COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAIR REINFORCED POND ASH WITH LIME AND SILTY SOIL

Abstract

Production of solid waste is another challenging problem confronted by the world for which vast area of land is required for its disposal. Alternatively, engineers attempting to employ these solid waste materials in the civil engineering construction based on their suitability & workability on their performances. The main goal of this study is to investigate the feasibility of huge industrial waste material Pond ash by another solid waste materials such as human hair fibre for its stabilization as a reinforcement with the use of lime and soil as additive which not only save tons of fertile soil for different purposes but also can replace conventional commercial fibre materials. The effect of its reinforcement over Pond ash composite observed through a series of laboratory tests such as Index property tests, compaction tests ,unconfined compression tests, Indirect tensile strength .i.e. Brazilian test, Unconfined untrained triaxial tests ,CBR tests ,X ray diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscope. The test result shows that the inclusion of randomly distributed fibre (Human hairs) in Pond ash composite mixtures substantially improves the engineering properties of Pond ash.