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Proceedings of

International Conference on Advances In Civil and Structural Engineering CSE 2014

"STABILIZATION OF PEAT SOIL USING LOCALLY AVAILABLE ADMIXTURE"

M. STEPHEN SINGH NIRMALI BORTHAKUR
DOI
10.15224/978-1-63248-006-4-101
Pages
49 - 53
Authors
2
ISBN
978-1-63248-006-4

Abstract: “Peat soil has geotechnical properties such as high water content, high organic matter content, low shear strength, low bearing capacity and high compressibility which makes it as a difficult soil for construction of structures in its natural state. In Manipur, India around 4,24,000 hectares of land area is covered by peat soil, so, improvement mechanism is needed for construction of structures upon it. Industries are very less in Manipur, so commonly used stabilising industry by products like fly ash, lime etc are not economically available. Therefore, locally available admixtures such as stone dust ( S D) and kiln dust (K D) have been selected for stabilization of peat soil. Admixtures are mixed with peat soil in different seven (7) percentages: 0%, 2%, 5%, 8%, 10%, 12%, and 15%, respectively. Again the peat soil is also mixed with both stone dust (S D) and kiln dust (K D) in the ratio of (soil: stone dust: kiln dust); 94:3:3, 92:4:4, 90:5:5, 88:6:6 and 86:7:7. Proctor compaction test”

Keywords: Peat Soil, Stabilization, Admixture, Stone Dust, Kiln Dust.

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