Application of Waste Foundry Sand

in Concrete

Mini project submitted

By
S.GURAVAIAH(R141147)

Under the guidance of K.HEMLANAIK sir

 CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION
2.WASTE FOUNDRY SAND
3.SIGNIFICANCE
4.PROPERTIES OF FOUNDRY SAND
5.DISCUSSION OF THE RESULTS
6.CONCLUSION
 INTRODUCTION
● The every rising functional requirement of the
structures and the capacity to resist aggressive
elements has necessitated developing new
materials and composite to meet the echonomy

● The environmental factors,pressure of utilizing

waste materials from industries have also been
athe major contributionary factors in new
developement of concrete technology.
 WASTE FOUNDRY SAND
● Waste foundry sand (WFS) is a byproduct from
the production of both ferrous and nonferrous
metal castings.
● Metal foundries use large amounts of sand as
part of the metal casting process.
● Foundries successfully recycle and reuse the
sand many times in a foundry.
● When the sand can no longer be reused in the
foundry, it is removed from the foundry and is
termed “foundry sand.”
● There are two basic types of foundry sand available,
green sand and chemically-bonded sands.

● Green sand consists of of 85-95% silica, 0-12% clay,

2-10% carbonaceous additives, such as sea coal,
and 2-5% water.

● The water adds plasticity. The carbonaceous

additives prevent the “burn-on” or fusing of sand
onto the casting surface.And silica sand meadium
resist high temprature during casting.
 SIGNIFICANCE
● There are more than 5,000 foundry units in India.
● sands may inhibit the soil microbial activity,
whereas organics in the sands may slightly
promote the microbial activity
● The results of this study indicated that the waste
foundry sands may pose considerable threat to
the environment when improperly disposed.

● We can reduce improper disposal by using it for

construction like embankments and concrete
work etc..
 PROPERTIES
Physical Characteristics:
● Foundry sand is typically
sub-angular to rounded in
shape.
● After being used in the
foundry process, a
significant number of sand
agglomerations form. When
these are broken down, the
shape of the individual sand
grains is apparent.
● Green sands are typically black, or grey.

● chemically bonded sand is typically a medium tan or

off-white colour
 Discussion of Results
● Concrete contains waste foundry sand as a partial
replacement of fine aggregate is tested.
● The waste foundry sand is replaced in the range of
0%, 20%, 40% and 60% by weight of fine aggregate.
● Concrete is composed of cement, coarse aggregate,
fine aggregate, waste foundry sand and water.
● After curing for 24hrs the samples were demoulded
and subjected to compressive strength test and
tensile split test for 7,14 and 28 days.
● The tensile strength of concrete is approximately
10% of its compressive strength.

● Tensile splitting strength tests of concrete block

specimens were determined as per IS: 5816-1999.

● After curing of 28 days the specimens were tested

for tensile strength using a calibrated compression
testing machine of 2000 KN capacity
 CONCLUSION
● Based on the above study we made the following
properties and behaviours.

● Compressive strength increases on increase in

percentage of waste foundry sand as compare to
traditional concrete.

● Split tensile strength decrease on increase in

percentage of waste foundry sand.
 CONCLUSIONS
● Use of waste foundry sand in concrete reduces the
production of waste through the metal industries.

● The problems of disposal and maintenance cost of

land filling is reduced.

● Application of this study leads to develop in

construction sector and innovative building
material.The concrete produced is echonomical.
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