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Soil Stabilization using Plastic Fibre

Author(s):

Jananipriya. B , VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE; Akshaya. P, VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE; Chandramohan. M, VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE; Gopinath. G, VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE; Vaithiyanathan. G, VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Keywords:

Soil Stabilization, Compaction, Polypropylene, Unconfined Compressive Strength, Specific gravity, Maximum dry density

Abstract

Rapid urbanization and globalization results in the large amount of generation of plastic in the world. In recent years the annual consumption of plastic waste in the world has increased nearly 100 million tonnes. The soil stabilization technique is used effectively in order to decrease the waste quantities from industries, producing useful materials from non-useful waste materials. The plastic strips which are obtained from waste plastic are randomly mixed with the soil. A series of tests such as proctor compaction and unconfined compression strength test (UCS) were conducted on the soil by adding different percentage 0 %, 0.5 %, 1.0 %, 1.5 %, 2.0 % of plastics strips. The UCS and proctor compaction test results indicated that the addition of plastic strips to the soil increased the strength and maximum dry density.

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Paper ID: IJSRDV6I20207
Published in: Volume : 6, Issue : 2
Publication Date: 01/05/2018
Page(s): 219-221

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