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Laboratory Investigation of Sugarcane Bagasse as Soil Reinforcement Material
In this paper, the extent of strength and stiffness response due to varying content of sugarcane bagasse, normal pressures and soil conditions was investigated. This was to establish the possible use of fibre bagasse as a reinforcement material. Laboratory direct shear model studies showed that the addition of fibre bagasse to unreinforced soil in percentage by mass of 0.3–1.7 increases the strength and stiffness of the sandy soil up to a maximum content of 1.4%. This constituted a profound improvement in the angle of internal friction at low normal pressures. Additionally, comparing the percentage improvement in shear strength parameters obtained from dry and moist reinforced soil presented similar improvements, depicting that the improvement in strength with varying fibre content is independent of the moisture content even though the presence of water reduced the peak shear strengths. These results presented a unique opportunity of using sugarcane bagasse as an additional reinforcing material in improving the engineering properties of soils especially for low load projects and contributing to the existing solutions of disposing of bagasse.
Laboratory Investigation of Sugarcane Bagasse as Soil Reinforcement Material
In this paper, the extent of strength and stiffness response due to varying content of sugarcane bagasse, normal pressures and soil conditions was investigated. This was to establish the possible use of fibre bagasse as a reinforcement material. Laboratory direct shear model studies showed that the addition of fibre bagasse to unreinforced soil in percentage by mass of 0.3–1.7 increases the strength and stiffness of the sandy soil up to a maximum content of 1.4%. This constituted a profound improvement in the angle of internal friction at low normal pressures. Additionally, comparing the percentage improvement in shear strength parameters obtained from dry and moist reinforced soil presented similar improvements, depicting that the improvement in strength with varying fibre content is independent of the moisture content even though the presence of water reduced the peak shear strengths. These results presented a unique opportunity of using sugarcane bagasse as an additional reinforcing material in improving the engineering properties of soils especially for low load projects and contributing to the existing solutions of disposing of bagasse.
Laboratory Investigation of Sugarcane Bagasse as Soil Reinforcement Material
Oderah, Vincent (author) / Kalumba, Denis (author)
Fourth Geo-China International Conference ; 2016 ; Shandong, China
Geo-China 2016 ; 61-68
2016-07-21
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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