International Journal of Engineering and Technology

The practice of using crushed brick in concrete is picking up due to its value addition to the mechanical properties of concrete. In the present experimental investigation the brick from the demolition waste is used as a coarse aggregate to study the flexural behaviour of recycled brick aggregate (RBA) concrete after exposure to high temperatures. The recycled brick aggregate is replaced to granite aggregate up to 25% by its volume to produce RBA concrete. Beam specimens of size 100mm × 100mm × 500mm were used to study the flexural strength (modulus of rupture) of both RBA concrete and granite aggregate (GA) concrete. Both the concretes were heated to desired temperatures from 100oC to 1000oC in an interval of 100oC for three hours in bogie hearth furnace. The residual flexural strengths of both heated RBA and GA concretes were presented in this research to study the performance of RBAconcrete at high temperatures. The RBA concrete performed better than that of GA concrete in flexure at high temperatures by exhibiting higher residual strength.