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Figure 1. Impact of adding lime with different percentages on soil plastic and contraction characteristics
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Figure 2. Impact of adding lime with different percentages on soil plastic and contraction characteristics
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Figure 3. Impact of adding lime with different percentages on soil plastic and contraction characteristics
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Figure 4. Impact of adding lime with different percentages on soil plastic and contraction characteristics
with PI=40
Discussion and Conclusion
In various experiments, swollen soils were stabilized with different plasticity indices using additive lime
in various percentages, and following were concluded:
a. Adding lime to swollen soil samples leads to increasing plasticity limits and optimal moisture
percentage
b. Adding lime to swollen soil samples leads to decreased limits of smoothness which is
accompanied by increase in soils with plasticity index 20, and reduction on soils with plasticity
index 40 is more prominent than other samples.
c. Adding lime to swollen soil samples leads to contraction limit increase.
d. Adding lime to swollen soil samples leads to reduced plasticity index in clay soils of the region.
This reduction in soils with plasticity index 20 is with milder slope compared to other soil
samples.
e. The conclusion is that the best and most optimal amount of lime addition in the soils with
plasticity index 20 and 30 is13 percentage of lime addition weight. It is 9 percentage n soils with
plasticity index 35 and it is 5 percentages in soils with plasticity index 40.
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