Investigation of black cotton soil using prototype testing as a clay core material for embankment dams

It is crucial for civil engineers to develop new strategies and methods to fully meet the demands for water in order to meet the steadily increasing demand. Using a scale model of a typical embankment dam, an analysis of the black cotton soil as the inner core material is attempted as a follow-up. In this paper, the analysis of the prototype’s clay core supported by the Murom soil’s slightly permeable outer shell is presented. A prototype dam built on a solid stone foundation to mimic the surrounding area’s original ground conditions. We saw that the downstream face became wet after one hour and forty-five minutes of this experiment, and the dam prototype collapsed after two hours.