POROSITAS DAN PERMEABILITAS BETON MENGGUNAKAN PASIR TAILING TAMBANG TIMAH DAN PASIR BESI

The increasing need of concrete as construction material makes natural resources keep declining. It motivates the constructional industries to create more innovations in concrete’s production. The use of tin tailing sand and iron sand is one of solution to answer the issue. The objective of this research is to know the optimum content of tin tailing sand and iron sand in reducing the porosity and the permeability of concrete. The smaller the size of sand’s granule is expected can fill the pores of concrete so it can produce low porosity and permeability value. This research used experiments method in laboratory. The samples of porosity and permeability used in this research were 33 for each. The contents of tin tailing sand and iron sand were 0%, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100%. Each variant consisted of 3 samples. The sample of porosity was a cube with dimension of 5x5x5 cm3, whereas the sample of permeability was a concrete cylinder with 7,5 cm in diameter and 15 cm in height. Porosity and permeability of concrete was tested in 28 days. The result of this research shows that tin tailing sand with content of 40% can decrease porosity 19,63% from porosity of normal concrete and decrease of permeability 24,6% from permeability of normal concrete. The optimum content of tin tailing sand for porosity is 44,8% dan for permeability is 42.2%. Whereas the use of 80% iron sand shows decrease of porosity 24,94% from porosity of normal concrete and decrease of permeability 23,92% from permeability of normal concrete. The optimum iron sand for porosity is 87,2% and for permeability is 69%. This result shows that tin tailing sand and iron sand function well as the filler in concrete mixture. Keywords: Iron sand, tin tailing sand, permeability, porosity