Lime Stabilization of a Virginia Clay Soil

The fact that when lime is added to clayey soils same very beneficial results are produced dates back into the remote past. It is not a new development, In the United States lime has been in use since l923. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of increasing soaking time of soil-lime mixtures on the strength, swell potential, and degree of saturation. In order to ascertain the exact composition of clay minerals, X-ray diffraction analysis was run on the soil sample. The analysis showed that the clayey soil contained a large amount of water with a greater percentage of halloysite minerals. The soil, it was concluded, was poorly crystalline and was found to be midway between montmorillonite and kaolinite group.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Civil Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Civil Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1962

Author dc:creator

• Barney, Syed Ishratali

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Walker, Richard D.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Krebs, R. D.
• Nelson, B. W.
• Parsons, William A.
• Bungay, Henry R. III

• soil amendments

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-11162012-120327

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/45765