Behaviour of Consistency Limit on Stabilized Soil in Effect to Temperature Changes

¹ Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Vels Institute of Science and Technology & Advanced Studies, Tamil Nadu, India
² Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Vels Institute of Science and Technology & Advanced Studies, Tamil Nadu, India

^* Corresponding author: janushith.se@velsuniv.ac.in

Abstract

Soil engineering properties are usually determined in a laboratory setting at room temperature of 270C. Seasonal changes, which is mainly the alteration in thermal condition in surrounding soil, causes reasonable concern about the nature and magnitude of temperature changes which influences soil engineering properties. The particle size distribution, consistency limit, strength, mineralogy, and permeability of the soil are all accompanied by rise in temperature. In clayey soils, as the temperature rises, the average particle size increases as a result of agglomeration and cementation of the clay particles. In this paper, an attempt is made to study the change in temperature which directly influences the consistency limit of clayey soil stabilized with Lime and Rice husk ash at different proportions.