Annamacharya Institute Of Technology And Sciences

A SEMINAR ON
NANO CONCRETE
CIVIL ENGINEERING

PRESENTING BY
M.V.SRAVAN KUMAR REDDY
12701A0147
 CONTENTS
• Introduction
• What is Nano?
• Why nanotechnology for concrete?
• What is Nano concrete?
• Nano materials
• Results
• scope
• Advantages
• Dis – Advantages
• conclusion
 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 it’s been required to
improve its quality.
• Improving concrete properties by addition
of Nano particles have shown significant
improvement than conventional concrete.
What is Nano?

The word “Nano” comes from Greek and it means “very

small”.
•1nm=0.000000001m.

•500000 smaller than a pen line.

•50000 smaller than a hair.
•100 smaller than the DNA molecule.
Nano scale:
 Why nanotechnology for concrete?

• Improves the material’s bulk properties.

• Ability to control or manipulate materials at the atomic scale.
NANOSCALE ATTACK ON ASR (ALKALI SILICATE
REACTION)
• To obtain thinner final products and 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
Nano materials are defined as a set of substances where at least one
dimension is less than approximately 100 nanometres. Nanomaterial's
are of interest because at this scale unique optical,
magnetic,electrical, and other properties emerge. These emergent
properties have the potential for great impacts in electronics,
medicine, and other fields.
Some of main Nano materials used in concrete:

•Carbon Nanotubes.
•Nano-silica.

•Polycarboxylates.
 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
• It 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%.
 POLYCARBOXYLATES

• Polycarboxylates or polymer based concrete admixtures are

High Range Water Reducing admixture (HRWR).
• low dosage-reduce water as much as high dosage of
conventional admixtures.
• Higher dosage-produce Self Compacting Concrete (SCC).
• This admixture type is very suitable for underwater anti-
washout concrete.
POLYCARBOXYLATES
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in Germany

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 RESULTS
• Resistance to compression - 40 to 90MPa in 1 day.
Resistance to compression from 70 a 100 MPa (or more)
in 28 days.
• Produces high resistance even with low addition (1 to 1.5
% of the cements weight) and gives self compacting
characteristics with higher proportions (2.5 %).
• Meets the norms of environmental protection.

• 70% less use of additives as traditional silica, super

plasticizers or traditional fibres.
 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 nano-
carbontubes 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.
ADVANTAGES OF NANO
CONCRETE
• Cessation of contamination caused by micro silica solid
particles.
• Lower cost per building site.
• Concrete with high initial and final compressive and tensile
strengths.
• Concrete with good workability.
• Cessation of super plasticizing utilization.
• Cessation of silicosis risk.
 Dis-Advantages of Nano
concrete

• Availability of sources for producing Nano materials is less.

• For producing Nano materials there are no such equipment’s to
grain the materials up to Nano size.
• Usage of Nano materials in concrete is difficult to replace the
materials in concrete like cement.
 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.
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