Expansive soils exhibit detrimental swelling and shrinking characteristics in response to variations water content, posing a threat engineering safety. Utilizing industrial solid waste for improving the properties of expansive soil presents promising solution due its low pollution high recoverability. This paper reviews progress research on various wastes stabilizing soil. The review comprehens...

The problem of damage to structures in expansive soils is world wide. These soils are very often referred as black cotton soils. The properties of black cotton soil may be improved to make the soil suitable for construction purposes. There are several techniques to improve the soil properties like sand cushions, CNS layer techniques, sand columns, stone columns, vibration techniques and by addi...

Expansive soils exist in many countries worldwide, and their characteristics make them exceedingly difficult to engineer. Due its significant swelling shrinkage characteristics, expansive soil defies of the stabilization solutions available engineers. Differential heave or settlement occurs when swells shrinks, causing severe damage foundations, buildings, roadways, retaining structures. In suc...

expansive soils show swelling and shrinkage behavior when subjected to cyclic wetting and drying. the variation in water content influence the volume change in this kind of soil. these volume changes can cause ground movement which may result in damage to the buildings and structures. to study the behavior, a number of successive wetting-drying cycles were conducted on a statically compacted ex...