Stabilization of Soil Using Polyacrylamide (PAM) Polymer and its Application in Civil Engineering.

Authors

  • Prof. Sayyed Aamir Hussain  Department of Civil Engineering, Anjuman College of Engineering and Technology, Sadar, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
  • Dr. P. P. Saklecha  Department of Civil Engineering, Anjuman College of Engineering and Technology, Sadar, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
  • Vaishnavi Khobragade  Department of Civil Engineering, Anjuman College of Engineering and Technology, Sadar, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
  • Rukshar Ansari  Department of Civil Engineering, Anjuman College of Engineering and Technology, Sadar, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
  • Sajid Saleem  Department of Civil Engineering, Anjuman College of Engineering and Technology, Sadar, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
  • Zeehan Sheikh  Department of Civil Engineering, Anjuman College of Engineering and Technology, Sadar, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Keywords:

Black cotton soil, Atterberg limits, Consistency, Polymer, In-situ, Polyacrylamide.

Abstract

To enhance the properties of soil and reduce the cost of project, polymer was used as an additive for the improvement of a base material of the road work. Polyacrylamide (PAM) is one such polymer which have many advantages including reduction in permeability, an increase in durability and its provision of strength characteristics. It is very cheap and easily available. In the progress of work, 0.02% of polyacrylamide (PAM) polymer is added to the dry weight of black cotton soil. Soil has been collected from Lonara Village (15 km away for Nagpur city). Various index & engineering properties have been tested on treated and untreated samples. The result obtained on both the samples are compared and we get appreciable enhancement in the property of soil. Our main objective is to test the soil on two parameters i.e. improvement in strength and improvement in CBR value of the soil sample. These type of improvement have allow to use the polymer in road construction work.

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2020-03-21

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Volume 5, Issue 7, March-April-2020

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Prof. Sayyed Aamir Hussain, Dr. P. P. Saklecha, Vaishnavi Khobragade, Rukshar Ansari, Sajid Saleem, Zeehan Sheikh "Stabilization of Soil Using Polyacrylamide (PAM) Polymer and its Application in Civil Engineering. " International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 5, Issue 7, pp.595-600, March-April-2020.