COMPARITIVE STUDY BETWEEN SOIL STABILISATION USING BRUNT BRICK DUST AND BRUNT BRICK DUST ALONG WITH LIME

Tanveer Asif  Zerdi; Vijay Kumar; Md Mashaq Pasha; Mohd Khaliq Ahmed; Mehreen Naaz Zerdi

Volume : V, Issue : V, May - 2016

COMPARITIVE STUDY BETWEEN SOIL STABILISATION USING BRUNT BRICK DUST AND BRUNT BRICK DUST ALONG WITH LIME

Tanveer Asif Zerdi, Vijay Kumar, Md Mashaq Pasha, Mohd Khaliq Ahmed, Mehreen Naaz Zerdi

Abstract :

Soil is the essentially met in every construction. In the direction of improving the properties of soil by soil stabilization is very important in construction activity especially where black cotton soil is met. Therefore authors got inspired to do this work under consideration in order to give a eakthrough in the Civil Engineering domain. Soils are weathered products of rocks which are formed mainly because of the process called weathering. Weathering process introduces physical and chemical changes leading to the formation of coarse and fine grained soils. The former resemble the parent material namely the rock while the latter doesn�t. Majority of the clayey soils (fine grained) in the world often pose a problem of swelling and shrinkage to a geotechnical engineer while admitting and loosing water. Hence they are often referred as weak soils or soft soils in the context of their swelling and shrinkage aspects. The main reason behind this quality of clayey soils is because of different clay minerals like smectite, atapulgite, chlorite, hallosite, illite and a chief mineral namely montmorillionite. In the case of foundations the swelling and shrinkage problems induce differential settlements, and in pavements problems like potholes, cracking and undulations are created leading to discomfort for the passengers which in turn lessen the life of vehicle. The quality of clayey soils has been improved substantially with quite a lot of admixtures available either natural or artificial by lot of researchers. This paper discusses the results of the laboratory study conducted on local clayey soil and its improvement by stabilizing it with different admixtures. Very exiting results are obtained with this comparative study and hence the effective method of soil stabilization can be judged and adopted by referring conclusion of this paper.