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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 400, 2024
5th International Conference on Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering (SPICE 2024)
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Article Number | 02005 | |
Number of page(s) | 9 | |
Section | Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202440002005 | |
Published online | 03 July 2024 |
Utilization of Waste Aggregate for Aggregate Construction for Improvement of Soil Bearing Capacity
1,3 Institute of Energy Infrastructure (IEI), Civil Engineering Dept., College of Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), 43009, Malaysia
2 Malayer University, Faculty of Civil Engineering Dept., Malayer, Iran
4 George Kent (Malaysia) Berhad, George Kent Technology Centre, 1115 Jalan Puchong, Taman Meranti Jaya, 47120 Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia
* Corresponding author: irfah@uniten.edu.my.
Soil bearing capacity is one of the important elements when designing the foundation, bridges, and embankment. The soil bearing capacity needs to be improved due to the weak soil such as clayey silt or silty clay soil that was encountered at the construction site. There are many stabilizations method such as bio treatment of the subgrade, chemical stabilization method, chemical grouting or injection systems, aggregates, or reuse of the waste materials, geosynthetic reinforced embankment and vibro compaction. One of the most common chemical stabilization methods is by using additives to improve soil strength. There are a few wastes material that can be used for strengthening clay soil which is more economic and environmentally friendly. The objective of this research is to improve the soil engineering parameters and bearing capacity using Recycled Waste Aggregates (RWA). In this study, soil samples will be added with different percentage weight of RWA and undergo a few series of laboratory experiments to study its behavior which will be sieve analysis, specific gravity, compaction, and California Bearing Ratio (CBR). The optimization of the percentage of recycled concrete aggregates can be determined from the simulation method. For bearing capacity value, the increase of bearing capacity greatly increases as the percentage of RCA increased and the optimum percentage of RCA is 15%. It concluded that the increasing value of RCA will improve the strength and soil subgrade structures. Recycled Concrete Aggregates have a really great potential material to be used in engineering.
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