SOIL STABILIZATION TO PREVENT SLAKING OF MUD-STONE GRAVELY SOIL IN TERRE-ARMEEE EMBANKMENT

Abstract

This paper presents a example of the soil stabilization to prevent the slaking of gravely mud-stone soil as embankment material on-site fill in construction of Terre-Armee reinforced earth wall embankment. A series of compressibility tests and unconfined compressive tests were carried out to investigate the effect of cement stabilization to prevent the slaking of gravely mud-stone soil.
The results shows that the settlement due to the slaking of mud-rock soil is controlled by the addition of cement stabilizer. A series of pull-out shear tests in laboratory and field also were carried out to investigate the pull-out frictional characteristics of strip plate of Terre-armee method in compacted mud-stone soils.