USE OF STABILIZED

BLOCK IN HOUSING
PROJECT

Submitted by : Suraj Submitted to :Ganga Reddy

Chandrashekhar
Muskan oswal
Triveni

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CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CSEB
 SOIL IDENTIFICATION
 SOIL STABILIZATION
 COST EFFECTIVENESS
ADVANTAGES
CONCLUSION
REFERENCE

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INTRODUCTIO
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 A compressed earth block (CEB), also known as a pressed
earth block or a compressed soil block, is a building material
made primarily from damp soil compressed at high pressure to
form blocks.
Compressed earth blocks use a mechanical press to form
blocks out of an appropriate mix of fairly dry inorganic
subsoil, non-expansive clay and aggregate.
 If the blocks are stabilized with a chemical binder such as
Portland cement they are called compressed stabilized
earth block(CSEB) stabilized earth block(SEB).
Typically, around 3,000 psi (21 MPa) is applied in
compression, and the original soil volume is reduced by about
half.
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Procedure for Making CSEB
(Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks)

• Collected the soil sample.

• Test for soil classification.
•  Various mixing of ingredients/stabilizers with clay soliand
sand varies in percentage of mixing.
• The various mixes are placed in the proposed brick mold.
• Th e mold is compressed in a process (manually
compress).
• The n it is dried for 28 days.
• Strength determinati on on UTM/CTM.

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 Soil
Identification
Soil identification can be performed with sensitive
analyses. The main points were examined as:
 Grain size distribution to know quality of each grain
size.
 Plasticity characteristics to know the quality and
properties of each of the binders.
 Sample Details : Red Earth
 Plastic Limit =56%
 Liquid Limit=66%
 Plasticity Index = 10 =Slightly plastic
 LI= 1, hence the remoulded soil is at the liquid limit and
it has un-drained shear strength of about 2KPa.
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Sandy soil being mixed with 5%-7% cement

Clay soil being mixed with 7%-10%

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 LOCAL PRODUCTION OF CSEB MACHINES

Types of press Cost of press(Rs) Local production Time of

potential manufacturi
ng
Normal press 50000 Yes 10-15days
Interlocking press 60000 Yes 10-15days

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 CSEB Production capacity per
day

Types of Sizes of SCEB No of Daily No of Compressiv

SCEB SCEB/h output/m labour/ma e strength
o use a chine c hine

Standard 12*6*6 2100 225 2 550 psi

Block
Interlockin 12*8*6 1550 190 2 550 psi
g

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 Soil
stabilisation
 Many stabilizers can be used. Cement and lime are
the most common ones.
 The selection of a stabilizer will depend upon the
soil quality and the project requirements.
 Cement will be preferable for sandy soils and to
achieve quickly a higher strength.
 Lime will be rather used for very clayey soil,but will
take a longer timetoharden and to give strong
blocks
The average stabilizer proportion
MINIMUM AVERAGE is rather low:
MAXIMUM
Cement Stabilization 3% 5% No technical maximum

Lime Stabilization 2% 6% 10%

These low percentages are part of the cost effectiveness

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 COST
EFFECTIVENESS
CSEB are most the time cheaper than fired bricks.
 This will vary from place to place and specially according
to the cement cost.
 The cost break up of a 5 % stabilized block would depend on
the local context. It would be within these figures, for
manual equipment with an AURAM press 3000:
 Labour: 20 - 25 %
 Soil & sand: 20 - 25%
 Cement: 40 - 60 %
 Equipment: 3 - 5 %
 The strength of a block is related to the level of compression
and to the quantity of stabiliser

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 This implies that to reduce the cost of a block one
should try to reduce the quantity of cement but not the
cost of the labour with unskilled people.
 One should also not cut down the cost of the press with
cheap quality machines, which would not last and
would not give strong blocks.

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 ADVANTAGES OF
CSEB
 A local material
 A bio-degradable
material
 An adapted material
 A transferable technology
 Limiting deforestation
 Management of resources
 A job creation opportunity
 Market opportunity
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Cost efficiency
Durable
Non-Toxic
Fire and pest
resistant
Reducing imports

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 Conclusion
CSEBs are eco-friendly and as these blocks are
un-burnt products, during production no coal or
burning material is needed. So, it does not produce any
harmful gases during production.
 Without utilization of stabilizer, the strength of CSEB
obtained is very less or negligible. So, mixing of
stabilizer with sand and clay in CSEB is must.
 Easy and simple technology
 Creates employment opportunities
 Reduce dependency on import of bricks
 Making house affordable
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REFERENCE

CSEB building construction

 Low cost housing projects

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