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The most popular kind of structure, concrete, is made of cement, aggregates, water, and steel bars for reinforcement, along with an additional external strengthening ingredient. When this material is still new, its behavior differs from that of concrete that has set. Millions of raw cements, fine and coarse sand, water, and steel bars are being produced or excavated globally to fulfill the increasing demand of the building industry. Concrete technology is the study and research of the characteristics of concrete at various stages of its use. Concrete is used for all load-bearing structures because it can support large loads with ease. Various types of cement, including OPC, PPC, and Rapid Hardening Cement, are utilized in everyday construction projects. Recycling materials is a very old concept; the Romans used the materials from their damaged artwork to make new works of art. 500 kilograms of C&D trash are produced annually on average per person. A target of reusing between 50 and 90 percent of this garbage has been established by many countries. Recycled coarse and fine aggregates are mostly found in construction sites, RMC plants, and the wrecking sites of historic buildings, as well as in the wake of frequent natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. The majority of waste recycled aggregates come from brick and concrete masonry and are intended for use in construction of the same kind. Due to its massive global production, sugarcane is the largest crop. It is the primary source of sugar generation and is also used in the production of several alcoholic beverages, including cachaca and rum, as well as in the bioethanol industry. Sugarcane stalks are used to make sugar juice, often known as sugar syrup. After extracting all of the sugarcane juice, a large amount of moist bagasseroughly 30% to 34% of the sugarcane massis left over. When silicon metal, particularly ferrosilicon alloys, is generated, silica dust is electrostatically seized and soothed by gasses released by electric arcs or alloys. This process produces silica fume. More than 80% of this material is non-crystalline silica with a diameter of 0.01 to 0.3 microns, which is 50100 times smaller than cement particles. The current study examined the effects of substituting 15%, 30%, and 45% of the raw coarse aggregates with recycled coarse aggregates, and the 5%, 10%, and 15% of bagasse ash and silica fumes in cement for concrete M25. Since replacement concrete mixes produced better outcomes, the general suggestion is that the BRC2, or concrete containing 10% bagasse ash, 10% of silica fumes and 30% of recycled aggregates is the optimum concrete mix.

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