STABILISATION OF BLACKCOTTON SOIL

USING BITUMEN EMULSION&GUNNY BAGS

Presented by:
D.Dheerajkumar (15H51A0113)
K .Gopinath (15H51A0132)
J.Bheem raj (16H55A0112)
Sai Chandrakanth (15H51A0115)

Under the Guidance of

Mr. Ch.Rajendra Prasad
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
CMRCET
Table of Contents

 Introduction
 Literature Review
 Materials & Methodology
 Further Progressing of Project
 Test values
 References
 Introduction

 Soil stabilization is the process of alteration of any

property of soil to improve its engineering performance

 Bitumen Emulsion is the dispersed liquid consisting of

three products
 Water+Bitumen+soil(emulsifier)
(at std temp100-150C)
 Literature Review
 Michael(1993) had proposed about bench scale evaluation of asphalt
emulsion stabilization of contaminated soils. In this study, it was discussed
about the application are discussed to the environmental fixation of soil
contaminated by organic contaminants

 Razouki et al (2002) gives an experimental study on granular stabilized

roads. Bitumen was used as a stabilizing agent act as a binder or water
proofing material

 Nikraz(2012)worked on bitumen cement stabilized layer in pavement

construction using indirect tensile strength method. In this study the goal
was to mix bitumen emulsion with soil for upgrading strength and
durability.
 NEED FOR STUDY

 Black cotton soils posses low strength and undergo volume

changes making their use difficult in constructions ,to overcome
this situation bitumen emulsion technique can be utilized.

 By using gunny bag strips improvement of shear strength of

soil can be increased.
 Materials and Methodology
Materials used are
 Black cotton soil  Bitumen

 GUNNY BAG
Performed Experiments for natural soil with Dates:-

Name of the experiment Performed Dates

Specific gravity 08-01-2019
Grain size analysis 08-01-2019
Atterberg limits 09-01-2019
Compaction 10-01-2019
 Experimental Investigation

Specific Gravity:
 It is the ratio of density of soil to the density of water.
 It is needed in the calculation of soil properties like void ratio, degree of
saturation etc.

 Specific Gravity of natural soil is 2.5

 Classification of Soil
Grain size distribution: seive
% finer
105
100
size 4.75 100
95
90
2.36 98.8
85 1.18 96.2
Percentage Finer (%)

80
75
0.6 92.35
Grain size
70 distribution 2
65 0.425 87.94
60 6
55
50
0.3 81.02
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 4
Particle Diameter (mm)
0.15 73.20
 More than 50% of soil passed through 75 microns sieve. 2
 Given soil is classified as fine grained. 0.075 63.63
 Classification of Soil(Cont…)
Atterberg Limits:
No. of Wate
Plastic limit(PL) = 29.68% blows r
Liquid limit (LL) = 61.70% conte
Plasticity Index(PI) = LL – PL = 32.02% nt(%
)
Liquid Limit Test 42 59.61
66
26 60.53
Water Content (%)

64
24 61.01
62
20 61.83
60 Linear 16 63.91
(Natural Soil)
58
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
No. of Blows
 Classification of Soil(Cont…)
Plasticity Chart:

 Plasticity Index on A-Line= 0.73× (LL-20)

= 0.73× (61.7 – 20) = 30.44%

 FROM EXCEL

 From the values of Liquid limit and Plasticity index the natural soil is
classified as Clay with High Compressibility (CH).
 Compaction Test
COMPACTION FOR NATURAL SOIL
1.52

1.5 OMC:20.01%
MDD:1.50
1.48
DRY DENSITY (g/cc)

1.46

1.44
COMPACTION FOR NATURAL
1.42 SOIL MAX DRY DENSITY

1.4

1.38

1.36
0 5 10 15 20 25
MOSITURE CONTENT (%)
 COMPACTION FOR (90+5%+0) MAX
DRY DENSITY
1.6

1.55
dry density (g/cc)

