CERAMIC TILES WASTE AS AGGREGATE IN CONCRETE PRODUCTION
Gana A.J; Oyedele O. Tope & Braimoh S.O.
Department of Civil Engineering
Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State
Email: braimohsolomon@lmu.edu.ng&braimohsolo@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
In construction industry,the use of course aggregate and consumption of ceramic materials is increasing every day. While a reasonable quantity of ceramic tiles material ends up as waste the use of these waste in the production of concrete can be an efficient measure in disposing of these waste and in keeping the environment clean and improving the properties of concrete. Compressive strength test was carried out on the cubes produced with ceramic tiles waste of 5%, 10%, 20%, 30% 40% and 50% with natural coarse aggregate. After analyzing all the results, obtained, the highest compressive strength value was obtained at 5%.This shows that 5% replacement of ceramic tiles for all the replacement and all the curing days has the highest compressive strength value (12.07, 21.78 and 20.71). after 20% ceramic waste tile, the compressive strength starts decreasing as compared to control sample of 14 curing days.
Keywords:Ceramic tiles waste, Replacement, Course aggregate, concreteproduction.
