The Asian Review of Civil Engineering (TARCE) is a half-yearly international peer-reviewed journal of Civil Engineering. One of the objectives of this journal is to disseminate knowledge on various research issues connected with the topics include, but are not limited to:

Coastal engineering
Construction engineering
Earthquake engineering
Environmental engineering
Geotechnical engineering
Water resources engineering
Materials engineering
Structural engineering
Surveying
Transportation engineering
Municipal or urban engineering

In construction industry and in urban areas, many concrete structures like buildings, bridges and roads are razed after a period of time into their service life for purpose of replacement and also due to natural disasters like earthquakes, cyclones and man made disasters like war and bombing. Due to increasing construction activities and infrastructure development works the sources of basic construction materials are depleting. It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain good quality aggregate at reasonable prize. The increase in cost is mainly due to the cost of transportation and availability of only few quarries. Considering the present situation one of the alternate solutions would be to reuse the demolished concrete. This work deals with an experimental investigation on the effectiveness of replacement of natural aggregates by recycled aggregates in different percentages like 0%, 5%, 15%, 25%, 35%, 45%, 55%, 65%, 75%, 85% and 95% on the strength characteristics of concrete. Experiments were carried out to determine compressive uplifting tensile and flexural strength of concrete with different percentage of recycled concrete aggregate and to compare them with those of concrete made with conventional course aggregate.