M. A. Khan,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (5-2013)
Owing to the proximity of certain locations to the thermal power stations, it has always been efforts of Engineers to enhance
the flyash utilization rate in various Civil Engineering Constructions adopting suitable strategies. In the present study, a soilflyash
interface mechanism has been evolved using different soil-flyash ratios to upgrade significantly stabilization of supporting
medium based on CBR tests. The study confirms soundness of approach when a particular interface arrangement gives high
flyash utilization rate along with many fold increase CBR values. A study was carried out to investigate the interface effect of
soil-flyash layered system in terms of CBR values so that an optimum arrangement can be achieved by using flyash in
combination with soil. In this study, 18 samples of different ratios of soil and flyash (1:0.5, 1:1, 1:1.5, 1:2, 1:2.5, 1:3) with three
sets of interfaces N = 2, 4 and 6 were tested to arrive at the most optimized combination of soil and flyash. The results indicate
that the CBR value optimized at soil-flyash ratio 1:2.5 and number of interface N = 4. The present study reveals that soil with
flyash when used in layered system with various numbers of interfaces gives considerable improvement in CBR values. In the
above arrangement about 71 % of flyash and 29 % of soil thus contributing significantly in utilization of flyash in subgrade of
flexible pavements. In the overall study, three equations for number of interfaces N = 2, 4 and 6 have also been developed in
terms of soil-flyash ratio and CBR value, so that CBR value can directly be obtained by substituting the value of soil-flyash ratio
at a particular number of interfaces.