This document discusses a study on using glass powder as a partial replacement for cement in concrete. It outlines the objectives, scope and significance of the project. The materials used and experimental work conducted are described. The procedures for the experimental work, sieve analysis and various tests are provided. The abstract summarizes that glass powder can be used to replace a certain amount of cement powder, as this is an environmentally friendly way to dispose of waste glass and does not negatively impact the strength of concrete. Fine glass powders are also shown to reduce the expansion of mortars due to alkali-silica reaction.

1. CERTIFICATE
The foregoing dissertation entitled “STUDY OF GLASS POWDER AS PARTIAL
REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT IN CONCRETE” is hereby approved as a creditable study
of an engineering discipline (CIVIL ENGINEERING) carried out and presented by Pawan
Kumar, Noman Ansari ,Pankaj Suthar, Nitish Meena and Danish Khan in a manner
satisfactory to warrant its acceptance as a pre-requisite to his Bachelor of Engineering degree
in Civil.
Mr Jitendra B. Jangid
Project Guide
Mr. Nishant Kumar Dr. O.P. Sharma
(HOD) (Director)
Department of civil engg
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
POORNIMA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ISI-6, RIICO INSTITUTIONAL AREA, SITAPURA,
JAIPUR-302022

2. DECLARATION
I herewith submit the Report titled “STUDY OF GLASS POWDER AS
PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF CEMENT IN CONCRETE” to POORNIMA
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in
CIVIL. I carried out under the guidance of Mr. Jitendra B. Jangid (Asst. Prof.),
Department of civil engg.
DATE 13/11/2014 Pawan kumar
Pankaj Suthar
Noman Ansari
Nitish Meena
Danish Khan

3. Acknowledgement
I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to my
guide and HOD of CIVIL DEPARTMENT Mr. Nishant kumar, for his esteemed
guidance and encouragement, especially through difficult times. His suggestions
broaden my vision and guided me to succeed in this work. I am also very grateful
for his guidance and comments while designing part of my project and learnt
many things under his leadership.
Also I would like to thanks to all teaching and non-teaching staff of CIVIL
department for their encouragement and suggestions for my project. My sincere
thanks to all my friends, who helped me directly or indirectly in completing this
project work. I would like to express my appreciation for the wonderful
experience while completions of this project work.

4. CONTENTS
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1 Introduction 1
2 Literature review 3
3 Project objective 6
4 Project scope and significance 8
5 Material Used and Experimental works 11
6 Procedure of Experimental work 14
7 Sieve analysis 18
8 Tests 22

5. ABSTRACT
Demand for recycled glass has considerably decreased in recent years, particularly for mixed-glass.
Glass is cheaper to store than to recycle, as conditioners require expenses for the recycling
process. There are several alternatives for the reuse of composite-glass. According all
applications, which require pre-conditioning and crushing, are more or less limited and unable to
absorb all the quantities of waste glass available. In order to provide a sustainable solution to
glass storage, a potential and incentive way would be to reuse this type of glass as replacement of
cement.
Depending on the size of the glass particles as replacement of cement, two antagonistic
behaviours can be observed: alkali- silica reaction, which involves negative effects, and
pozzolanic reaction, improving the properties. The use of fine particles of glass and glass
aggregates in mortars, either separately or combined. Two parameters based on standardized
tests were studied: pozzolanic assessment by mechanical tests on mortar samples and alkali-reactive
aggregate characteristics and fines inhibitor evaluations by monitoring of dimensional
changes. It is shown that there is no need to use glass in the form of fines since no swelling due
to alkali-silica reaction is recorded when the diameter of the glass grains is less than 1mm.
Besides, fine glass powders having specific surface areas ranging from 180 to 540m² / kg reduce
the expansions of mortars subjected to alkali-silica reaction (especially when glass aggregates of
diameters larger than 1 mm are used
So it is clear that we can use glass powder in replacement of cement powder by a certain
amount beyond and less than that amount decrease the strength of concrete. Moreover it is a
environmentally friendly way to eradicate the waste generated by glass