Author Login IJIRT Partner Network (IPN) Login

A LABORATORY STUDY ON THE STRENGTH IMPROVE OF EXPANSIVE SOIL TREATED WITH CALCIUM CARBIDE RESIDUE AND FLY ASH

  • Unique Paper ID: 144531
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 12
  • PageNo: 120-125
  • Abstract:
  • Locally available soils are readily available and relatively cheap, but they are often problematic and do not satisfy the required geotechnical properties. These require locally available soils with good bearing capacity and strength properties. Volume change behaviour and low bearing capacity are major problems that pose by black cotton soil to the geotechnical engineer. To improve these properties the common method followed is stabilization. Soil stabilization using industrial waste materials has been widely recommended for developing countries for the construction of various elements of pavements. Rapid industrialization also causes production of huge amount of solid waste materials whose disposal creating lot of environmental problems. Calcium carbide residue (CCR) and Fly Ash (FA) are recognized as waste products from acetylene gas and power plant production respectively. However, the application of CCR to civil engineering work is very limited, especially for soil stabilization. In order to obtain the optimum content of CCR and CCR:FA blender Standard Proctor compaction, unconfined compression test (UCC) and California bearing ratio (CBR) tests are conducted. The UCC samples are tested under different curing periods (7, 14, 21 and 28 days) and CBR tests are carried out for a curing period of 3 days. From this study, it is revealed that for mixes of BC Soil + 6% CCR and BC Soil + 8% CCR + 10% FA are considered as optimum to improve the black cotton soil for pavement construction.
email to a friend

Cite This Article

  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 12
  • PageNo: 120-125

A LABORATORY STUDY ON THE STRENGTH IMPROVE OF EXPANSIVE SOIL TREATED WITH CALCIUM CARBIDE RESIDUE AND FLY ASH

Related Articles

14 May, 2016

Experimental Analysis on the Behaviour of Lime on Pond Ash Treated Expansive Clay

Read More
Impact Factor
8.01 (Year 2024)
UGC Approved
Journal no 47859

Join Our IPN

IJIRT Partner Network

Submit your research paper and those of your network (friends, colleagues, or peers) through your IPN account, and receive 800 INR for each paper that gets published.

Join Now

Latest Publication

Archive

View More

Recent Conferences

NCSEM 2024

National Conference on Sustainable Engineering and Management - 2024 Last Date: 15th March 2024

Submit inquiry