SOIL STABILIZATION USING NANO CHEMICAL TERRASIL AND ZYCOBOND

Abstract

Many civil engineering structures fail due to failure of soil underlying the structure for construction of buildings, dam, bridges, etc. There are different improvement methods for treating and improving in situ soils, such as reinforcement, chemical stabilization, compaction, and lowering the groundwater level. Nowadays, in addition to traditional stabilization materials, nano chemicals also are used in soil stabilization. Nano Chemicals, because of their high particular surface area and surface charges, have the capability to significantly affect the engineering properties and behavior of soils, even if there is a small amount of them in the soil. The progress in materials science is based on the principle that properties of materials are due to their internal structure. In other words, material properties can be modified by proper changes in their structures. In this project we are dealing with two major problems one is rainfall and other is to control the sand dunes (in desert) or soil erosion in several areas on underlying weak soil and soil is not that much strong to bear the load coming from daily traffic conditions as per IRC SP 72 so our aim to increase the strength of the underlying soil to overcome the failure of soil . As this being the most important factor for the destruction of the various civil engineering structures like road pavement, bridges, dams and many big structures. As per current research and history in this study our aim is to waterproofing of underlying soil and controls the soil erosion or sand dunes in deserts along with providing sufficient strength by using certain amount of cement. And we are doing it with two nano product terrasil and zycobond along with cement. Basically, for stabilizing underlying base with terrasil and zycobond there are two ways of injecting it into the base, First we can spray the solution of terrasil and zycobond of different dosage on the dry compacted bed of soil to when our prime objective is water proofing and dust controlling of the base. Second we can mix terrasil and zycobond along with cement with underlying soil to increase the CBR values along with waterproofing and dust controlling.