Soft Soil Stabilization Using of Waste Ceramics as an Economic Stabilisation Technique

Authors

  • Elaf Jasim Mahan , Ibtehaj Taha Jawad

Abstract

Environments such as Air, Water and Soil are suffering from many issues, in addition to that soil
has other problems especially soft soil problems. And either contaminated soils problems or soft soil issues
should be minimized. On the other hands, Iraq is one of the countries that produce high quantities of tiles and
as well-known each production process has a by-product, tiles produce high amounts of ceramic dust waste
materials. The main objective of this research is to investigate the reflection of waste ceramic dust on the
physical and chemical characteristics of the intact clay soil. Geotechnical tests for example (Atterberg limits
and compaction) tests were conducted by using (1, 3, 4, 9 and 27)% of waste ceramic dust by the weight of
dry soil. The results of experiments show a decreasing in the liquid limits, Plastic limits and Plasticity index
with increasing the ceramic dust ratio. While the increasing of the waste ceramic dust lead to increase the
maximum dry density in a positive relationship with decreasing the optimum moisture content.

Published

2020-02-28

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