Soil Improvement Using Waste Marble Dust for Sustainable Development

The soils which show very high shear strength in a dry state but rapidly lose their on wetting are known as collapsible soils. Such rapid and massive loss of produces severe distress leading to extensive cracking differential settlements, instability building foundations, even collapse structures built these Waste marble dust is an industrial byproduct being produced large quantities globally poses environmental hazard. Therefore, it the utmost need look for some sustainable solution its disposal. present study focused mitigation potential CL-ML soil through physio-chemical process. sensitive wetting, warranting stabilization. (WMD) varying percentages was used admixture. study's optimization process showed that geotechnical parameters improved substantially by adding waste dust. Plasticity reduced while Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) significantly increased swelling acceptable limit. California Bearing Ratio (CBR) also exhibits considerable improvement. This appraises safe disposal hazardous safely turns into suitable material engineering purposes. Doi: 10.28991/cej-2021-03091746 Full Text: PDF