1 BE Final year students, Department of Civil Engineering, P.R. Engineering College, Trichy-Thanjavur Highway, Thanjavur, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, P.R. Engineering College, Trichy-Thanjavur Highway, Vallam, Thanjavur, India
Online published on 21 November, 2017.
The term soil stabilization means the improvement of the stability or bearing capacity of the soil. It can be done by compaction or addition of suitable admixtures. The cost of introducing additives has also increased in recent years. But the stabilization using waste plastic strips is an economic method because the stabilizer used here is waste plastic, which are cheaply available.
This method of soil stabilization can be effectively used in reducing the plastic waste discharged in the society by reusing them as admixture or stabilizer. Plastic strips obtained from waste plastic were mixed with the soil. California Bearing Ratio (CBR) tests were carried out on reinforced soil by varying percentage of plastic strips with different aspect ratios.
Ultimately these wastes results in improved strength and deformation behaviour of sub grade soil substantially. Therefore this project deals with the usage of plastic such as shopping bags and analysis with respect to the strength.
