- Title
- Stabilization of a highly expansive soil using waste-tire-derived aggregates and lime treatment
- Creator
- Soltani, Amin; Taheri, Abbas; Deng, An; O'Kelly, Brendan
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/189196
- Identifier
- vital:17424
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cscm.2022.e01133
- Identifier
- ISSN:2214-5095 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This study investigates the combined efficacy of waste-tire-derived aggregate (TDA) materials and hydrated lime on the compactability, compressive strength and swelling potential of a highly expansive soil from South Australia. A total of 21 mix-designs, covering a comprehensive range of soil–TDA–lime combinations, were examined through standard Proctor compaction, unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and oedometer swell tests. The mobilized UCS exhibited a ‘rise–fall’ behavior, peaking at 5% TDA content and subsequently decreasing (monotonically) for higher inclusions of TDA. Increasing the TDA mean particle size (from 1.67 to 3.34 mm) also contributed positively to the UCS development. Addition of TDA to the soil/soil–lime-blends produced notable reductions in the swelling potential; the reduction was primarily governed by higher TDA contents, and, to a lesser degree, for larger TDA mean particle sizes. However, the role of TDA particle size in reducing swelling was found to be more significant than that of enhancing the UCS. As expected, lime treatment of the soil–TDA blends provided major further improvements to the UCS and swelling potential reduction; the achieved UCS improvements being positively proportional to the lime content and curing time. In view of the experimental results, soil–lime blends containing TDA to soil–lime mass ratios of up to 10% (preferably employing coarse-sand-sized equivalent TDA) can be deemed as suitable choices (capable of adequately mitigating the swelling potential, while simultaneously enhancing the UCS). © 2022 The Authors
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Case Studies in Construction Materials Vol. 16, no. (2022), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 The Authors
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4005 Civil engineering; Compressive strength; Expansive soil; Lime; Swelling potential; Waste-tire-derived aggregate
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