Soft soil improvement using chemical-rubber chips mixture

• Main Authors: Marto, Aminaton, Aziz, Norazirah, Jahidin, Mohammed Ridzuan, Mohd. Yunus, Nor Zurairahetty, Kasim, Fauziah, Choy, Soon Tan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit UTM Press 2015
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55531/1/AminatonMarto2015_SoftSoilImprovementUsingChemicalRubber.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55531/; http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/jt.v76.5441

Soft soils are widely found in many areas around the world as well as in Malaysia. Marine clay is one of the problematic soft soils. The marine clay should be pretreated before the construction to enhance the usability and serviceability of highway constructed on this type of soil. This paper presen...