Enhancement of Engineering Characteristics of Soil Using Jute Geotextile

Natural fibres such as jute were the forerunners of the man-made fibres used for centuries for making ropes and formanufacturing burlaps, sacks, hessian and carpet backing. But the use of jute products in civil engineering is relativelywidespread for such purposes as sand-bags for concrete curing, soil enrichment and protection. This research is concerned with the stabilization of fine sand using jute geotextile as admixture. The work is regarding, how to make fine sand which has low compressive strength and thus has nil cohesion and high permeability, useful for construction of embankments for all engineering works and improves the engineering characteristics of soil. This analysis discusses the potential of fine sand stabilization with jute is cut into approximately 20mm lengths as admixture. Present work has been taken up by addition of 20mm jute pieces as admixture. The varying percentage 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2% of jute pieces of jute geotextile were mixed with fine sand of different densities and moisture content. All the Unconfined Compressive Strength Tests were conducted at different mix compositions of square pieces of plastic waste and fine sand of different dry densities as arrived from Standard Proctor Test. On the basis of the experiments performed, it is determined that the stabilization of fine sand using 20mm pieces of jute as admixture improves the strength characteristics of the fine sand so that it becomes usable as construction of embankment.