Pavement Stretch constructed using Alkali activated concrete pavers by the department of Civil Engineering

 Pavement Stretch constructed using Alkali activated concrete pavers  by the department of Civil Engineering

        A rural pavement stretch of size two.5 m × sixteen m exploitation Alkali activated concrete paver blocks is made at Jaspur Village, Kalol, Gandhinagar by the department of technology, Institute of Technology, Nirma University. The paver blocks area unit created exploitation zero cement concrete (alkali activated concrete) and used for the development of the agricultural pavement having low traffic volume.

     The higher than work is one amongst the result of the research titled “Application of formed product created exploitation Bottom Ash And ash For Rural Pavements And different Infrastructure In India”. The aforementioned project may be a cooperative research between University of Victoria, North American nation & Nirma University, India and is approved by IC-IMPACTS (India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate Community Transformation and Sustainability) Centres of Excellence.

      The paver blocks wont to create the pavement area unit of “Unipaver”/“Zigzag” form & of thickness of sixty metric linear unit. The alkali activated concrete paver blocks have earned the compressive strength up to forty MPa when the completion of close action for the time length of 28-days.
      The alkali activated concrete paver blocks contained a mix of ash and Bottom ash, Coarse mixture restricted to size of ten metric linear unit, Sand, hydroxide & soluble glass. ash & Bottom ash area unit the waste product of the thermal power plants. hydroxide & soluble glass used for the paver blocks area unit of business grade. Therefore, it's anticipated that the alkali activated paver blocks area unit economical as compared thereto of cement concrete paver blocks.

        The in small stages procedure of creating the pavement stretch consists,
1) Preparation of around 1200 Nos. of alkali activated concrete paver blocks at concrete casting yard of technology department, Nirma University.
2) Excavation of size 2.5 m × sixteen m having depth of two hundred metric linear unit exploitation power shovel.
 3) birth of PCC of depth a hundred metric linear unit having grade of concrete of M10.
 4) birth of twelve in. edge stones around edges of the pavement.
 5) birth of forty metric linear unit depth sand bedding.
6) birth of paver blocks having depth of sixty metric linear unit in textile bond.
 7) Joint waterproofing between paver blocks exploitation compactor.