Stabilization of Expansive Soil Using Wheat Husk Ash and Granulated Blast Furnace Slag
Journal Title: Trends in Civil Engineering and its Architecture - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
The Expansive soil swells when it comes in contact with water and shrinks on drying. These soils are characterized by inherent swelling and shrinkage characteristics due to presence of Montmorillonite clay mineral, which exhibits volume change behavior under changes of moisture content. Granulated blast furnace slag(GBS) is the waste material which is generated from the steel plant after with the increase in waste disposal problems and their solutions has increased to a where the waste disposal by several methods has become a technology of its own. To minimize the impact of wastes on the environment, final disposal which offers environmentally sustainable methodology for disposing wastes on land is inevitable, after thorough analysis of behavior of soils. Hence, an attempt has been made in the investigation to overcome the disposal problems of GBS that are mixed with wheat husk ash to achieve the desired requirements. In the same way the Expansive soils are treated with different percentage of GBS and wheat husk ash to improve the engineering properties of soil. Expansive soils, well-known as Black Cotton Soils in India, occupy about one-fifth of land area of the country. Black Cotton Soils are residual deposits formed from basalt or trap rocks. Expansive soil contain significant amount of montmorillonite material. These soils are very hard in dry state but lose their load carrying capacity when once they are comes in contact with water. They have high shrinkage and swelling characteristics. In general, these expansive soils are very much keen to changes in environment. The environment includes the stress system, the chemistry of pore water in the system, the seasonal variations in ground water table with consequent changes in natural moisture content and temperature variations. These swelling and shrinkage properties have made the soil unsuitable for civil engineering purposes either as foundation or embankment material. The compaction is a mechanical process in which the densification is achieved through the expulsion of air voids at almost constant water content of the soil mass. However, densification through consolidation is primarily attributed to the gradual expulsion of pore water from the voids of the soil mass undergoing consolidation and to the increase in the effective stress on the soil mass. Stabilizing agents such as fly ash, quarry dust and rice husk ash are used for the stabilization of expansive soils. In the same way GBS is one of the materials used as stabilizing agent [1-5].
Authors and Affiliations
Khaja moniuddin, Chethan K
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