ISSN 2319-5347, ISI Impact Factor: 0.763

VOLUME 05 NO. 02 APRIL 2016:

Title:          Study on the behavior of soft soil reinforced with rice husk ash
Authors:    Mahmudul Hasan Mizan, Md. Mahmudul Hasan
Abstract:  Soil stabilization has become a major issue in Construction engineering and the researches regarding the effectiveness of using industrial wastes are rapidly increasing. This industrial waste when exposed to the opening causes environmental hazards along with depositional problems. Keeping this in view agricultural waste materials like Rice husk ash (RHA) are now used as admixture to stabilize soil which save the construction cost considerably. This study demonstrates the effects of rice husk ash (RHA) and the mixture of rice husk ash (RHA) and cement on the geotechnical properties of soil. The addition of rice husk ash (RHA) and cement were found to improve the engineering properties of the construction site soil in stabilized forms specifically compaction characteristics, shear strength characteristics, compressive strength and California bearing ratio (CBR). Optimum moisture content, shear strength, CBR value increases with the addition of mixture of RHA and cement and maximum dry density decreases. Unconfined compressive strength has great influence with the addition of RHA and mixture of RHA and cement.

Keywords:  RHA, Compaction Characteristics, Shear Strength, CBR, UC Strength.
Pages:         63-67

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