A Study on Behavior of Fine Grained Soil Mix with Pond Ash

Due to rapid industrialization energy generation is increasing day by day. This energy generation by numerous power plants causes production of industrial waste. Generation of these wastes is a big threat to our society and environment. So we either have to find ways to dump these wastes safely or to use these wastes in a constructive manner. Due to specific advantages, materials like fly ash, pond ash have been considered as a replacement to natural soils. Soil stabilization is any process which improves the physical properties of soil, such as increasing bearing capacity, shear strength etc. which can be done by addition of suitable admixtures like cement, lime and waste materials like Pond ash etc. In this paper, the test results such as Index properties, Proctors compaction, and California Bering Ratio obtained on clayey soil mixed at different proportions of pond ash are presented and discussed. From the results, it is observed that at optimum percentages, i.e., 80% soil and 20% pond as hit noticed that there is a marked improvement in the strength of soil. The combination of 80% soil and 20% pond ash addition at the optimum moisture content to the clay soil is found to be a suitable measure to increase the strength of the soil.