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Soil Stabilization
Soil Stabilization
• Mechanical Stabilization
• Soil Cement Stabilization
• Soil Lime Stabilization
• Soil Bitumen Stabilization
• Lime Fly ash Stabilization
• Lime Fly ash Bound Macadam.
Mechanical Stabilization
• This method is suitable for low volume roads
i.e. Village roads in low rainfall areas.
• This method involves the correctly
proportioning of aggregates and soil,
adequately compacted to get mechanically
stable layer
• The Basic Principles of Mechanical Stabilization
are Correct Proportioning and Effective
Compaction
Desirable Properties of Soil-
Aggregate Mix
• Adequate Strength
• Incompressibility
• Less Changes in Volume
• Stability with Variation in water content
• Good drainage, less frost Susceptibility
• Ease of Compaction.
Factors Affecting Mechanical
Stabilization
Gradation
• A well graded aggregate soil mix results in a mix
with high dry density and stability values
Properties of soil
• A mix with Plasticity Index, results poor stability
under soaking conditions. Hence it is desirable to
limit the plasticity index of the soil
Presence of Chemicals
• Presence of Salts like Sulphates and mica
are undesirable
• Presence of Calcium Chloride is Beneficial
Compaction
• Effective Compaction is desirable to
produce high density and stability mix
Soil Cement Stabilization
• Soil
• Cement
• Pulverisation and Mixing
• Compaction
• Curing
• Additives
Soil
THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Cement
A increase in cement content generally
causes increase in strength and durability
Pulverisation and Mixing
• Better the Pulverisation and degree of mixing,
higher is the strength
• Presence of un pulverised dry lumps reduces
the strength
Compaction
• By increasing the amount of compaction dry
density of the mix, strength and durability also
increases
Curing
Adequate Moisture content is to be retained in
order to accelerate the strength
Additives
There are some additives to improve properties
• Lime
• Sodium hydroxide
• Sodium Carbonate
• Calcium Chloride
Design of Soil –Cement Mix
• Soil – Cement specimens are prepared with
various cement contents in constant volumes
moulds
• The compressive strength of these specimens
tested after 7 days of curing
• A graph is plotted Cement content Vs
compressive strength
• The Cement Content Corresponding to a
strength of 17.5 kg/cm2 is taken as design
cement content
Soil Lime Stabilization
• Soil- Lime has been widely used as a
modifier or a binder
• Soil-Lime is used as modifier in high plasticity
soils
• Soil Lime also imparts some binding action
even in granular soils
Soil-Lime is effectively used in Expansive
soils with high plasticity index.
Factors affecting Properties of Soil-Lime
Lime Content
• Generally increase in lime content causes
slight change in liquid limit and considerable
increase in Plasticity index
• The rate of increase is first rapid and then
decreases beyond a certain limit
• The point is often termed as lime fixation
point
This is considered as design lime content
Type of Lime
Compaction
Compaction is done at OMC and maximum
dry density.
Curing
• The strength of soil-lime increases with curing
period upto several years. The rate of
increase is rapid during initial period
• The humidity of the surroundings also affects
the strength
Additives
• Sodium metasilicate, Sodium hydroxide and
Sodium Sulphate are also found useful
additives
Soil- Bituminous Stabilization
• The Basic Principles of this stabilization are
Water Proofing and Binding
• By Water Proofing inherent strength and
other properties could be retained
• Most Commonly used materials are Cutback
and Emulsion
• Bitumen Stabilized layer may be used as
Sub-base or base course for all the roads
Factors affecting properties of soil-bitumen
Soil
• The particle size, shape and gradation of the
soil influence the properties of the soil-bitumen
mix.
Types of Bitumen
• Cutbacks of higher grade should be preferred
• Emulsions generally gives slightly inferior
results than Cutback.
Amount of Mixing
• Increasing proportion of bitumen causes a
decrease in dry density but increases the
stability after a certain bitumen content
• The optimum bitumen content for maximum
stability generally ranges from 4 to 6%
Mixing
• Improved type of mixing with low mixing period
may be preferred
Compaction
• Effective Compaction results higher
stability and resistance to absorb water
Additives
• Anti stripping and reactive chemical
additives have been tried to improve the
properties of the mixes
• Portland cement can also be used along with
the soil bitumen
Use of Locally Available Materials
in Road Construction
Necessity
Scarcity of good quality
aggregates / soil for road
construction
Production and accumulation of
different waste materials
Disposal and environmental
problem
Economical and gainful
utilisation
Limitations of Using Waste Materials
Earth
Earth
Cover
Cover
Bottom ash or
Pond ash
Length of stretch – 54 km
Height of embankment – 3 to
4m
Fly ash utilisation – 2 Million
cubic metres
7.8 to
5.9 m
Laying of geogrids
Hanuman Setu flyover approach embankment
– Length of embankment – 90 m
– Maximum height – 5.25 m
– Embankment opened to traffic in
Feb 2001
– Polymeric friction ties used for
reinforcement
Laying of friction ties
Arrangement of
friction ties before
laying pond ash
Compaction of pond
ash using static and
vibratory rollers
Compaction using
plate vibrator near
the facing panels
Fly ash for road construction
Stabilised soil subgrade & sub-
base/base courses
– Mixing with soil reduces plasticity
characteristics of subgrade
– Addition of small percentage of lime or
cement greatly improves strength
– Leaching of lime is inhibited and
durability improves due to addition of fly
ash
– Pond ash & bottom ash can also be
stabilised
– Lime-fly ash mixture is better alternative
to moorum for construction of WBM /
WMM
Fly ash for road construction
Construction of semi-rigid/ rigid
pavements
– Lime-fly ash concrete
– Dry lean cement fly ash concrete
– Roller compacted concrete
– Fly ash admixed concrete pavements
– Lime-fly ash bound macadam
– Precast block paving
– High performance concrete
Bituminous concrete 40 mm
DBM 100 mm
BM 75 mm
WBM Gr III/WMM 75 mm
WBM Gr II/WMM 150 mm
GSB 350 mm
DLFC 100 mm
Compaction of
stabilised pond ash
using road roller
Construction of roller
compacted concrete
pavement
View of the
demonstration road
stretch after three years
Demonstration road project using fly ash
near Dadri (U.P)
A rural road near Dadri in District Gautam
Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh was selected
Total length of road – 1.4 km
Bottom ash used as embankment fill
Base course constructed using fly ash
stabilised with 8% cement
RCCP Wearing course – 10 cm thickness
RCCP Mix proportion – 1:2:4
30 per cent of cement and 20 per cent of
sand replaced with fly ash in RCCP
Shoulders – 8% cement stabilised fly ash
Demonstration road project using fly ash
near Dadri (U.P) – Typical section
Soil cover
Bottom ash
Demonstration
road project using
fly ash near Dadri
(U.P)
Stabilised base course
View of finished
surface of road
constructed
using slags at
Orissa
Processed municipal wastes