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ROLL NO -17BTL030103
CIVIL -6TH SEMESTER
RAJIV GANDHI GOVT
ENGINEERING COLLEGE
 The term Geopolymer was first
introduced by DAVIDOVITS IN 1978
 To describe a family of mineral binders
with chemical composition
 INTRODUCTION
 OBJECTIVE
 COMPARISION
 PROPERTIES
 MATERIAL USED
 PROCESS
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGES
 APPLICATIONS
 CONCLUSION
 REFRANCE
•Innovativeand eco-friendly
construction material

•Alternative to PCC

•Utalization of waste materials

•Properties similar to PCC

•Reduce the emission of CO2

• To determine the strength and workability by adding partial
conventional cement
•To compare the properties with conventional concrete
•To studying the permeability related characteristics of all concrete
like water absorption , porosity etc
•To study the effect of replacing crusher dust as fine aggregate
with natural ones
 NORMAL
CONCRETE
 High emission of CO2
 28 days of period required
for curing and strength
gained
 Sets rapidly so add retards
while transporting
 Chemical reactions take
place
GEOPOLYMER
CONCRETE
 low emission of CO2
 It cure more rapidly and
gain most of their strength
within 24 hours
 Set slowly delivered in a
concrete mixes
 It has chemical resistance
property
•Many concrete structures
deteriorate after 20 years.

•Cement production releases

high amount of CO2 to
atmosphere[ 1tonne of
cement production releases
1 tonne of CO2] thus
contributing to 7% of world
CO2 emissions

•Cement is one of the most

Intensive material
Partially
replace use of
cement concrete
{example : high volume fly
ash concrete}

Develop alternate
materials.
{example: GEOPOLYMER
CONCRETE}
 Geopolymer concrete has the potential to substantially
reduce CO2 emission

Produce a more durable infrastructure capable of design life

measured in hundreds of years

Conserve hundreds of thousands of acres currently used for

disposal of coal combustion products

Protect aquifers and surface bodies of fresh water via the

elimination of fly ash disposal sites
•Drying shrinkage is much less
compared to cc.
•Low heat of hydration
•Fire resistance is considerably
better then OPC
•Provide better protection to
reinforcement steel form
corrosion as compared to
traditional cement concrete
•This concrete are found to
possess very high acid resistance
when tested under exposure to
2% and 10%sulphuric acid
•Compressive strength of
GPC is 1.5 times more than
OPC

•Workabilityof Geopolymer
concrete is better in
comparison to ordinary
concrete

•The compressive strength of

Geopolymer concrete
increases as increment in% of
fly ash
•GGBS
•AGGREGATES
•FLY ASH
•DISTILLED WATER
•SUPER PLASTIZER
•ALKALINE SOLUTION
 Ground granulated blast furnace slag
 By product of iron and steel making
 Improves quality and durability of concrete
 Its production is virtually CO2 Free
 Recycle aggregates are used
 Obtained from demolition and construction waste
 RA partially replaced natural aggregates by 50% in
GPC
 By product obtained from combustion of coal in
thermal power plant
 It increases the workability of concrete
 Fly ash is activated by alkali to form Geopolymer
 No chemical reaction take place
 Ph should be less then 7
 High range water reducer
 As w/c reduces strength of GPC increases
 Slow down the setting rate of concrete
 Alkaline solution
induce silica and
aluminum atoms to
dissolve fly ash
 Alkaline activators
commonly used are
sodium and potassium
hydroxide
 Used in the
combination with
sodium silicate or
potassium silicate
 NaOH are commonly
used as it leads to
higher
Geopolymerization
rate
 Alkaline solutions induce the Si and Al
atoms in the source materials
Example : fly ash

 Gel formation is assisted by applying heat

 Gel binds the aggregates , and the

unreacted source material to form the
Geopolymer concrete
 The aggregates are prepared in
saturated surface dry [SSD] and kept in
plastic buckets with lid
 The fly ash and the aggregates are first
mixed together dry in 80 –litre capacity
pan mixer
 The liquid component of the mixture is
then added to the dry materials and
mixing continued usually for another four
minutes
 The fresh concrete could be handle upto
120 minutes without any sign of setting
and without any degradation in the
compressive strength
 The workability of fresh concrete was
measured by mean of the conventional
slump test
 Reduces the CO2 emission
 Utilization of by products
 Durable
 Eco friendly
 Fire proof
 Low permeability
 Chemical resistance
 Difficult to create
 Bringing of source material to location
 Geopolymerization is sensitive
•Used where pre cast work or pre cast
construction is done like in railway sleepers ,
Geopolymer concrete blocks etc.

•In marine structure due to chemical attacks

•In road pavements

•The reduce CO2 emissions of geopolymer cements make
them a good alternative to OPC

•Produces a substance that is comparable to or better than

that traditional cements with respect to most properties

•Geopolymer concrete has excellent properties with in both

acid and salt environments

•Low calcium fly ash-based geopolymer concrete has

excellent compressive strength and is suitable for structural
applications
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