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Remedial Measures
2.2.4 Engineering Behavior of Saw Dust Mixed Cotton Soil 17
2.2.5 Behavior of Sand and Nylon Fiber Mixed Black Cotton Soil 18
2.5.6 Soil Improvement by locally available materials: A Comparison 20
2.6 Treatment of expansive soil by stone dust 20
2.6.1 Basic Mechanism 20
2.6.2 Effect on plasticity properties 21
2.6.3 Effect on strength property 21
2.6 Treatment of expansive soil by Fly Ash 22
CHAPTER- 3 MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY USED 23-30
3.1 Materials Used 23
3.2 Index Properties of Expansive Soil 25
3.3 Composition of Fly Ash (FA) 26
3.3.1 Index and Engineering properties of Fly Ash (FA) 27
3.4 Methodology Adopted 28
CHAPTER -4TEST RESULTS 31-57
4.1 Test Results with different percentages of Stone Dust as
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admixture in expansive soil
4.1.1 Atterberg’s Limit 34
4.1.2 IS Heavy Compaction 38
4.1.3 California Bearing Ratio Test 42
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5.1.3 Free Swell Index (FSI) 59
5.1.4 California Bearing Ratio (CBR) 59
CHAPTER - 6 CONCLUSION 60-61
6.1 Conclusion 60
6.2 Scope for future study 61
REFERENCES 62-64
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LIST OF TABLES
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LIST OF FIGURE
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1.1 Major Soil Types in India 4
3.1 Grain size distribution of fly ash 27
3.2 California Bearing Ratio Test Apparatus 30
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