A Study on Performance of Carbon Based Nano-enabled Cement Composites and Concrete

With the population expanding earth’s limited resources have to be spread thin to meet our society’s demand for sustainable development. Concrete consumes earth’s finite resources infinitely but one of the certain and assured ways of promoting its sustainability is by improving its long-term durability. Contemporary research has shown that unconventional nanomaterials have the capability to address this issue. Our paper describes that with small addition of nanomaterials like Carbon Nanotubes (CNT) in optimized quantities the properties of concrete changes considerably. As cement hydration continues for years, it is observed that as the proportion of CNTs increased from the optimized level to its next level b.w.c, the mechanical strength of the cement composites gradually improved from 28 days to 1 year, with the addition of more Carbon Nanotubes. Also the durability properties of nano-enabled CNT added concrete showed vast improvements over the ages, when compared over ordinary control concrete or M-40 grade control concrete.