• Research Paper USED FOUNDRY SAND: OPPORTUNITIES ...

    disposal of foundry sand and other purposes. Foundry sand consists primarily of silica sand, coated with a thin film of burnt carbon, residual binder (bentonite, sea coal, resins) and dust. Foundry sand can be used in concrete to improve its strength and other durability factors. Foundry Sand can be used as

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  • Properties of sodium silicate bonded sand hardened by ...

    Properties of sodium silicate bonded sand hardened by microwave heating Male, born in 1962, professor. ... high room temperature strength, good collapsibility and certain surface stability. However, it has big moisture absorbability in the air, which would lead to the compression ... of the foundry production in the hardened strength standard.

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  • International Journal of ChemTech Research

    Evaluation of Strength Studies on Self Compacting Concrete by using Foundry Sand and Hybrid Fibres Silpa Raj*, Vennila A., Venkatasubramani R., Sreevidya V. ... Workability and Strength Study of High Volume Fly Ash Self Compacting Concrete. The Indian Concrete Journal published by ACC limited, March 2009, pp. 1722.

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  • Strength Characteristics of Concrete Using Paper Sludge ...

    sand by 25% and 35% of clean/used foundry sand. The experimental results based on compressive strength At 28 days the concrete containing used foundry sand gave20%30% lower value when compared to control mix. But concrete containing clean/new foundry sand gave almost the same compressive strength as that of the control mix.

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  • A REVIEW OF INNOVATIVE USE OF COPPER SLAG AND .

    A REVIEW OF INNOVATIVE USE OF COPPER SLAG AND FOUNDRY SAND IN DESIGN MIX CONCRETE ... Foundry sand is high quality silica sand with uniform physical characteristics. It is a ... (2011) founded that the strength of concrete would increase with respect to the percentage of slag added by weight of fine aggregate up to 40% of additions and 15% of

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  • DOI: Mix Design of .

    characteristics: high strength, high durability and high workability 2. ... carried out to investigate the effect of percentage sand, sand zones such as coarse, medium and fine, nominal size of coarse aggregate ... After 24 hours of casting, concrete cubes were cured in a curing tank for 28 days. Compressive strength was

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  • How to Make a Sand Mold for Concrete | Hunker

    Creating a sand mold for concrete is a quick and inexpensive method of reproducing ornamental objects in concrete form. The process uses fine wet sand to hold the image of the casting model. The sand is just strong enough to avoid crumbling as you pour concrete into the depression left by the mold.

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  • Application of Foundry Waste Sand In Manufacture of .

    foundry sand has beneficial applications to other industries. Foundry sand consists primarily of silica sand, coated with a thin film of burnt carbon, residual binder (bentonite, sea coal, resins) and dust. Foundry sand can be used in concrete to improve its strength and other durability factors.

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  • Home Foundry: 11 Steps

    Home Foundry: This instructable will take you step by step how to make a home foundry so you can make quick and efficient aluminum melts for casting. ... 2 parts sand parts portland cement parts perlite (amount i ... However, it is recommended because it helps increase the strength of the concrete as well as slightly reduces heat ...

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  • Highperformance Mix Design for Concrete Countertops ...

    Sep 15, 2010· Sand and Stone: This becomes a balancing act between sand, which provides a fluid, easily consolidated mix with few bugholes, and stone for strength, appearance and less shrinkage. The higher the sand content, the lower the strength and the higher the shrinkage as a general rule. A 50/50 mix seems to be a good compromise.

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  • Prediction of High Compressive Strength of Concrete using ...

    final moisture condition on the compressive strength of concrete Compressive strength of wet concretes is less than dry concrete but their UPV values are high. The objective of the present research study is to determine ultrasonic pulse velocity(UPV) and rebound number(RN) using foundry slag(FD) as partial replacement for

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  • HIGHSTRENGTH STRUCTURAL LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE

    concrete member, This bubble is accountable for a superior freezing and thawing resistance and thermal reduce conductivity, low water absorption, high tensile strength, high fire resistance and sound retention, and corrects deficiencies in the sand that causes bleeding.

