• Aadil Gulzar
• Er. Ravi Kumar

Along the rapid growth of human needs in many sectors, a significant decrease in the availability and viability of the natural resources was always faced. Neither the less, the high volume production is always associated with considerable amount of waste materials, which may adversely impacts the surrounding environment. Efforts on bypassing such dilemma were recently intensified in many countries and international establishments looking for new regulations and legislations to minimize and reuse the generated waste. One of the major waste generating industries is the marble quarry and production industry by 70% of this precious mineral resource is wasted in the mining processing and polishing procedures.40% of marble waste is generated worldwide during quarrying operations in the form of rock fragments and 30% waste generated during processing. It is being dumped either in nearby empty pits, roads, riverbeds, pasturelands, agricultural fields or landfill leading to wide spreading environmental pollution. Marble powder contains high calcium oxide content of more than 50%. The potential use of marble dust can be an ideal choice for substituting in a cementitious binder as the reactivity efficiency increases due to the presence of lime. A total of five concrete mixes, containing 0%, 7%, 14%, 18% and 22% partial replacement of cement with marble powder are investigated in the laboratory. These mixes were tested to determine compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength for 7, 14 and 28 days.

Concrete, Marble Powder, Glass Fiber, Compressive Strength, Splitting Tensile Strength, Flexural strength

"Experimental Study on Partial replacement of sand with Marble Dust Powder in high strength concrete", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.386-393, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807520.pdf

"Experimental Study on Partial replacement of sand with Marble Dust Powder in high strength concrete", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp386-393, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807520.pdf