The Analysis of Geotechnical Properties of Soils improved by Different Nanomaterials

International Journal of Civil Engineering

© 2017 by SSRG - IJCE Journal

Volume 4 Issue 2

Year of Publication : 2017

Authors : Dr. Zaid Hmaeed Majeed, Mrs Zahraa Jabbar Hussein, Eng. Rawaa Jabbar Hussein, Dr. Mohd Raihan Taha

10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V4I2P102

How to Cite?

Dr. Zaid Hmaeed Majeed, Mrs Zahraa Jabbar Hussein, Eng. Rawaa Jabbar Hussein, Dr. Mohd Raihan Taha, "The Analysis of Geotechnical Properties of Soils improved by Different Nanomaterials," SSRG International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 4,  no. 2, pp. 7-19, 2017. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V4I2P102

Abstract:

In this paper, we analyze the geotechnical properties of the natural soft soil and its mixture with different nano materials at different percentages by conducting different number of experiments. The main objective of our work is to find whether the nano materials and their percentage level will increase the soft soil geotechnical properties or not. To accomplish this process, initially the natural soil sample is collected and the different geotechnical properties of the collected sample are computed. Then, the nano materials with different percentages are added to the natural soil sample and obtained the corresponding geotechnical properties for the mixture soil sample. Subsequently, a mathematical model is developed to find the optimal geotechnical properties value in different nano materials with different percentages. The developed mathematical model shows the geotechnical properties levels of nano mixture soil for unknown experiments. Finally, a fine tuning model process is conducted to check whether the nano material mixture of the natural soil will increase its geotechnical property or not. In this way, our proposed technique finds the optimal geotechnical property value for the unknown experiments and also produces an accurate result in fine tuning process. The implementation result demonstrates the geotechnical properties results of natural soil and nano mixture soil under different experiments. Our proposed technique shows that the geotechnical property values of the nano mixture soil are high compared to the natural soil. Moreover, the developed mathematical model is better to find the optimal geotechnical property value for unknown experiments.

Keywords:

Our proposed technique shows that the geotechnical property values of the nano mixture soil are high compared to the natural soil.

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