Study on the curing time effect on UCC strength and variation in engineering properties of cement treated soils

50th Indian geotechnical conference

Kala Venkata Uday., Dr.Suresh Kommu, & Pasupuleti Ravi Kumar Teja.

2015-12-19

In the new age ground improvement techniques and methods, pertaining to strengthen weaker soils, to improve the strength characteristics and stiffness of these types of soils, cement stabilization is proved to be more effective. In the cement stabilization, the “curing time” is the key factor in the context of strength gaining by the soil-cement. Keeping this in view, an attempt is made to study the effect of curing time on the strength characteristics of cement treated soil and also to show the engineering behavior in various properties which includes the compaction and the shear strength parameters. Further, laboratory tests have been conducted for various types of soils treated with different types of cements, varying the amount and original soil samples were performed. The results show that the curing time has a significant effect on the unconfined compressive strength qu and it is found that on the addition of cement content, the engineering properties also affected.