Improving the physical and mechanical properties of fortified soil for road construction in the forest zone

Abstract

In order to purposefully control the processes that determine the formation of the structure and properties of cement soils, studies were carried out on the strengthening of soils with Portland cement with a water-soluble additive hydropropylene emulsion (WHE). The purpose of the laboratory studies was to study the change in the ultimate strength in compression, water saturation and frost resistance of cement soils, depending on the particle size distribution of the original soil, the amount of mineral binder-Portland cement and the WHE additive. Based on the results of the research, soil strengthening with Portland cement with WHE additive allows to form a complex crystallization-coagulation structure of materials with the required values of compressive strength, water saturation and frost resistance, depending on the dosages of binding components for given climatic and transport-operating conditions. The effectiveness of the WHE additive increases with increasing dispersion of soils, so the technology of strengthening of clay soils in conditions of wet and acidic soils of the forest zone for the construction of forest roads is promising. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.