Influence of Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag and Polypropylene Fibers on Engineering Properties of Clay Soil

It has become an utmost important to make soil fit to bear the heavy load coming from modern infrastructures and roads and highways, All the pre available soils, sometimes, are not fit to withstand heavy loads as they have weak strength due to more cohesion/ swelling properties or very densely packed particles. Therefore, the exploration of soil properties before and after its stabilization is needed. In current experimental program, raw soil was collected and its stabilization was carried out with the help of Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag and Polypropylene fibers. Various strength and other engineering parameters were determined in laboratory but only physical properties of Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag and Polypropylene fibers were explored during this study. Therefore, from the various results obtained from different laboratory tests, it was concluded that the optimum percentage of Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag and Polypropylene fibers are 40% and 0.50% respectively as at this proportions best results were attained. So, it is highly recommended that 40% Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag and 0.50% Polypropylene fibers of waste materials by dry weight of soil should be utilized for enhancing the different properties of raw soil.