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@article{173068,
        author = {Lokesh Varshney and Mr. Ushendra Kumar},
        title = {STRENGTH PARAMETER IMPROVEMENT OF WEAK SOIL BY USING STONE QUARRY DUST},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1932-1940},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=173068},
        abstract = {The phrase "expansive soil" refers to soils with the ability to shrink and expand in response to changes in water content. Swelling will put enormous uplift stresses on foundations built on expansive soils, and these forces can cause several structural difficulties. Expansive soil is prone to large volume changes (swelling and shrinking) that are directly related to changes in moisture. So the low bearing strength and high compressibility behavior of soil can cause severe damage to subgrade. In this research the enumeration of the strength of soil by adding different types of ground improvement materials like as Stone quarry dust in order to overcome such type of damages. The California Bearing Ratio (CBR) test is to determine the stability of subgrade soil by adding Stone quarry dust separately at different percentages. The objective of this paper is to study the combined effects of Stone quarry dust with expansive soil on Maximum Dry Density (MDD), Optimum Moisture Content (OMC), Soaked CBR and Swelling pressure of expansive soil. The effects of molding water content and compaction delay, on soaked CBR of Stone quarry dust stabilized expansive soil have also been studied. CBR tests were performed with Stone quarry dust and separately at different percentage variations with the increment of 5% by weight in order to find out which one is most suitable for % stabilization of subgrade material. The results show that initially the optimum moisture content (OMC) of soil is 23% and for addition of Stone quarry dust separately up to 30%, it has become in decrease up to 19.2% respectively. Initially the CBR value of soil is 2.6%. For addition of bagasse ash up to 30% the CBR value of soil has become in increase up to 9.4 %. The UCS value initially was 18 Kg/cm2 and then addition of stone dust increases up to 20% increases UCS value up to 22 Kg/cm2 after then decreases.},
        keywords = {Expansive Soil, Stone quarry dust, Swelling Index, MDD, OMC, UCS, CBR.},
        month = {February},
        }