“Advancement in Self Compacting Concrete: A Review of Last Few Decades”

Abstract

The development of self-compacting concrete started in Japan in the middle of 1980’s with an aim to reduce
durability problem in complicated and densely reinforced concrete structure due to lack of skilled labors and poor
communication between designer and the construction engineer. The concept of Self compacting concrete (SCC) was
purposed for the first time by the Prof. Hajimeokamura (1997), but the prototype was first developed in 1988 in Japan by
Professor Ozawa (1989) at university of Tokyo. The last few decades is considered to be the era of the self-compacting
concrete and thousands of research has been carried out. In India, the development of concrete possessing selfcompacting properties is still very much in its initial stages. Over the past couple of years, few attempts were made using
still the cost of production of such concrete is a challenging issue for the present concrete engineers. Hence, in the
present paper an attempt is done to understand the effect of various types of mineral and chemical admixture (Rice husk
ash, Meta kaolin) on the properties of SCC concrete with the cost by benefit analysis for the same. It is a basically an
attempt to sum up the effect of various ingredients on the concrete by doing extensive literature review.