A STUDY OF SOIL STABILIZATION USING RICE HUCK ASH

Abstract

Soil on various locations may not suitable for construction due to poor or low bearing capacity such as expansive or collapsible soil. Stabilization is a technique which introduce several years before with the purpose to make soil capable. Use wastes that will reduce construction cost as well as environmental hazards. Generally industrial wastes and agricultural wastes like fly ash and rice husk ash. . Rice husk contains silica, which highly reactive. Ash is produced by incineration process and its reactivity is controlled by thermal treatment, oxidation availability. Under these conditions it is produce ash with high specific surface area and because of this highly reactive. The main advantage of this is that it improves the properties like shear strength, stiffness modulus, and load carrying capacity of soil. Using various percentages of rice husk ash in soil and make number of samples and experiment them. It is seen that it improves shear parameter and load carrying capacity of soil. After the experiment it is seen that Rice Husk Ash is a good stabilizer it improve the shear parameter also improve the soil properties.