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A Study on Effect of Additives on Strength Characteristics of Marine Clay

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Green Buildings and Sustainable Engineering

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The availability of earth material has become a necessity for various infrastructural developments. Marine clay which is weak covers a major portion of the country. The scarcity in the availability of soil increases the need to improve engineering properties of soil before construction. An experimental study was undertaken to study the effectiveness of additives on stabilization of marine clay. The additives used in the present study include lime, copper slag and terrazyme. The geotechnical characteristics of moist marine clay and air-dried clay were investigated. Soil specimens were prepared by mixing these additives in varying percentages by dry weight of soil and compacted to maximum dry density at optimum moisture content. Unconfined compressive strength tests were carried out to determine strength characteristics of soil. The results indicate that there is an optimum content for each additive and among the additives used for the study terrazyme proves to be the best.

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  1. Civil Engineering, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kakkanad, Kochi, Kerala, India

    Anu Mathew & M. Kavitha

  2. Civil Engineering, Government Engineering College, Kannur, Kerala, India

    Nikhil Sivaramakrishnan

  3. Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, CUSAT, Kochi, Kerala, India

    Sobha Cyrus

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  1. Research and Testing Centre for Thermal Solar Systems (TZS), Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Harald Drück

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Radhakrishna G. Pillai

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India

    Manoj G Tharian

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India

    Aysha Zeneeb Majeed

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Mathew, A., Sivaramakrishnan, N., Cyrus, S., Kavitha, M. (2019). A Study on Effect of Additives on Strength Characteristics of Marine Clay. In: Drück, H., Pillai, R., Tharian, M., Majeed, A. (eds) Green Buildings and Sustainable Engineering. Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1202-1_38

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