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@article{202435,
        author = {Mr Pathan Pirmahamad Jamal and Prof S R Joshi},
        title = {Utilization of Agricultural Residues for Strengthening Black Cotton Soil in Pavement Subgrade Applications},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {6630-6634},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=202435},
        abstract = {The design Pavement on black cotton soil has always been a difficult task for the engineers as the pavement resting on black cotton soil cracks without any warning. Black cotton soil is found in M.P., Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh in our country. Soil proportion changes depending upon water content, density, etc. While making subgrade of a road or highway we need to compact the soil and when it requires to raise the height of pavement such as bridge, flyover then soil stabilization plays an important role. Shear strength of soil should be optimum to bear the load. As we know expansive soil has property of swelling when moisture content increases, water can infiltrate easily through it, its volume changes with respect to water content and after evaporation it shrinks. The properties of black cotton soil can be modified by stabilizing the soil with the use of additives or by mechanical means. In general people use lime and cement material for stabilizing black cotton soil. In this project an attempt has been made to stabilize the soil using Agricultural waste. The future experimental work is based on adding different percentages of agricultural waste in soil and taking tests like Liquid limit, Plastic limit, C.B.R. test etc.},
        keywords = {Agricultural waste, Ground improvement, Lateritic soil, Black cotton soil},
        month = {May},
        }