22-10-2014, 03:29 PM
Abstracts: Use of natural fibre in civil engineering for improving soil properties is advantageous because they are cheap, locally available, biodegradable and eco-friendly. The jute fiber reinforcement causes significant improvement in tensile strength, shear strength, and other engineering properties of the soil. Over the last decade the use of randomly distributed natural and synthetic fiber has recorded a tremendous increase. In places which, because of the economic, military or geological conditions, building a structure on such soils is essential, geo-synthetics will be used to reinforce the soil and improve the bearing capacity. In this project we have performed the CBR studies by mixing the yellow soil with plastic for improving engineering performance of sub soil. A series of California Bearing Ratio (CBR) tests, Tri axial tests and some other tests will be carried out on randomly reinforced soil for different percentage of saturation with jute fiber and woven Geo-textile.