1.5

1.45
COMPACTION FOR
(90+5%+0) MAX DRY
1.4 DENSITY

1.35

1.3
0 5 10 15 20 25
moisture content (%)

MDD:1.58
OMC:19.61
 COMPACTION for
(90%+5%+0.2%)
1.65

1.6
dry density (g/cc)

1.55

COMPACTION TEST MAX

1.5 DRY DENSITY

1.45

1.4
0 5 10 15 20 25 OMC:18.62%
moisture content(%)
MDD:1.63
 COMPACTION for (90%+5%+0.4%)
1.75

1.7

1.65
dry density (g/cc)

1.6

1.55
COMPACTION TEST MAX
1.5 DRY DENSITY

1.45

1.4

1.35

1.3
0 5 10 15 20 25 MDD:1.75
moisture content (%)
OMC:18.32
 COMPACTION for
(90%+5%+0.6%)

1.8

1.7
dry density (g/cc)

1.6

COMPACTION TEST MAX

1.5 DRY DENSITY

1.4

1.3
0 5 10 15 20 25
moisture content(%) OMC:18.01
MDD:1.790
 COMPACTION for (90%+5%+0.8%)
1.8

1.75

1.7
dry density (g/cc)

1.65

1.6

1.55 COMPACTION TEST MAX

DRY DENSITY
1.5

1.45

1.4

1.35
0 5 10 15 20 25
moisture content (%)
OMC:18.8
MDD:1.70
CBR FOR NATURAL SOIL

50
45
40
35
30
LOAD

25
20
15
10
5
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

PENETRATION
CBR for (90%+5%+0%)

CBR ANALYSIS(90+5+0)%
120

100

80
LOAD

60
CBR ANALYSIS LOAD
40

20

0
0 5 10 15
PENETRATION(mm)
 CBR ANALYSIS (90+5+0.2)%
200

180

160

140
LOAD(kg)

120

100
CBR ANALYSIS LOAD
80

60

40

20

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
PENETRATION(mm)
 CBR ANALYSIS(90+5+0.4)%
300

250

200
LOAD

150
CBR ANALYSIS LOAD

100

50

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
PENETRATION(mm)
 CBR ANALYSIS 0.6%+90%+5%
120

100

80
LOAD

60
CBR ANALYSIS LOAD

40

20

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
PENETRATION(mm)
 CBR ANALYSIS 0.6%+90%+5%
120

100

80
LOAD

60
CBR ANALYSIS LOAD

40

20

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
PENETRATION(mm)
Test values:

 Specific gravity of natural soil is 2.5

 Liquid limit and Plastic limit of natural soil is 61.7 &
29.68 respectively
 Maximum dry density : 1.625g/cc
 Optimum moisture content : 16.3%.
Dates of further Experiments to be Performed :-
Name of the experiment Performed Dates

California bearing ratio(CBR) 23-02-2019

for Natural soil

Compaction for soil 12-02-2019 to 17-02-2019

Gunny bags with bitumen
emulsion
 Further Progress of Project
Percentage Percenta Percentage
of ge of Of CBR
soil(Black bitumen Jute(%) Compacti test
S. NO. cotton soil) on test
OMC MDD(g/c
(%) c)

1. 100% 0 0 20.01 1.500 59.38

2. 90% 5% 0 19.11 1.58 82.15

3. 90% 5% 0.2 18.62 1.63 130.2
4. 90% 5% 0.4 18.32 1.75 139.5
5. 90% 5% 0.6 18.01 1.79 83.7
6. 90% 5% 0.8 18.8 1.70 80.6
References

 Katti, R.K.(1978).”Search for solutions to problems on black

cotton soils”, 1st L.G.S Annual lecture, Indian Geotechnical
society, New Delhi, India.

 Cold Regions research and engineering lab. ” Stabilizing the

soils using bitumen emulsions -HANOVER.
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