improvement of Collapsible soil by polymer material

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 assistant profesor, qom university of technology

3 assistant professor, Department of civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran

4 assistant professor ,Department of civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

5 assistant professor, Department of chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Collapsible soils are among the problematic soils in nature that due to wetting, make many settlements so that according to research, the amount of settling can reach 1 to 2% of the thickness of the soil layer.
If this type of soil is not identified, if structures are built on them, the constructed structure will be damaged if the soil saturates and changes in soil moisture. The existence of such soils in many parts of the world including Kerman province of Iran, necessitates the attention to study the behavior and characteristics of the collapsible soils. The aim of this contribution is to investigate the effect of butadiene rubber on the stabilization of collapsible soils. The tested fine-grained soils that have been sampled from two different sites were stabilized through injecting different percentages of butadiene (the number of experiments was 84). The ASTM D5333 Double-Consolidation Method, was applied in order to examine the stabilized soils on intact soil samples. The results show that the penetrations of butadiene rubber as well as the formation of butadiene rubber columns have led to reduction in soil collapse. Considering development of intelligent systems using prediction behavior of stabilized collapsible soils, the ANFIS model was used to predict degree of collapsibility of soil samples stabilized by injection Styrene Butadiene Rubber.

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Scientific Quarterly Journal of Iranian Association of Engineering Geology
Volume 15, Issue 4
March 2023
Pages 127-139

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  • Receive Date: 05 November 2021
  • Revise Date: 05 October 2022
  • Accept Date: 05 November 2022

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