Expansive soils swell and shrink due to changes in water content. This causes damage to structures
founded in expansive soils. One common stabilization method for the improvement of expansive
soil behavior involves the ...
Expansive Soil Geotechnical Properties Stabilized with Plastic
Powder and Lime
Expansive soil is considered defective due to the large volume change it undergoes
for any moisture fluctuation. There are several engineering ...
Mortar is yet the major construction material used in the growing Ethiopian construction industry. Mortar is used in the different building locations on the building segment such as; load-bearing and non-load-bearing ...
The main objective of this study is to test and analyze the effectiveness of Quarry Dust (QD) as a stabilizer on the Geotechnical Properties of Black Cotton Soils (BCS) in Bahirdar; due to the reason that Black Cotton Soils ...
Every structure must rest upon soil and the soil at that particular site should be satisfactory for the intended purpose. But unfortunately, nowadays findings show that such satisfactory soils are of rare in occurrence. ...
The stability of the structures to be built on the soil depends on the geo material at
which it rests. Expansive soil is characterized by its high swelling behavior, consecutive
volume change and loses of strength ...
In Woreta-Debre Tabor road section part of Woreta-Woldia link road there is around
400 m section of the road which is un-surfaced from construction period up to know
due to instability problems happened during ...
Volume-changing soils are among the most challenging geomaterials commonly met
on the planet during infrastructural development. This study investigates the change
in the geotechnical and microstructural characteristics ...
Expansive soils have shrink and swell properties with moisture variation have difficult engineering properties hence it poses problems during infrastructure development. Soils with desirable engineering properties must be ...
In tropical countries, including Ethiopia Expansive soils are difficult deposits for civil
engineering construction because they swell and shrink during the wet and dry seasons,
respectively. The ...
Accurate and cost-effective approaches are required to determine the unsaturated soil
property functions. Past research studies have indicated that particle-size distribution
data of soils are a ...
In recent years reinforced soil retaining structures are both technically and economically various advantages over other retaining structures; especially when their will be property limitation and under poor soil conditions. ...
Piled raft foundation is a geotechnical composite construction consisting of three elements: piles,
raft and soil. In piled raft foundation, the superstructure load is shared between the piles and the
raft. The analysis ...
The use of Roller Compacted Concrete Pavement (RCCP) is widely expanding throughout the world because of its benefits of reduced cement content, early opening to traffic, economic benefits and high speed of implementation ...
Many road networks were built by cutting slopes. Roads which pass on the hilly and
mountainous terrains of Ethiopia experienced excavations performed by blasting during
construction stage due to variable topographical, ...
A large portion of the earth’s surface is covered by soils and they are widely used as construction and foundation materials.
Specially soil mechanics is the branch of Engineering that deals with two main objectives ...
Investigation of the underground conditions at a site is prerequisite to the economical design of the substructure elements. It is also necessary to obtain sufficient information for feasibility and economic studies of the ...
This thesis abstract explores the utilization of soil as a readily available and abundant
resource for various applications, including cost-effective alternatives to traditional
construction materials. While ...
Soil is the ultimate foundation material which supports the structure. The proper functioning
of the structure, depend on the engineering properties of the underlying soil. Investigating
the engineering properties ...