STRENGTH PROPERTIES OF MUF TREATED RESIDUAL SOIL

MOHAMAD ZULFIKRIE BIN MOHD DZAMRY

A report submitted in partial fulfilment of the

requirements for the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITI PERTAHANAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA

2018
1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Problem Statement 3
1.3 Objectives 4
1.4 Scope of the Study 4
1.5 Significance of the Study 5
1.6 Thesis Outline 6

2 LITERATURE REVIEW 7
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Materials 8
2.2.1 Residual soil 8
2.2.2 Melamine Urea Formaldehyde 10
2.3 Previous research 12
2.3.1 Rice Husk Ash And Cement 12
2.3.2 commercial liquid polymer 14
2.3.3 epoxy resin
15
2.3.4 SH 85 16
2.4 Soil classification 18
2.5 unconfined compressive strength test 19

3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 22
3.1 Introduction 22
3.2 Materials used 24
3.2.1 Residual Soil 24
25
3.2.3 MUF
3.3 Sample preparation 26
3.4 Laboratory test 27
3.4.1 particle size distribution 27
3.4.2 atterberg limit test
28
 3.4.3 compaction test 29
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3.4.4 UCS
3.4.5 direct shear test 31

REFERENCES
Appendices A