The aim of this research study was to evaluate the influence of utilising natural polymers as a form of soil stabilization, in order to assess their potential for use in building applications.Mixtures were stabilized with a natural polymer (alginate) and reinforced with wool fibres in order to improve the overall compressive and flexural strength of a series of composite materials. Ultrasonic p...

This paper proposes the use of waste plastic bottles as a soil stabilizer. Plastics have always been difficult to dispose since they  are non-biodegradable. Today's building industry is in desperate need low-cost materials improve strength and bearing capacity. Waste can be used geotechnical qualities poor-grade soil. One most prevalent problems with recycling that it typically made up mor...

Abstract Extrusion method has been utilised in a variety of product-processing units such as metal casting and food processing. The process extruding is relatively fast reproducible, more importantly, can benchmark shear resistance extruded materials. These advantages have propelled researchers to practice the extrusion determine soil properties, e.g. Atterberg limits strength. Although mechani...

As a result of the importance foundation in engineering construction, it is important to investigate bearing capacity construction soils, this study therefore investigated soils Ayedaade Local Government Area, southwest Nigeria. To achieve aim study, soil samples were collected from selected 20 sites area. Using standard procedures, preliminary and geotechnical tests such as natural moisture co...

In recent years, the nanoscale zero-valent iron (NZVI) particles have been used successfully for the degradation of hydrocarboncompounds and remediation of other pollutants. Nevertheless, as far as we know, there is no specific study on the improvement of thegeotechnical properties of contaminated soils with hydrocarbon compounds by NZVI. This study used NZVI particles to remove gasoil in a cla...

Earth-dam failure starts with cracking in the clay core, and this is not easy to detect prevent. Therefore, swellable a feasible solution, which helps close cracks automatically based on self-healing process. The presented study utilizes experimental procedures analyze swelling behavior of fine-grained clayey soils prevent structural regarding crack generations. In regard, materials were modifi...

Abstract Soil stabilization is the modification process of one or more soil properties mechanically chemically to generate an improved material with appropriate engineering properties. Recently, methods utilizing commonly used stabilizing agents are becoming costly. On other hand, there increasing interest in identifying new green technologies that may be improve construction practices. As a re...

Perbaikan tanah dengan metode stabilisasi pada lempung ekspansif merupakan suatu hal penting yang harus dilakukan sebelum mendirikan bangunan. Tanah adalah dapat mengalami kembang susut ketika perubahan cuaca. Salah satu mencampur bahan tambah mampu merubah sifat-sifat secara kimiawi. Abu sekam padi mengandung silika dan material pozzolan hasil dari pembakaran kulit umumnya hanya dibuang tidak ...