IMPROVEMENT OF SELECTED PARTS OF BASRAH GOVERNORATE SOILS USING A MIXTURE OF CEMENT AND NOVOLAC POLYMER
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https://doi.org/10.30572/2018/KJE/521319Keywords:
Improvement Soil, Novolac Polymer, Cement, Engineering Properties, PlasticityAbstract
A weak clayey silt soils from Garmmat Ali and a sandy soil from AL-Nashoa region were used from different sites and depths and mixed with (0.2%,0.4%,0.6 w/W) of Novolac polymer with (2%,4%,6% w/W) of Cement to know the profitable amount of Novolac, and improving some of engineering properties of the soils that include: the plasticity and compacting. A noticeable improvement in the plasticity of these clayey soils as result of adding a mixture by the rise in their plastic limit, dry densities, lowering in their optimum moisture contents, and increase in tensile strengths as compared with crude soils. There are also an improve in treated sandy soil properties. The cost of using this polymer as a soil binder was reduced by about 50% as compared to the usual practice which involve removing the clayey silt soils and replace them by sand or other materials.
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