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In India, road network is the world's second largest. It is 3.5 million km including both paved and unpavedsurfaces. The major types of materials are used to construct the roads in the country are, bitumen and concrete.Concrete is a superior material in many counts, a very small share is used for road construction. Due to increase ofutility of cement, many environmental problems are faced at the National level. It is necessary to think about thematerials which can be used as alternative in the concrete. The use of specific amount of Alccofine in replacement ofcement provides better strength. It is very much essential to develop profitable building materials from Alccofine. Theinnovative use of Alccofine in concrete making formula as a cement replacement material was tested as an alternative totraditional concrete in the present study. To find optimum dosage of Alccofine, Cement is replaced by Alccofine in therange of 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% & 30% by weight for M-40 grade concrete. Concrete mixtures were produced,tested and compared in terms of compressive and flexural strength with the conventional concrete. These tests werecarried out to evaluate the mechanical properties for 7, 14 and 28 days. The present study is focused on investigating thebehaviour of concrete while replacing Alccofine in different proportion in concrete.

Bansari Navinchandra Dave, Prof. Nikhil G Raval, Prof. Nilesh Hapaliya, Dr. Jayesh Pitroda, “A Study on effect of Alccofine on the performance of the Concrete for Rigid Pavement Design and Analysis by using Kenpave Software”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 276-285, January 2016.