NANO CONCRETE

Zuhair Nadeem
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CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
WHY NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR CONCRETE?
WHAT IS NANO CONCRETE?
NANO MATERIALS
NANO SILICA
BENEFITS OF NANO CONCRETE
CONCLUSION
SCOPE
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
Nanotechnology is one of the most active
research areas which has wide applications in
almost all the fields.
As concrete is most usable material in
construction industry its been required to
improve its quality.
Improving concrete properties by addition of
nano particles have shown significant
improvement than conventional concrete.

WHY NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR

CONCRETE?
Improves the materials bulk properties.
Ability to control or manipulate materials at the atomic
scale. (ALKALI SILICATE REACTION)
Faster setting time.
Cost effectiveness.
Lowered levels of environmental contamination.

WHAT IS NANO CONCRETE?

A concrete made with portland cement particles
that are less than 500nm as a cementing agent.
Currently cement particle sizes range from a
few nano-meters to a maximum of about100
micro meters.

NANO MATERIALS
Carbon Nanotubes.
Nano-silica.

CARBON NANO TUBES

Carbon nanotubes are molecular-scale tubes of graphitic
carbon with outstanding properties.
They can be several millimetres in length and can have one
layer or wall (single walled nanotube) or more than one
wall (multi walled nanotube).

SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANO TUBES

MULTI
WALLED
CARBON NANO
TUBES

PROPERTIES
CNT are also highly flexible.
Mechanically, CNT appear to be the strongest material.
The smaller diameters.
Stiffest and strongest fibers.

NANO SILICA
Is the first nano product that replaced the micro
silica.
Advancement made by the study of concrete at
nano scale have proved nano silica much better
than silica used in conventional concrete.

NANO SILICA

PROPERTIES
High compressive strengths concretes ( 15 MPa
and 75 MPa at 1 day; 40 MPa and 90 MPa at 28
days and 48 MPa and 120 MPa at 120 days.)
High workability with reduced water/cement
ratio.
Use of super plasticizing additives is
unnecessary.
Fills up all the micro pores and micro spaces.
Cement saving upto 35-45%.

 Meets the norms of environmental protection.

70% less use of additives as traditional silica, super

plasticizers or traditional fibres.

BENEFITS OF NANO CONCRETE

Lower cost per building site.
Concrete with high initial and final compressive and tensile
strengths.
Concrete with good workability.
Cessation of super plasticizing utilization.

CONCLUSION
Well dispersed nano particles increase the
viscosity of the liquid phase, improves the
segregation resistance and workability of the
system.
Accelerates the hydration.
Better bond between aggregates and cement
paste.
Improves the toughness,shear,tensile strength
and flexural strength of concrete.

SCOPE
If Portland cement can be formulated with
nano-size cement particles, it will open up a
large number of opportunities.
The cement will not only be more economical
than organic polymers but also will be fire
resistant.
A number of investigations have been carried
out for developing smart concrete using carbon
fibers.

 This will become a reality with nano-cement because nanocarbontubes are much more effective than carbon fibers.
The thickness of the composite can be reduced to microns
and hence flexible and smart cement composite can be
manufactured.

REFERENCES
24 G.D ZHAN J.D, Nature Materials, 2003, 2.38
LI, G (2004) Properties of high-volume fly ash
concrete incorporating Nano-sio2 Research. Vol34 p.
1043-1049.

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