A project on

STUDY OF ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SOIL USING AGGREGATE

DUST
GUIDED BY

DR. Mrs. S. A. BHALCHANDRA

Submitted By

1. Biradar Amasidd D.

(BE06F01F017)

2. Borgaonkar Shiwani J.

(BE06F01F043)

3. Kulkarni Swapna N.

(BE06F01F050)

4. Shinde Priyanka S.

(BE06F01F086)

5. Kucche Kaviraj J.

(BE07S01F005)

6. Shinde Mahesh B.

(BE07S01F008

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE REVIEW
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
CONCLUSION
REFERANCES

The study is conducted on locally available soil(behind Hostel-A Government

Engineering College Aurangabad) and a black cotton soil collected from near the
Madhubahan hotel Beed Bypass Aurangabad.
Aggregate dust is collected from Waluj MIDC region crusher plant
And the experiments are conducted at Geotechnical Lab. Civil engineering
department, Government Engineering College Aurangabad

1. INTRODUCTION
As we know:
1. BC soils absorb water heavily, swell, become soft, lose strength, easily
compressible and has tendency to heave during wet condition.
2. BC soils shrink in volume and develop cracks during summer(70mm wide
and 1 m deep). They are characterised by extreme hardness and cracks
when dry.
3. When Free Swell Index exceeds 50%(called highly expansive ), undergo
volumetric changes leading to pavement distortion, cracking and general

unevenness due to seasonal wetting and drying.

4. BC soils produce a CBR value of 2 to 5% if compacted efficiently

Representative heights of capillary rise

Types of soil

Rise in metres

Gravel

0.02-0.10

Coarse sand

0.10-0.15

Fine sand

0.30-1.00

Silt

1.0-10.0

Clay

10.0-30.0

Colloidal soil

More than 30

Recent

trend in research works in the field of geotechnical

Engineering and construction materials focuses more on the

search for the cheap and locally available materials such as
aggregate dust fly ash baggage ash etc. as a stabilizing agents For
the purpose of full or partially replacement of traditional wastes.

Stone dust is becoming a new focus of researchers of the

enhanced friction property such waste when combined with soil.

Thus this project is aimed at evaluating the possibility of utilizing

aggregate dust in increasing the engineering properties of soil

Materials used for improving the engineering properties of soil

1. Aggregate dust
Aggregate Dusts

2. Glass fibers
3. Fly ash
Glass Fibers

4. Cement
5. lime
6. Groundnut shell ash
7. Iron Slag

Geo-Nets

8. bamboo fibers
9. Blast furnace slag etc.
GSA

Advantages of Reinforced Earth Structure

Less expansive

Increases the maximum dry density

Increases shear strength
Less differential settlement
Stability of slopes.
Withstand earthquake forces(prevent the liquefaction of soil)

Increases CBR value which has great significance in

transportation engineering

 Main components of reinforced earth

- Fill
- Reinforcement
- Facings

2. LITERATURE REVIEW
When construction is carried out in weak foundation soils

following points should be considered

Bearing capacity failures.
Differential settlements.
Large lateral pressures and movement.
Slope instability

To avoid such problems, reinforcing of soil is done by using

reinforcing material as mention.

Case Study 1.0

Geogrid-Reinforced Retaining Walls
One of the retaining wall construction along highway in the northern

area of Brazil with heights ranging from 2m to 8.2 m.

To prevent potential of pore water pressures through foundation, a

drainage system with non-woven geotextile strips as a reinforced

material was used.
After that the settlements and lateral movements were monitored

during the construction up to 90 days after the start of the

construction.

Traffic loading = 20 kPa

Uniaxial geogrids
H=2 - 8.2 m
4.50
L> 0.7H
GRPS fill platform
Jet grout columns
9m

Organic silt
and clay
(SPT N=0 to 1)

Clayey silt
(SPT N>10)

1.2 m (dia.)

3.0 m

Not to scale

Case Study 2.0

Widening Of An Existing Roadway

Widening and raising an existing roadway was required for

supporting two additional lanes of vehicular traffic in South

Africa.
The GRPS system was selected due to its technical,

economic, and environmental advantages.

Vibration to concrete columns was used for minimizing

settlement at the outer edges of the embankment.

Permanent pavement section

Lightweight fill

Existing roadway
Temporary wall

Welded wire form slope

3.0m

Organic silt

Vibro-concrete
columns

Clayey sand fill

Organic silt
5.5m

Dense clayey fine sand

1.7m

Loose clayey fine sand

1.8m

Marl

Vibro-concrete columns

Wick drains
Not to scale

Since the completion of this widening roadway in 1997, no

problems have been reported.

3. SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
The experiments has been performed to find out soil properties

Determination of Water content by oven dry method

Determination of shear parameter by Direct Shear Test

Determination of max. dry density by proctor density

method

4. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
TEST ON LOCALLY AVAILABLE SOIL
By using standard proctor test

1.

It involves the determination of dry density with

respect to moisture content for different percentage
of aggregate dust.

The stages of aggregate dust added is; 0%. 10%, 15%

20%, 30% etc.

One of market survey about Stone crusher in Aurangabad city shows

following results;
Total no. aggregate crusher plant arround the Aurangabad city;
- Chauka 4 no
- Paithan road 2 no
- Chikalthana MIDC region 1 no
- Waluj MIDC region 2 no
Rate of aggregate dust sold 1200/brass
Transportation by means of Trucks, Tractors etc
Onwer referance Tukaram Dhandage (Chauka region)
T.O. Rathod (Kannad region)

PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
A. AGGREGATE DUST
1. Specific gravity of aggregate dust = 2.8
2. Sieve analysis of aggregate dust
I.S. Sieve no.

% Mass of soil
retained
0.9
6.2

Cumulative %
retained
0.9
7.1

% passing

4.75mm
2.36mm

Mass of soil
retained (gm)
9
62

1.18mm
0.6mm
0.425mm
0.300mm
0.150mm
0.075mm
pan

406
161
25
122
127
65
23

40.6
16.1
2.5
12.2
12.7
6.5
2.3

47.7
63.8
66.3
78.5
91.2
97.7
100

52.3
36.2
33.7
21.5
8.8
2.3
0.0

Fineness modulus of aggregate dust=452.7/800 = 0.56

Coefficient of uniformity=

D60 / D10 = 8.125

Coefficient of curvature= ( D30 )2 / (D10 xD60 ) = 0.84

Hence well graded

99.1
92.9

MDD VS OMC CURVE OF AGGREGATE DUST

Variation of dry density with %water content for

aggregate dust

BLACK COTTON SOIL AND LOCALLY AVAILABLE SOIL

Quantity
PROPERTY
Black cotton soil

Locally available soil

Natural moisture content %

15

Liquid limit %

93

45

Plastic limit %

21

26

Plasticity index %

72

19

Specific Gravity %

2.5

2.6

Dark grey

Dusty white

California bearing ratio %

Color

TESTS CONDUCTED ON LOCALLY AVAILABLE SOIL

1. STANDARD PROCTOR TEST

2. SHEAR STRENGTH TEST

1.STANDARD PROCTOR
TEST

0% AGGREGATE DUST

The test results show the Maximum dry density of 2000 Kg/m3 to the
corresponding Optimum moisture content as 17.20%.

10% AGRREGATE DUST

The graph shows the slightly improvement of MDD 2150 Kg/m3

corresponding to water content as 16.3%.

15% AGGREGATE DUST

The graph shows the MDD of 2200Kg/m3 corresponding to

water content as 16.4 %.

20% AGGREGATE DUST

The graph shows the maximum dry density of MDD 2250Kg/m3

corresponding to water content as 16.06%.

30% AGGREGATE DUST

The graph shows the slightly maximum dry density of MDD 2280Kg/m3
corresponding to water content as 15.80%.

2. SHEAR STRENGTH
TEST

0% AGGREGATE DUST

10% AGGREGATE DUST

15% AGGREGATE DUST

20% AGGREGATE DUST

30% AGGREGATE DUST

TESTS CONDUCTED ON BLACK COTTON

SOIL
1. STANDARD PROCTOR TEST
2. SHEAR STRENGTH TEST

1. STANDARD PROCTOR
TEST

0% Aggregate Dust

The test results show the Maximum dry density as 1890 Kg/m3 to the
corresponding Optimum moisture content as 22.10%.

10% Aggregate dust

The test results show the Maximum dry density as 1960 Kg/m3 to the corresponding
Optimum moisture content of 22.10%.

20% Aggregate dust

The test results show the Maximum dry density as 2050 Kg/m3 to the corresponding Optimum
moisture content of 22.10%.

30% Aggregate dust

The test results show the Maximum dry density as 2250 Kg/m3 to
the corresponding Optimum moisture content of 22.10%.

