Main Article Content
Abstract
Concrete has several appealing characteristics that have made it as a widely construction material. Due to the day by day innovations and developments in construction field, the global consumption of natural aggregates is very high at the same time production of solid wastes from the demolitions and manufacturing units are also very high increase in the industrial and urbanization, the use of buildings also increased which results in continuous usage of construction material leads to scarcity of the concrete materials. Therefore, utilization of waste materials in concrete production is very much helpful to reach the goal of the substantial construction. The tile wastes can be added in concrete preparation due to high price of coarse aggregate in the industry. The research focuses on tile waste as partial coarse aggregate replacement for concrete production but the partial replacement alone cannot give sufficient strength to the structure. Hence, partial replacement of Nano Silica is also done along with the Broken Tiles. Nano Silica has proven to be an excellent admixture for cement to improve strength and durability and decrease permeability. Nano Silica reduces the setting time and increases the strength (compressive, tensile) of resulting cement in relation with other silica components that were tested. Thus, the combination of Broken Tiles and Nano Silica as partial replacement of Coarse Aggregate and Cement improves the quality of concrete and reduces the environmental issues and also it reduces the production cost in construction projects.