The reinforcement of soils is the technique that geotechnical engineers currently use to improve shear strength and bearing capacity parameters, especially when land available for execution a project not able withstand structural loads which it subjected. One techniques, used this purpose since ancient times, incorporation fibers into soil matrix; however, great interest in its study has only b...

Fine-grained soils, in particular, expansive soils are prone to cracking. For these soils swelling-shrinking potential is quite high and hence they exhibit adverse affect on overall stability of geotechnical structures. This phenomenon may also be responsible for alteration of various engineering properties of soils such as hydraulic conductivity, water and leachate penetration, solute transpor...

Expansive soils are problematic and viewed as a potential hazard for buildings structures due to swell shrink phenomena. The damaging effect of these is strongly correlated with the soil-water characteristics expansive present in shallow depth. seasonal wetting-drying cycle vital fluctuating moisture content surficial soils. As such, remain unsaturated most time high absorption capacity. Theref...

expansive soils can be found in many parts of the world particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. these soilspose a significant hazard to civil engineering structures due to its high swelling and shrinkage potential. this paperpresents the results of an experimental program developed to investigate the effect of cyclic drying and wetting on theswelling potential of expansive soils with variou...