IMPROVEMENT OF HIGH PLASTICITY CLAY BY USING FILTER SLUDGE

Year 2023, Volume: 11 Issue: 4, 973 - 985, 01.12.2023

İlyas Özkan , Yavuz Yenginar

https://doi.org/10.36306/konjes.1311189

Abstract

Filter sludge (FS) is a waste material that occurs during sugar production in the sugar industry, and since it is not used anywhere, it creates a problem due to storage costs and environmental damage. In the present study, high plasticity clay was stabilized with a filter sludge which has never been used for soil stabilization in field cases. The changes in the geotechnical properties of a high plasticity clay (CH) with the additive of filter sludge (FS) were investigated. The amount of FS mixed into CH soil is 3-6-9-12-15% by dry weight of the soil. Changes in geotechnical properties such as consistency limits, compaction parameters, strength, swelling potential, CBR value of improved soils were determined. The plastic limit and optimum water content increase as the FS content added to the soil increases; liquid limit, plasticity index, and maximum dry density decrease. Improved soil strength increases as the curing time and FS amount increase, and the highest strength was obtained with 15% of FS. At the optimum additive ratio, the unconfined compressive strength increases by 33%. The swelling percentage of CH clay decreases from 42.5% to 20%. According to the wet CBR test results, the bearing capacity of the improved soil increased from %1.1 to %4.4. As a result of this study, it was seen that the FS waste material improved the geotechnical properties of the soil.

Keywords

Clay, Filter Sludge, Soil Stabilization, Strength, Swelling Potential

Supporting Institution

Necmettin Erbakan University Scientific Research Projects Coordinatorship (NEÜ BAP)

Project Number

Grant No: 221219003

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