Optimum Soil Grading for the Soil-Cement Blocks

Reddy, Venkatarama BV and Lal, Richardson and Rao, Nanjunda KS (2007) Optimum Soil Grading for the Soil-Cement Blocks. In: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 19 (2). pp. 139-148.

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Abstract

Large numbers of soil-cement block masonry buildings exist in India and many other countries. The paper deals with an experimental study on the influence of soil grading on the characteristics of soil-cement blocks and shear-bond strength of soil-cement block masonry triplets. Influence of clay content of the soil-cement block on strength, absorption and durability characteristics, and interfacial mortar-block bond strength has been examined. Some of the major conclusions of the study are: (1) optimum clay content leading to maximum strength is in the range of 14–16%; (2) saturated water content of the blocks increases with increase in clay content of the block; (3) initial rate of absorption decreases with increase in clay content of the block; (4) weight loss after ASTM wire scratch test is minimum when the clay content of the block is about 16%; and (5) optimum clay content for the highest modulus for the blocks and for highest shear-bond strength is about 16%.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Society of Civil Engineers
Keywords:	Soil-cement;Compressive strength;Durability;Soil stabilization;Bonding strength;Stress strain relations
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:35
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/id/eprint/9783

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