Role of Engineering Properties in Prediciting Collapisble Behaviour of Red Soils

International Journal of Civil Engineering

© 2018 by SSRG - IJCE Journal

Volume 5 Issue 12

Year of Publication : 2018

Authors : K.Saroja Rani, P.V.V.Satyanarayana

10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V5I12P103

How to Cite?

K.Saroja Rani, P.V.V.Satyanarayana, "Role of Engineering Properties in Prediciting Collapisble Behaviour of Red Soils," SSRG International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 5,  no. 12, pp. 17-21, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V5I12P103

Abstract:

Moisture-sensitive soils prone to collapsing and losing their strength on wetting. Collapse characteristics contribute various problems to infrastructures that are constructed on red soils. The chief problems are decreasing volume causes differential settlements. Finally these soils induce stresses on supporting structures. In the present study an attempt is made with 10 red soils for various geotechnical characteristics to relate the collapsibility of these soils by considering parameters like water content, dry density, saturation moisture content, void ratio and porosity etc., the degree of collapsibility if these soils are explained with existing models.

Keywords:

Moisture sensitive, Collapse Characteristics, differential settlements.

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