Research on civil engineering waste management for collapsible soils

Abstract

Civil engineering wastes can be widely used in field for stabilization of collapsible soil. Civil wastes can be used to improve the bearing capacity and settelementbehavior of collapsible soil in an economic construction costs and environment friendly also. The various types of civil wastes can be used to improve the overall strength of collapsible soils. The areas in India which are only prone to collapsible or black cotton soils do not have any other options. Hence civil wastes can be used to increase the overall strength of such soils. In this paper, the deatailed experimental investigation was done to study the complete use of civil wastes for collapsible and black cotton soil, also a detailed study was done to check the other ways and processes of complete use of civil and construction industry wastes. The various tests were performed with soil samples containing 0%,1%,2%,5%,10% and 15% of civil wastes with 15% of cement by mass of soil.