Response of Sandy Soil Stabilized
by Polymer Additives
Volume 1 - Issue 3
Chao Xing1, Xueyan Liu2* and Kumar Anupam2
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- 1School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Heilongjiang, China
- 2Section of Pavement Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
*Corresponding author:
Xueyan Liu, Section of Pavement Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands
Received: September 03, 2018; Published: September 11, 2018
DOI: 10.32474/OAJESS.2018.01.000112
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Abstract
Traditional sandy soil stabilizers such as lime cement, fly ash and bituminous materials, etc., usually require long curing time.
Hence now a day, polymer stabilizer is used more extensively because of its stable chemical property and shorter curing time.
For the developing organization, it is important to judge the performance of stabilized soil during its developing stages only. This
paper aims to highlight a quick and easy test to evaluate the mechanical performance of such polymer based stabilized soil. For this
study, three different kinds of polymer stabilizers at developing stage were evaluated against a market ready product. The analysis
of the test result include a comparison of the strength, moisture loss rate and strain energy under different curing time, polymer
type, polymer additive amount and test conditions. This study shows that the strength of the stabilized sandy soil is significantly
increased both under wet and dry conditions by using the polymer additives. With the procedure mentioned in the paper it was
easier to identify the relative merits and demerits of each product.
Keywords: Polymer Stabilizer; Sandy Soil; Unconfined Compressive Test; Permeability Test
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