Physical-Mechanical Properties Of Concrete Mixtures Incorporating Sugar Cane Molasses.

The rapid industrial growth has led to the need to create new construction materials from organic wastes and agroindustrial, by-products in order to reduce environmental impacts and raw materials, generating an ecological material. The objective of this article is to determine the physical-mechanical properties of concrete mixtures incorporating sugar cane molasses as an alternative material to retarding and plasticizing agents in dosages of 0% to 1%, in order to determine the optimum dosage of this material to be used as a retarding and plasticizing additive in concrete. The results of mixing the material indicated that at dosages of 0.4% and 1% molasses, results similar to those of a comercial, plasticizer are achieved, In addition, it was identified that the incorporation of molasses causes a substantial improvement in the strength of the concrete. From the results obtained, it is evident that the use of molasses as a plasticizing and retarding agent is a viable alternative considering the physical and mechanical properties of the material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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