VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

JNANA SANGAMA BELAGAVI - 590018

A
PROJECT REPORT (21CVP76)

ON

“AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF M30 GRADE

CONCRETE BY PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF COARSE AGGREGATE WITH WASTE RUBBER
TYRES”

Submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of degree of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
in
CIVIL ENGINEERING

Submitted by
JHAMAN SINGH RANA(1AT21CV005)
LOK RAJ JOSHI (1AT21CV007)
OMPRAKASH PATEL(1AT21CV011)
Under the Guidance of
Mr. SACHIN K G
Assistant professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering
AIT, Bengaluru

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Atria Institute of Technology Anandnagar, Bengaluru -560024
2024-2025
 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE

This is Certified that the Project report (21CVP76) entitled “AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF M30 GRADE CONCRETE BY PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF
COARSE AGGREGATE WITH WASTE RUBBER TYRES” carried out by JHAMAN SINGH RANA
[1AT21CV005], LOK RAJ JOSHI [1AT21CV007] AND OMPRAKASH PATEL [1AT21CV011]
bonafide students of ATRIA INSTITUTEOF TECHNOLOGY in partial fulfillment for the award of
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING degree in CIVIL ENGINEERING of the Visvesvaraya
Technological University, Belagavi during the year 2024- 2025. The Project work has been approved as
it satisfies the academic requirement in respect of project work prescribed for the said Degree.

Signature of Guide Signature of the HOD Signature of Principal

Mr. Sachin K G Dr. Surendra H J Dr. Rajesha S

Assistant professor Dept. of Civil Engg. Principal

Dept. of Civil Engg. Professor and Head Atria I T

Signature with Date

Name of Examiners
1.

2.
 DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

DECLARATION

We hereby certify that the Project Work which is being presented in the report titled
"AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF M30 GRADE
CONCRETE BY PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF COARSE AGGREGATE WITH WASTE
RUBBER TYRES” in partial fulfillment for the award of degree of BACHELOR OF
ENGINEERING in CIVIL ENGINEERING of the Visvesvaraya Technological University,
Belagavi is an authentic record of my own work carried out during 2024- 2025.The matter
embodied in this Project Work has not been submitted by us for the award of any other degree.

Place: Bengaluru
Date:

JHAMAN SINGH RANA [1AT20CV005]

LOK RAJ JOSHI [1AT20CV007]
OMPRAKASH PATEL [1AT21CV011]
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The successful completion of any task will be incomplete without complementing those who made it
possible and whose guidance and encouragement made my effort successful.

At the very outset, we would like to be highly grateful towards the college Atria Institute of Technology,
Bengaluru for providing us with the necessary help and grooming to be Bachelor of Engineering.

We express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Rajesha S, Principal, AIT, Bengaluru for providing the required
faculty.

We express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Surendra H J, Professor & Head, Department of Civil Engineering
for his support & encouragement.

We also express our sincere thanks to Mr. Sachin K G, Project Coordinator for his support &
encouragement.

We express our sincere thanks to my guide Mr. Sachin K G, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil
Engineering for his support in finding out sponsors, guidance and giving me an opportunity to work on this
topic.

We also extend my sincere thanks to other faculty members of Civil Engineering department and non-
teaching and my friends for their support and encouragement.

JHAMAN SINGH RANA[1AT20CV005]

LOK RAJ JOSHI [1AT20CV007]
OMPRAKASH PATEL [1AT21CV011]
 ABSTRACT

The enormous development on production of vehicles resulted in growing amount of waste rubber
tyre. Consequently, waste rubber is considered as one of the most waste materials that might cause
environmental problems. Incorporating tyre rubbers in concrete pavement has been widely studied
as one of the promising and sustainable solutions to these current environmental problems. This
paper explored the effect of replacing coarse aggregate with waste tyre rubber on respective
percentages. Three replacement ratios are used to substitute the coarse aggregate in concrete of
5%, 10% and 15% and comparing the compressive strength between Normal concrete cubes and
partial replacement of waste rubber tyre cubes.
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 General………………………………………………………………………………………..1

2 LITERATURE REVIEW…………………………………………………...……6

3 MATERIALS

3.1 Cement……………………………………………………………………………………….…………..……12
3.2 Aggregates………………………………………………………………………………….……………….…12
3.3 Water ……………………………………………………………………………………….…………………14
3.4 Waste rubber tire ………………………………………………………………………….……….………….15

4 EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES FOR TESTING OF MATERIALS

4.1 Raw materials…………………………………………………………………………….…………...………16

4.2 Test Procedures for Materials

4.2.1 Specific gravity of cement………………………………………………………………………………16
4.2.2 Fineness Test on Cement…………………………………………………….…………………….……17
4.2.3 Standard Consistency of Cement…………………………………………………………………….…18
4.2.4 Specific Gravity of Fine Aggregates…………………………………………….….……………….….19
4.2.5 Particle Size Distribution of Fine Aggregate…………………………………………………………...20
4.2.6 Specific Gravity of Coarse Aggregates………………………………………………………….……...21
4.3 RESULTS ON MATERIALS

4.3.1 Cement…………………………………………………………………………………………………...…22
4.3.2 Fine aggregates …………………………………………………………………………………….………22
4.3.3 Coarse aggregates………………………………………………………………………………….……….22

5 MIX DESIGN FOR M30 GRADE

5.1 Mix design…………………………………………………………………………..…………………………23

5.2 Mixing of concrete……………………………………………………………………………………….……26
5.3 Casting of concrete cubes………………………………………………………………….…………………..26
5.4 Curing …………………………………………………………………………………………………………27
5.5 Compressive strength of cubes………………………………………………………...………………………27

6 RESULT AND CONCLUSION

6.1 Test for compressive strength of concrete cubes………………………………………………….………….28

6.2 Test results on normal concrete…………………………………………………………….…………………29
6.3 Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………..……………………….31

7 REFERENCES…………………………………………..………………………32
 LIST OF FIGURES

1.1 Burning of Tyre……………………………………………………………........................................................2

1.2 Cutting of unused rubber Tyre…...…………………………………………………………………..…………3
4.1 Conical Flask for fineness test…………………………………………………………………………...……17
4.2 Is Sieve 90 Microns……………………………………………………………………………………………18
4.3 Vicat Apparatus………………………………………………………………………………………………..19
4.4 Pycnometer…………………………………………………………………………………………………….20
4.5 Is Sieves………………………………………………………………………………………………………..21
5.1 Casting of concrete Cubes……………………………………………………………………………………..27
5.2 Curing………………………………………………………………………………………………………….27
6.1 CTM for compressive strength test……………………………………………………………………………28
6.2 Graph of compressive strength of normal concrete N/mm²………………………………..………………….27
7.3 Graph of compressive strength of cubes after partial replacement with waste rubber N/mm²………………28

LIST OF TABLES

3.1 Grading of fine aggregates (is 383-1972) percentage passing for fine aggregate……………………….....….13
4.1 Test results on Cement………………………………………………………………………………………...22
5.2 Test results on Fine Aggregate……………………………………………………...........................................22
5.3 Test results on Coarse Aggregate…………………………………………………...........................................22
6.1 Test results on compressive strength of normal concrete……………………………......................................29
7.2 Test results on partial replacement of waste rubber tyre pieces…………….………...………………………29