Water Requirement of Concrete with Mineral Admixtures

India is one of the leading producers of sugar and rice, hence agricultural waste is generated in huge quantities in India leading to potential disposal problems without effective management techniques. However, the economic importance of this solid waste has been realised with several applications like adsorbents, filters, ceramics, briquettes, bricks, and blocks and soil amendment activities. Cement is one of the most universally used material. Cement production is an environmental threat as well as the production cost is also very high. Manufacturing of cement and its use is also one of the causes of global warming Environmentalists and Researchers around the world are searching for better options to replace cement As cement replacement materials mineral admixtures are nowadays gaining mileage as they address two problems. First is the waste management of agricultural wastes, which causes air pollution due to open air burning and the second is reducing the demand for cement. Hence in addition to reducing the cost it also reduces the hazardous effect that it has on the environment. In general, the particle size of these admixtures play an important role in making the concrete dense, but low particle size leads to increased surface area and more requirement their surface area increases and workability reduces. Hence to make the concrete workable the water requirement also increase [1].Generally the water requirement or the water cement ratio for normal concrete is between 0.35 to 0.5 , depending on the cement content and the mix design . For high strength concrete where the quantity of cement increases the water cement ratio also increases. But in concrete with mineral admixtures the water cement ratio is more than 0.6. The present paper deals with the water requirement for the concrete with cement replacement with mineral admixtures , The two types of admixtures water requirement of concrete with partial replacement of cement with sugarcane bagasse ash and rice husk ash in different proportions of 5 % , 10%, 15% , 20%, 25% and 30 % , earlier as a binary mix replacing the mineral admixtures individually and later together as a ternary mix using both the mineral admixtures together. The results indicate increase in water content with the increase in cement replacement proportions in both the binary and ternary mix . The increase in water content does not hamper the compressive strength of the binary and ternary mix , but in some cases increases it.