A STUDY ON UTILIZATION OF BRICK DUST FOR SOIL STABILIZATION

Abstract

With the expanding population and the decrease of accessible land, to an ever-increasing extent development
of building and other structural designing structures must be done on weak and soft soil. The weak soil has low
bearing strength and high shrinkage, and swelling an extraordinary decent variety of ground improvement systems
such as soil stabilization is done to enhance the properties of soil. To solve the above problem by replacing the clay
soil with the additive in different percentage of brick dust 5%,10%,15%,20%,25 %, 30% by weight and the test are
performed on plain soil and the additive soil. The tests are liquid limit test, plastic test, proctor test, California bearing
ratio test. A comparison of plain clay soil and the soil mixed with burnt brick dust is performed which shows us that
burnt brick enhance a property of clay soil. Burnt brick dust is a waste material generated from the brick kiln and the
disposal of brick dust is an issue for our environment in this study the disposal of brick waste with its effective use in
soil stabilization.