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• Tests and practicals being marked
• Feedback as soon as all tests are back
• Probably 1 September 2010
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Theory 14
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Soil stabilisation
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History
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History
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History South Africa
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Factors affecting strength and strength development
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Purpose of stabilisation
• Potential improvements
– Improved strength
– Improved workability
– Improved durability
– Reduced permeability
– Reduced plasticity
– Reduced shrinkage
– Reduced swell
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• Actual results achieved are controlled by
– type of stabiliser
– quantity of stabiliser
– physical properties of the natural soil
• (e.g. grading, PI, linear shrinkage)
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• Highly plastic clays and water sensitive subgrade soils
– difficult to work and compact, especially when wet
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• Lime stabilisation reactions
– between lime and clay fraction of the soils
• However
– certain non-plastic calcretes and sandstones
containing amorphous silica undergo rapid and strong
cementation with lime
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• Cemented materials
– relatively brittle
– if loaded beyond a certain limit will develop
microcracks
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