scholarly journals Scheffe optimization of swelling, California bearing ratio, compressive strength, and durability potentials of quarry dust stabilized soft clay soil

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kennedy Onyelowe ◽  
George Alaneme ◽  
Clifford Igboayaka ◽  
Francis Orji ◽  
Henry Ugwuanyi ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fauziah Kasim ◽  
Aminaton Marto ◽  
Nur Amalina Abdul Rahman ◽  
Choy Soon Tan

This study presents the Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) and microstructure of clay soil stabilized with locally made Biomass Silica (BS) in the form of SH-85. Since the construction of highway on soft soil raises many problems due to its low strength, understanding about the basic characteristics of soft clay and mixed with BS, play important role for improving the strength of the soft clay. The study carried out had the specific objectives to determine engineering properties of soft clay, to investigate the UCS of soft clay treated with BS and to analyze microstructure of the soft soil treated by BS with respect to various curing periods. In this study, 30 samples of clay soil were prepared under various curing periods (0, 7, 14 and 28 days) and mixed with BS at various percentages (5 %, 7 % and 9 %). The test results show that BS can increase the strength of the clay soil. The 9% BS treated sample for 7 days curing time achieved UCS of 710 kPa. This was approximately 6 times greater than that of untreated soil strength. The highest strength was 1216 kPa at 28 days curing for soil mixed with 9% BS. The images of Scanning Electron Microscopic show that the voids of the clay would filled by the new component resulted by the reaction of BS stabilizer with the natural clay samples. This led to a continuous soil fabric resulting with stronger and denser soil.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Evi Meilisa Adhanty ◽  
Rida Respati ◽  
Norseta Ajie Saputra

Land is the foundation for construction. Foundation is the lowest part of a construction, serves to channel the load directly from the construction structure to the soil layer at underneath it. Soils that have bad properties are very unfavorable if used for something construction, especially for highway pavement. The way to increase the carrying capacity of clay soil is to do soil stabilization efforts, that is, using roadbooster as a stabilizing chemical and is expected to improve the nature of the clay and meets the requirements for road pavement materials. In this study will stabilization of the clay soil of Tumbang Rungan Village Palangka Raya with the main parameters which is used as a research reference, namely California Bearing Ratio (CBR) immersion and Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS). Based on the results of testing the clay soil of Tumbang Rungan Village, Palangka Raya, the data were obtained: Original ground immersion CBR 7.89%, CBR immersion 0% roadbooster 76%, CBR 4% immersion roadbooster 40.85%, CBR immersion 8% roadbooster 27.08%, UCS original soil 0.56 kg / cm2, UCS 0% roadbooster 7.30 kg / cm2, UCS 4% roadbooster 7.40 kg / cm2, and UCS 8% roadbooster 8.30 kg / cm2. From the CBR data, you can see the value The highest CBR is when mixing 0% roadbooster or without additional roadbooster, while the highest UCS value lies in mixing 8% roadbooster.


Author(s):  
Amirul Najmi Shukri ◽  
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Saiful Azhar Ahmad Tajudin ◽  
Ahmad Hakimi Mat Nor ◽  
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...  

Soft clay soils can be considered as problematic soil with the characteristic of high compressibility, low permeability and low shear strength. Construction on soft clay deposit may causes problem such as insufficient bearing capacity, settlement problem and instability on excavation and embankment. Ground improvement methods were used as the aimed of this study is to determine the effect of non-traditional stabilizer on the compressive strength of soft clay soils. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine effect of compressive strength of untreated and treated soft clay soil with addition of non-traditional stabilizer at different curing periods. The soil properties of soft clay soil such as compaction, Atterberg limits, and unconfined compression strength (UCS) testing methods were used to observe the performance of treated and untreated samples. The test results from the UCS indicated that once Biomass Silica and Sodium Silicate in the form of SH-85 and TX-85 have been added to the clay soil, the strength of the sample will increase with increasing percent of sodium silicate and curing periods.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 481-489
Author(s):  
D.C. Lat ◽  
I.B.M. Jais ◽  
N. Ali ◽  
B. Baharom ◽  
N.Z. Mohd Yunus ◽  
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AbstractPolyurethane (PU) foam is a lightweight material that can be used efficiently as a ground improvement method in solving excessive and differential settlement of soil foundation mainly for infrastructures such as road, highway and parking spaces. The ground improvement method is done by excavation and removal of soft soil at shallow depth and replacement with lightweight PU foam slab. This study is done to simulate the model of marine clay soil integrated with polyurethane foam using finite element method (FEM) PLAXIS 2D for prediction of settlement behavior and uplift effect due to polyurethane foam mitigation method. Model of soft clay foundation stabilized with PU foam slab with variation in thickness and overburden loads were analyzed. Results from FEM exhibited the same trend as the results of the analytical method whereby PU foam has successfully reduced the amount of settlement significantly. With the increase in PU foam thickness, the settlement is reduced, nonetheless the uplift pressure starts to increase beyond the line of effective thickness. PU foam design chart has been produced for practical application in order to adopt the effective thickness of PU foam within tolerable settlement value and uplift pressure with respect to different overburden loads for ground improvement works.


Author(s):  
Divesh Sharma

In this review article, the usage of bitumen, sisal fiber and the sisal fiber for improving the strength parameters of concrete is discussed in detail. Numerous research studies related to the usage of bitumen, sisal fiber and stone dust are studied in detail to determine the results and outcome out of it. Previous research works showed that all, these materials were enhancing the strength and durability aspects of the concrete and depending upon the research studies certain outcomes has been drawn which are as follows. The studies related to the usage of the bitumen or asphalt in concrete so as to produce bituminous concrete or asphaltic concrete, the previous research works conclude that the maximum strength was attained at 5 percent usage of the bitumen and after further usage the general compressive strength of the concrete starts declining. The previous studies related to the usage of the sisal fiber showed that with the usage of the sisal fiber in the concrete, the strength aspects of concrete were improving and the maximum strength was obtained at 1.5 percent usage of the sisal fiber and after his the strength starts declining. Further the studies related to the usage of the stone dust showed that with the usage of stone dust as partial replacement of the natural fine aggregate the compressive strength of the concrete was improving and it was conclude that with the increase in the percentage of the stone dust, the compressive strength of the concrete was increasing.


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