Abstract

Soil serves as the primary foundation for all types of structures. It makes up the top layer of the Earth’s surface and consists of a mixture of minerals, organic substances, water, air, and various living organisms Beyond its ecological role, soil has immense engineering significance and has been utilized in construction since ancient times. It is used in many ways, including: Building materials where soil is used to make building materials like cement and brick. Bases for structures in which soil is used to create the bases of structures like bridges, highways, dams, culverts, tunnels, and retaining walls.  In this project work, two different types of soils such as are taken and various basis tests such as plastic limit, liquid limit, shrinkage limit, sieve analysis and specific gravity are carried out to analysis its characteristics. From the test result, it was found that the two types of soil are good is most of the characters and shows a sunlight variation in all its test value which is acceptable as per the codal provisions.

Keywords: Soil, Specific gravity, sieve analysis, Plastic limit, liquid limit, Shrinkage limit

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1. Junjie Gu, M. Hesham El Naggar,Gang Liu, Tengfei Wang (2024) ‘Intrinsic compressibility of laterites and lateritic soils’, Canadian Geotechnical Journal. (In press).
2. G.H. Pupulewatte, N.U.S. Dissanayake, D.T. Jayawardana, B.M. Gunathilake, A.V.P.S. Buddhima(2023) ‘Development of characteristics of lateritesoil-based mixtures for the removal of nitrate from drinking water’, Desalination and Water Treatment, V316, pp121–135.
3. Hrithik Malgotra, Plaban Deb (2023) ‘Characterization of black cotton soil by using granulated blast furnace slags’, Materials Today: Proceedings. (In press).
4. H. Vamsi Krishna, B. Sai Santosh, B.H.S. Sai Prasanth (2023)’ Prediction of UCS and CBR of a stabilized Black-cotton soil using artificial intelligence approach: ANN’, Materials Today: Proceedings. (In press).
5. IS 2720-8: Methods of test for soils, Part 8: Determination of water content-dry density relation using heavy compaction, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), New Delhi.
6. Phanikumar, B.R., Sharma, R.S., 2004. Effect of fly ash on engineering properties of expansive soils. J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng. 130, 764–767 ASCE.
7. Sujit Kumar Dash, MonowarHussain, “Stabilization of Soils”.714/ Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE/June 2012.
8. Abdi, M.R., Parsapajouh, A., Arjomand, M.A., 2008. Effects of random fiber inclusion on consolidation, hydraulic conductivity, swelling, shrinkage limit and desiccation cracking of clays. Int. J. Civil Eng. 6 (4), 284–293.
9. Cokca, E., 2001. Use of class C fly ashes for the stabilization of an expansive soil. J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., 127. ASCE568–5.
10. BahaVuralKok,HakanColak.(2011) “Laboratory comparison of thecrumb rubber and SBS modified bitumen and hot mix asphalt”, Construction and Building Materials. pp. 3204-3212.
11. A.Aisen, F.K.Hymore and R.O.Ebewele.(2006) “Application of ground tyre rubbers in asphalt concrete pavements”,Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences, vol 13, pp. 333-338.
12. M.M. Balaha, A.A. Badawy and M. Hashish. (2007) “Effect of using ground waste tire rubber as fine aggregate on the behaviour of concrete mixes” Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences,vol 14, pp. 427-435.

Abstract

Soil serves as the primary foundation for all types of structures. It makes up the top layer of the Earth’s surface and consists of a mixture of minerals, organic substances, water, air, and various living organisms Beyond its ecological role, soil has immense engineering significance and has been utilized in construction since ancient times. It is used in many ways, including: Building materials where soil is used to make building materials like cement and brick. Bases for structures in which soil is used to create the bases of structures like bridges, highways, dams, culverts, tunnels, and retaining walls.  In this project work, two different types of soils such as are taken and various basis tests such as plastic limit, liquid limit, shrinkage limit, sieve analysis and specific gravity are carried out to analysis its characteristics. From the test result, it was found that the two types of soil are good is most of the characters and shows a sunlight variation in all its test value which is acceptable as per the codal provisions.

Keywords: Soil, Specific gravity, sieve analysis, Plastic limit, liquid limit, Shrinkage limit

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1. Junjie Gu, M. Hesham El Naggar,Gang Liu, Tengfei Wang (2024) ‘Intrinsic compressibility of laterites and lateritic soils’, Canadian Geotechnical Journal. (In press).
2. G.H. Pupulewatte, N.U.S. Dissanayake, D.T. Jayawardana, B.M. Gunathilake, A.V.P.S. Buddhima(2023) ‘Development of characteristics of lateritesoil-based mixtures for the removal of nitrate from drinking water’, Desalination and Water Treatment, V316, pp121–135.
3. Hrithik Malgotra, Plaban Deb (2023) ‘Characterization of black cotton soil by using granulated blast furnace slags’, Materials Today: Proceedings. (In press).
4. H. Vamsi Krishna, B. Sai Santosh, B.H.S. Sai Prasanth (2023)’ Prediction of UCS and CBR of a stabilized Black-cotton soil using artificial intelligence approach: ANN’, Materials Today: Proceedings. (In press).
5. IS 2720-8: Methods of test for soils, Part 8: Determination of water content-dry density relation using heavy compaction, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), New Delhi.
6. Phanikumar, B.R., Sharma, R.S., 2004. Effect of fly ash on engineering properties of expansive soils. J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng. 130, 764–767 ASCE.
7. Sujit Kumar Dash, MonowarHussain, “Stabilization of Soils”.714/ Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, ASCE/June 2012.
8. Abdi, M.R., Parsapajouh, A., Arjomand, M.A., 2008. Effects of random fiber inclusion on consolidation, hydraulic conductivity, swelling, shrinkage limit and desiccation cracking of clays. Int. J. Civil Eng. 6 (4), 284–293.
9. Cokca, E., 2001. Use of class C fly ashes for the stabilization of an expansive soil. J. Geotech. Geoenviron. Eng., 127. ASCE568–5.
10. BahaVuralKok,HakanColak.(2011) “Laboratory comparison of thecrumb rubber and SBS modified bitumen and hot mix asphalt”, Construction and Building Materials. pp. 3204-3212.
11. A.Aisen, F.K.Hymore and R.O.Ebewele.(2006) “Application of ground tyre rubbers in asphalt concrete pavements”,Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences, vol 13, pp. 333-338.
12. M.M. Balaha, A.A. Badawy and M. Hashish. (2007) “Effect of using ground waste tire rubber as fine aggregate on the behaviour of concrete mixes” Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences,vol 14, pp. 427-435.