Effect of Flyash Stabilisation on Design of Flexible Road Pavement
Periodic Research (P:
ISSN No. 2231-0045 RNI No. UPBIL/2012/55438 VOL.-IV, ISSUE-III, February-2016 E:
ISSN No. 2349-9435)
Abstract
Associate Professor, Deptt. of Civil Engineering, Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
The surface of the roadway should be stable and non-yielding, to allow heavy wheel load of road traffic. The road surface should also be even along the longitudinal profile to enable the fast vehicles to move safely and comfortably at the design speed. The earth road may not be able to fulfill any of the above requirements, especially during the varying conditions of traffic loads and the weather. At high moisture contents, the soil becomes weaker and soft and starts yielding under heavy wheel loads, thus increasing the tractive resistance. The unevenness and undulations of the surface along the longitudinal profile of the road causes vertical oscillations in the fast moving automobiles increasing the fuel consumption and the wear of the vehicle components resulting in considerable increases in the vehicle operation cost. Apart, form this uneven pavements surface cause discomfort and fatigue to the passengers of fast moving vehicles and cyclists. Therefore, in order to provide a stable and even surface for the traffic, the roadway is provided with a suitably designed and constructed pavements structure. Thus a pavements consisting of a few layers of pavements materials is constructed over a prepared soil sub-grade to serve as a carriageway. In this paper an attempt has been made to find the routine properties and strength characteristics of soil of Muzaffarpur. The fiyash available as a byproduct of the thermal power station at Kanti, Muzaffarpur has been analysed. The effect of soil properties after mixing flyash with soil in different percentages has been studied. Flexible pavement thickness has been designed with different methods for natural soils as well as soil stabilised with different percentages of flyash. On the basis of analysis and design percentage saving in material of pavement (in the term of thickness) in the case of stabilised with flyash as compared to that of natural soil has been found out. Based on conclusion, it has been concluded that the flyash can be used for the economical pavement design and construction.
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