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Stabilization of marine clay using biomass silica-rubber chips mixture

Marto, A. and Jahidin, M. R. and Aziz, N. A. and Kasim, F. and Mohd Yunus, N. Z. (2016) Stabilization of marine clay using biomass silica-rubber chips mixture. In: International Engineering Research and Innovation Symposium, IRIS 2016, 24 November 2016 through 25 November 2016, Melaka; Malaysia.

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Abstract

Marine clay is found widely along the coastal area and had caused expensive solutions in the construction of coastal highways. Hence, soil stabilization was suggested by some consultant to increase the strength of this soil in order to meet the highway construction requirement and also to achieve the specification for the development. Biomass Silica (BS), particularly the SH85 as a non-traditional stabilisation method, has been gaining more interest from the engineers recently. Rubber chips (RC), derived from waste rubber tyres, are considered 'green' element and had been used previously in some geotechnical engineering works. This paper presents the effect of using BS and RC as a mixture (BS-RC mixture), to increase the strength of marine clay for highway construction. Samples of marine clay, obtained from the West Coast Expressway project at Teluk Intan, Perak, were oven dried and grind to fine-grained sized. The marine clay was mixed with 9 % by weight proportion of BS- RC; that were 8%-l% and 7%-2%, respectively. For comparison purposes the result of BS-RC was compared to the result of stabilization by using 9% BS only. Laboratory tests were then carried out to determine the Atterberg limits and compaction characteristics of the untreated and treated marine clay. The Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) of the untreated and treated marine clays, compacted at the optimum moisture content was later obtained. The treated marine clay was tested at 0, 3 and 7 days curing periods. The results show that the Plasticity Index of BS-RC treated marine clay was lower than the untreated marine clay. From the UCS test results, it is shown that BS-RC mixtures had significantly improved the strength of marine clay. With the same percentage of 9% BS-RC, the increased of BS from 7% to 8% increased the UCS further to about six times more than untreated marine clay soils in 7 days curing period. The strength gained by using BS-RC at 8%-1% is slightly below the strength by using 9% BS only. From the experimental results, it is shown that BS, in the form of SH85, admixed with rubber chips could significantly improve the strength of marine clay soils.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:Clay, Compressive strength, Curing, Engineering research, Geotechnical engineering, Highway engineering, Mixtures, Road construction, Rubber, Silica, Soil mechanics, Soils, Stability, Transportation
Subjects:T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:Civil Engineering
ID Code:72945
Deposited By: Muhammad Atiff Mahussain
Deposited On:29 Nov 2017 23:58
Last Modified:29 Nov 2017 23:58

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