Use of Brick Kiln Dust Waste in Paver Block to Improve its Mechanical Properties

  Bhupesh Goyal,  Pardeep Kumar Gupta

Concrete paver blocks are special pre-cast pieces of concrete blocks of non-interlocking or interlocking types, commonly used in exterior landscaping pavement applications. Properly designed and constructed paver blocks give excellent performance at locations where conventional pavement systems have lower service life due to a number of environmental, geological constraints. But with the use of high-performance concrete they can be designed to sustain light, medium, heavy and very heavy traffic conditions under any constraints. The objective of the present work was to evaluate the performance of concrete modified with brick kiln dust for paver blocks for use in pavements and other application areas. As compressive strength, and water absorption are the most significant properties for concrete paver blocks the same have been studied for various concrete mixes with varying percentages of brick kiln dust. Brick kiln dust was used as partial replacement of cement in the study and six percentages 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% for dumbbell shape paver blocks. The mix with 15% replacement was found to give maximum compressive and maximum water absorption for all types of paver blocks.

Keywords- Paver block, Brick kiln dust, compressive strength, water absorption, Interlocking

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1902099
Page Number(s) - 522-526
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 2 | June 2019
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Bhupesh Goyal,  Pardeep Kumar Gupta,   "Use of Brick Kiln Dust Waste in Paver Block to Improve its Mechanical Properties", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 2, pp.522-526, June 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1902099.pdf