Volume : II, Issue : X, October - 2013

Innovative Techniques in Ground Improvement

Mohhamad Meekail Khan, Prof. A. K. Dube

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Need for effective ground improvement has been attracting the attention of field consultant and research scholar all over the world for quite some time. For obvious regions ground improvement is becoming necessary as a large variety of soil conditions exist where ever a sensitive and major construction is planned. Better areas have been utilized and the growth of urban centers has become dependent on building, structures in the peripheral areas, presently under different land uses like supporting surface bodies, belonging to bad land conditions or agricultural lands. It has been found that lands reclaimed from water logged areas and from water bodies possess dead or passive soil layers up to a few meters from top, composed of detrimental material, slush and humus rendering the top soil as totally useless for founding any structure upon. Such areas also support raised water table profiles which further reduces the strength of almost dead and passive soil.Such areas which are invariably present in the out skirts of every growing urban center in countries like India. The field engineer, developers, builders and authorities all face the problem of building economical and safer structures or habitation, particularly with the present trends of high rise structures.The problem becomes double edged as a heavy structure has to be placed on the weakest soil, leaving only one option of improving the behavior of such soil materials in order to make it suitable for the planned structure, lots of methods and techniques have since been developed for ground improvement, as already said that no two conditions are similar therefore same techniques or method may not necessarily be effective in both the cases. Innovative methods and techniques therefore have to be created, experimented and monitored.

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Mohhamad Meekail Khan, Prof. A.K.Dube / Innovative Techniques in Ground Improvement / International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.2, Issue.10 October 2013

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