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  • Effect of waste foundry sand (WFS) as partial replacement ...

    replacement level of 25%. Chemically bonded sand is used in both core making and mould Naik at el. [10] studied the effect of class F fly ash, coal combus making. In core making high strength is necessary to withstand tion bottom ash and waste foundry sand on cast concrete product against high .

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  • Philippe Morel Uses 3D Printing For Concrete Structures ...

    Mar 10, 2014· Philippe Morel Uses 3D Printing For Concrete Structures. by Todd Halterman. March 10, 2014 ... has used 3D printed sand molds and UHPC to create novel structures from the ultra highstrength concrete. The German 3D printer company voxeljet printed Morel 130 sand mold halves to use in creating his concrete casting art.

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  • INVESTIGATION OF STRENGTH OF CONCRETE USING REED .

    the Properties of High Strength Concrete' The Twelfth East AsiaPacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Procedia Engineering 14 (2011) 370–376 [2] A. Ravitheja1 k. V. S. Gopala krishna sastry' Effect of used foundry sand and mineral admixtures On strength properties of concrete' International Journal of Civil ...

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  • Use of Foundry Sand in Conventional Concrete IJLTET

    The concrete containing foundry sand was tested and compared with conventional concrete in terms of workability, compressive strength and acid were casted and compression test was performed on 3 rd, 7 th and 28 th day for mix of 1:: at a w/c of

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  • Effect of Fineness of Sand on the Cost and Properties of ...

    Effect of Fineness of Sand on Flexural Strength of Concrete ... most consumed material in the world after water and it is used most widely in the construction industry due to its high compressive strength and other properties.[1] Therefore, the basis of Read More ...

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  • EcoFriendly High Strength Concrete By Using Foundry Sand ...

    To produce EcoFriendly High Strength Concrete at low cost by partial replacement of waste materials from Thermal Power Plant{TPS} and Foundry Metal industries like pond ash and foundry sand. The quantity of ash generated depends on type of coal used. Due to increase in power demand more coal based thermal power plant.

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  • International Journal of ChemTech Research

    Evaluation of Strength Studies on Self Compacting Concrete by using Foundry Sand and Hybrid Fibres Silpa Raj*, Vennila A., Venkatasubramani R., Sreevidya V. ... Workability and Strength Study of High Volume Fly Ash Self Compacting Concrete. The Indian Concrete Journal published by ACC limited, March 2009, pp. 1722.

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  • Foundry Sand Utilisation in Concrete Production

    aggregate with waste foundry sand. The results showed that replacement of 10% aggregates with waste foundry sand was found to be the most suitable for asphalt concrete mixtures as higher replacement levels caused reduction in strength beyond tolerances. Naik et al. [2003] conducted the tests for abrasion of concrete with foundry sand.

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  • Waste Foundry Sand Usage for Building Material Production ...

    Comparative strength development of foundry sand mixes in relation to the control mix (, mix without foundry sand) was observed. Singh and Siddique [ 30 ] performed an experimental investigation to evaluate the strength and durability properties of concrete mixtures, in which natural sand was partially replaced with the WFS.

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  • Volume 7, Issue 2, August 2017 Strength and Workability of ...

    partially replaced River Sand by Waste Foundry Sand and concluded that 30% replacement with Waste Foundry Sand gave maximum compressive strength (3). Abbas Al Ameeri varied Steel Fibers as volume fraction in SCC and determined its effect on mechanical properties of concrete. He concluded

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  • Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Hindawi

    This study presents the hydration reactivity and alkali silica reaction (ASR) of ultrahigh strength concrete (UHSC) that has been made more sustainable by using spent foundry sand. Spent foundry sand not only is sustainable but has supplementary cementitious material (SCM) characteristics. Two series of UHSC mixtures were prepared using a nonreactive and reactive sand (in terms of ASR) to ...

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