The Flexural Capacity Study of High Strength Reinforced Concrete Beams Used Palm Oil Clinkers as Additives

The palm oil clinkers has a high silica content to use in high strength concrete mixtures as additives. In the study to replace silica fume used fly ash which is made from the palm clinkres and mashing then filtered with a No. #200 sieve. The study used a tested beam with 15 × 30 × 220 cm sized with concrete strength design (f’c) 60 MPa and (w/c) is 0.25. The main reinforced used 15.8 mm diameter with yield strength (fy) 446.34 MPa and shear reinforced used 11.9 mm diameter with yield strength (fy) 381.72 MPa. The compressive strength test at 28 days of 3 pieces of control specimens showed average value of 58.77 MPa. The maximum deflection in the middle of reinforced concrete beams is 31,8 mm at the maximum load 260.00 kN. The maximum deflection that happened is bigger than theoretical deflection with with two load points 17,126 mm. While the ductility produced by high quality reinforced concrete blocks with additives of palm oil clinkers is 2.313. Strain that occurs in tensile reinforcement and shear reinforcement under maximum loading conditions is 569,911 μm and 8,967 μm. The palm oil clinkers as a substitute for silica fume in high quality reinforced concrete is effectively used to increase concrete ductility.