AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH TOWARDS USAGE OF COCONUT SHELLS IN LEARNING CONCRETE PROPERTIES

Concrete is leading material of civil engineering construction all across the globe. Manufacturing of concrete usually involve utilization of ingredients such as cement, water, admixture, and so on. In recent times, several studies have identified that coconut shells agricultural by product were employed as the aggregate within concrete. Coconut Shells are more apt as low strength-giving lightweight aggregate while restoring of general coarse aggregate in production of concrete. Metakaolin utilization as a restricted cement replacement material in mortar and concrete were studied extensively in recent years. There is no study so far available in literature on describing of transport properties which become aware of robustness of concrete and thus our work provides additional data on potency of coconut shell concretes at a variety of coconut shells replacements and gain knowledge of transport properties of concrete by coconut shell as fine aggregate replacement and by usage of 10% Metakaolin as cement replacement. In our work we make a study on the effect of Metakaolin as a cement replacement in concrete that was in addition examined all along with coconut Shell aggregate