http://iaeme.com/Home/journal/IJCIET 252 [email protected] International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET) Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2017, pp. 252–263 Article ID: IJCIET_08_02_027 Available online at http://iaeme.com/Home/issue/IJCIET?Volume=8&Issue=2 ISSN Print: 0976-6308 and ISSN Online: 0976-6316 © IAEME Publication Indexed Scopus CRITICAL REVIEW ON STRUCTURAL LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE V. Swamy Nadh Research scholar, VIT University, Chennai, India K. Muthumani Professor, VIT University, Chennai, India ABSTRACT Concrete is widely used material across the world for construction of large structures. Due to increase in industrialization and development of urban areas, high volume of resources is required which are available naturally. This means high volume of resources is used worldwide for production of concrete. To reduce the use of such resources and to decrease the negative impact on environment, the uses of industrial waste and artificial aggregates as a replacement of natural aggregates are increasingly used. Another focus required in material research is to reduce the concrete weight density so that the effective dead load and seismic loads can be lowered. The paper attempts to review the literature and present a state of art in making lightweight concrete as reported till now for structural application. Key words: Lightweight Concrete, Oil Palm Shell, Expanded Clay Aggregates, Scoria Aggregates, Conventional Concrete, Pumice Aggregate Cite this Article: V. Swamy Nadh and K. Muthumani, Critical Review On Structural Light Weight Concrete. , 8(2), 2017, pp. International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology 252–263. http://iaeme.com/Home/issue/IJCIET?Volume=8&Issue=2 1. INTRODUCTION Lightweight Concrete (LWC) has been used since many years. Many monuments are constructed with lightweight concrete and these are long lasting up to now. Lightweight concrete are mainly from natural volcanic eruption and are common totals of volcanic root, for example, pumice, scoria, and so forth. Sumerians utilized this as a part of building Babylon in the third thousand years B.C. (Fig. 1). The Greeks and the Romans were first used pumice as a part of building development. These buildings are still in existing with minor failures like St. Sofia Cathedral or Hagia Sofia, in Istanbul, Turkey, worked by two specialists, Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles, charged by the Emperor Justinian in the fourth century A.D,the Roman sanctuary, Pantheon, which was raised in the years A.D. 118 to 128 (Fig 2); the auspicious conduit, Pont du Gard, assembled in A.D. 14; and the considerable Roman amphitheatre, Coliseum, worked in A.D. 70 and 82. Notwithstanding building developments, the Romans utilized normal lightweight concrete and empty dirt vases to make "Creation Caementitium"
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