Title :
Innovative environmental friendly new material for the road construction
Author :
Maheshwari, Kalpana V. ; Desai, AtuI K.
Author_Institution :
Appl. Mech. Dept., S V Nat. Inst. of Technol., Surat, India
Abstract :
An experimental program was undertaken to investigate the improvement in the sub grade soil containing highly compressible clayey soil for the road construction using the polyester fibers as a reinforcement in terms of CBR Value. Reinforcing the soil using the fibers is environmentally friendly innovative techniques because the inclusion of fiber does not affect chemical properties of soil. It was observed that there is significant increase in CBR value with the inclusion of polyester fibers up to 1.5% fiber content for both 6mm and 12mm fiber length. A study for flexible pavement on highly compressible clayey soil reinforced with polyester fibers was also undertaken.
Keywords :
environmental factors; geotechnical engineering; innovation management; polymer fibres; road building; soil; structural engineering; compressible clayey soil; environmentally friendly innovative techniques; fiber inclusion; flexible pavement; polyester fibers; road construction; subgrade soil reinforcement; Color; CBR Value; Clayey Soil; Flexible Pavement; Polyester Fiber;
Conference_Titel :
Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering (ICBEE), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8748-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8749-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBEE.2010.5649644
