Paper Key : IRJ************714
Author: Zeeshan Ahmed,Samar Hussain Rizvi,Aneel Kumar
Date Published: 02 Oct 2023
Abstract
Global Warming is a major alarming concern which significantly affect the fresh and hardened properties of concrete. As sustainable construction practices gain importance, investigating alternative admixtures becomes essential. Organic retarding admixture like table sugar (sucrose C_12 H_22 O_11) have a versatile use in a current concrete industry. For this research work, locally available table sugar in a fine powdered form was utilized and the nominal mix of M20 grade concrete with 1:1.5:3 at 0.52 water to binder ratio was prepared using 0%, 0.02%, 0.04%, 0.06%, 0.08% and 0.1% of sugar by weight of cement to examine the effect of sugar on the compressive strength of concrete. The results indicated that the inclusion of sugar improved compressive strength of concrete by 9.99% at 0.02% of sugar by weight of cement.