2. SHEAR STRENGTH TEST

0% Aggregate Dust

black cotton soil with 10% aggregate dust

black cotton soil with 20% aggregate dust

Black cotton soil with 30% aggregate dust

RESULT
1. Comparison between MDD and % of aggregate dust for locally
available Soil
Sr.
No

%
Aggregate
Dust

OMC

Change
in
OMC
(%)

MDD
Kg/m3

increase
in
MDD (%)

17.2

2000

10

16.20

-5.8

2150

7.5

15

16.36

-4.8

2200

9.09

20

16.06

-6.6

2250

12.5

30

15.80

-8.1

2280

14.1

2. Comparison between OMC and % of aggregate dust for locally

available soil

Decrement of OMC with the corresponding increment in aggregate dust.

- well gradation of soil

3. variation of c and with % of aggregate dust for locally

available soil

Sr.
No

%
Aggregate
Dust

Increase
in C (%)

Increase
in (%)

Variation of C and with % aggregate dust

14
12

0.18

1.71

10

10

0.19

5.55

11.0
3

545

15

0.22

22.22

8.81

450

c * 10

8
6
4

20

0.295

63.88

12.1
3

1042

30

0.36

100

11.8
1

1010

2
0
0%

10%

15%

20%

Percentage aggregate dust added

30%

4. Comparison between MDD and % of aggregate dust for black

cotton soil

Sr.
No

%
Aggregat
e Dust

OMC

Changes in
OMC (%)

MDD
Kg/m3

2300

Changes
in
MDD
(%)

Variation of MDD with % aggregate dust

2200

22.10

1890

10

23.30

+5.42

1955

3.4

20

23.10

+4.52

2050

8.64

MDD

2100
2000

MDD(kg/m3)
1900

1800
1700

30

22.35

+1.13

2250

19.047

0%

10%

20%

Aggregate Dust

30%

5. Variation of OMC with % aggregate dust for black

cotton soil

Percentage of aggregate dust increases the optimum moisture content decreases.

- well gradation of soil.

6. variation of c and with % of aggregate dust for black cotton

soil

Sr.
No

%
Aggregate
Dust

Changes
in C (%)

Variation of C and with % aggregate dust

Changes in
(%)

6
5

10

0.201

0.201

0.25
7

2.63

10.2

c * 10

3
2

20

0.234

+16.42

2.89

11.24
1

30

0.276

+29.182

5.19

20.19

0
0%

10%

20%

Percentage aggregate dust added

30%

Quantum of work performed

TEST
PERFORMED

% OF
AGGERGATE
DUST

LOCALLY
AVAILABLE SOIL

BLACK COTTON
SOIL

0%

1
2
3

1
2
3

10%

1
2
3

1
2
3

15%

1
2
3

1
2
3

20%

1
2
3

1
2
3

30%

1
2
3

1
2
3

DRY DENSITY

SHEAR
STRENGTH

No of specimen tested :- 30 sample

CONCLUSION
For locally available soil:

There is a huge increment of maximum dry density i.e. 7.5%,

9.09%, 12.5%, and 14% to the corresponding increment aggregate
dust of 10%, 15%, 20 %, and 30% respectively.

There is tremendous increment of frictional property of 6.45,

5.15, 7.09 and 6.92 times the initial to the corresponding
aggregate dust of, 10%, 15%, 20 %, and 30% respectively.

There is slight improvement in the cohesive property of soil i.e.

5.55%, 22.22%, 63. 88% and 100% to the corresponding aggregate
dust of 10%, 15%, and 20 % 30% respectively

For black cotton soil:

The increment of maximum dry density of 3.5%, 8.46% and

19.04% is recorded with the corresponding increment in aggregate
dust of 10%, 20% and 30% respectively.

There is considerable increment of frictional property () i.e.

10.2, 11.2 and20.19 times to the corresponding aggregate dust of
10%, 20 % and 30% respectively.

There is slight improvement in the cohesive property (C) of soil

i.e. 0%, 16.42%, and 29.18% to the corresponding aggregate dust
of 10%, 20 % and 30% respectively

All above conclusions will overcome the socio-economic

constraints with economy.

This field is new area of research and further development

for geotechnical engineers.

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Dr. B. C. Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain, Arun Kumar Jain ,Soil

Mechanics & Foundations (16 Edt.), Laxmi Publication Ltd, 2005

Shashi K. Gulhati, Manoj Datta ,Geotechnical Engineering Tecmax

Publication, 2006,
Indian Standard codes & Publication Series IS-2720 (Part 1-30), SP
20
BS 1377, method of testing soil for civil engineering purpose, British
standard Institute London
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