Effect Of Lime And Brick Dust On Compaction And Swelling Property Of Black Cotton Soil

  Nikhil Tiwari,  C.D.Prasad

The black cotton soil also known as expansive soil due to its property of swelling and shrinking with change in moisture content, this property makes the black cotton soil counterproductive for the construction of roads, designing of flexible pavements and embankments. Many researchers found that change in properties is due to reaction with water that leads to reduction in strength. To improve the behaviour and engineering properties of black cotton soil, it needs to be stabilized using suitable stabilizers. So in this present investigation lime and brick dust are used at different proportions to stabilize the black cotton soil. The proportion used in this experiment is 2% lime with 10, 20, 30, and 40% brick dust in black cotton soil& another proportion used is 4% lime with 10, 20, 30 and 40% brick dust in black cotton soil. The test conducted are, compaction test, Atterberg’s limit test and differential free swell index test. From the above test result we observed exceptionally great decrement in swelling and increment in maximum dry density of the soil.

Keywords- Soil stabilization, black cotton soil, brick dust, lime, swelling property

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1802132
Page Number(s) - 718-722
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 2 | June 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Nikhil Tiwari,  C.D.Prasad,   "Effect Of Lime And Brick Dust On Compaction And Swelling Property Of Black Cotton Soil", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 2, pp.718-722, June 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1802132.pdf