And polymer concrete such as epoxy resin concrete is a new advanced composite material which is used in construction industry due to its superior properties in comparison with ordinary Portland cement concrete such as higher mechanical strength and chemical resistance. The cassava peel ash was obtained by calcination of cassava peel at 360ËšC temperature. The design of the experiment used 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25% for both cassava peel ash and epoxy resin. The concrete was batched with a ratio of 1:2:4. The result obtained showed that there was no appreciable change in slump but slight increase by the increase in percentage of concentrations and the flexural strength result shows that concrete samples of various percentage concentrations increases with increase in the epoxy resin concentrations. It can be concluded that epoxy resin when used in conjunction with cassava peel ash performs equally as a good binder in concrete without reducing the flexural strength properties of the concrete

KEYWORDS:  Flexural Strength, Epoxy Resin, Cassava Peel Ash, Slump, Agricultural Waste Management


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