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Feasibility Study on use of 53 grade OPC for manufacture of Prestressed Concrete Railway Sleepers

Client : Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), New Delhi, India   Period: 2007-2008

Experimental work on commercial 53 grade OPCs to replace special sleeper cement.

Out Come

Commercially available 53 grade OPCs found suitable for PSC sleepers in lieu of 53-S cement

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Feasibility Study on use of Copper Slag in Cement Concrete and Mortar

Client : Sterlite Industries Limited, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu    Period: April 2009-December 2009

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Pilot cum demonstration study on use of fly ash in Geopolymer concrete pavement construction at NTP Unchahar

Ongoing Project

Client : NTPC Ltd, Unchahar, UP   Period: 2016-2018

  • Development of M40 Geopolymer concrete
  • Evaluation of mechanical and durability properties
  • Design of pavement as per traffic requirement
  • Demonstration of the pavement at Unchahar site
  • Performance evaluation of pavement till one year
Tamil

Design of M30, M35 and M40 grade concrete mix using M-sand with flyash

Various tests on concrete with manufactured sand (M-Sand) and fly ash

Client : 

M/s. Joynest, Mumbai

Tamil

Studies on performance evaluation of reinforcing bar couplers

Client : 

Halfen Moment India Private Limited, Mumbai

Scope of the project:

  • Static tensile tests on parent bar.
  • Static tensile tests on coupled bars of diameters
  • Tensile cyclic load testing of coupled bars for 100 cycles in the stress range of 0.05fy to 0.9fy for coupled bars
  • Low cycle fatigue tests on coupled bars for 10000 cycles under fully reversed stress range of ±173 MPa.
  • Slip test on coupled bars
Tamil

Development of heavy density grout with and without micro steel fibres for end shield grouting and evaluation of capacity of anchor bolt under shear at KAPP 3

Evaluation of strength capacity of anchor bolt under shear (three types of bolts, namely straight bolt, J-bolt, L-bolt). Three specimens for each series will be tested and average results will be reported using 2500 kN servo controlled UTM.

Client : 

NPCIL, Kakrapar Atomic Power Project

Tamil

Studies on Evaluation of Durability of Pre-cracked RCC Members Using Fly Ash Concrete

CPWD, New Delhi

  • Types of cement – OPC, PPC
  •  Fly ash Content – 18, 25, 35%
  •  Grades of concrete- M25 & M35
  •  Crack width – 0,0.1,0.2 mm
  •  Accelerated exposures (CO2, Sulphates, Chloride)

Outcome

  • Data base for sulphate resistance and corrosion resistance of cracked steel reinforced PPCC & FACC members to  in carbon  dioxide & chloride environs
Tamil

Development of high performance low shrinkage M40 self compacting concrete for the construction of bio containment laboratory at Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Client : URC Construction Pvt. Ltd, Erode    Period: April- August 2014

  • Development of low shrinkage M40 grade self compacting concrete mix using fly ash/ GGBS
  • Determination of fresh mechanical and shrinkage characteristics of the mix
  • Perform mock up test at project site
Tamil

Technical Feasibility studies on Geopolymer based building blocks/pavers and fly ash aggregate based building products

Client : AEON’s Construction Products Limited, Chennai   Period: 2008-2009

1200 building blocks

950 solid paver blocks  – size 100 x 200 x 90 mm

100 solid  blocks (FAA)  – size100 x 200 x 90 mm

150 hollow building blocks  – size 190 x 390 x 190 mm

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