期刊名称:International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management
电子版ISSN:2395-5252
出版年度:2021
卷号:3
期号:12
页码:606-617
DOI:10.35629/5252-0312362369
语种:English
出版社:IJAEM JOURNAL
摘要:Coconut fiber or coir fiber and is obtained from the coconut shell. Coconut fiber is very cheap, economical and easily available in the market .It can be used to impart the various engineering properties such as shear strength, tensile strength, bearing capacity and many other properties by using various proportions and size of the coir fiber The fiber has a high degree of water retention and is rich in micronutrients. By introducing the coconut coir fibers in the soil the development of the frictional forces increases between the soil particles and the reinforcement fibers. In this paper the author has worked on using various proportions of coconut fiber to the clayey soil .The tests conducted on the clayey soil are Liquid Limit, Plastic Limit, Standard Proctor Test and California Bearing Ratio (CBR). The percentages of the coconut fiber used in the soil are 0%, 0.3, 0.5%, 0.8% ,1.1% and 1.4%. The various parameters which were investigated in this research are dry density, optimum moisture content etc. It is concluded that the best results of OMC and MDD are obtained at 1.4% of coconut coir fiber .For CBR tests the highest values are also obtained at 1.4% of coconut fiber respectively. Hence the above proportion can be adopted in the road pavement designs,reinforcement of foundation soils etc.
关键词:CBR;liquid limit;plastic limit;standard proctar test