Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism

Peat soil is well known as problematic soil because of its poor geotechnical properties such as high water content, low shear strength, high organic matter, low bearing capacity and high compressibility. These properties make the soil as one of the most difficult soils to deal with for peat soil...

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Main Author: Ahmad Rashidi, Zaty Amirah
Format: Final Year Project
Language: English
Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Record Id / ISBN-0: utp-utpedia.23024 /
Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2017
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling utp-utpedia.230242022-03-11T04:15:09Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/23024/ Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism Ahmad Rashidi, Zaty Amirah TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Peat soil is well known as problematic soil because of its poor geotechnical properties such as high water content, low shear strength, high organic matter, low bearing capacity and high compressibility. These properties make the soil as one of the most difficult soils to deal with for peat soil causes excessive settlement under constant load. Due to these geotechnical issues of the peat soil, improvement of the soil is essential in order to enhance its engineering properties so that the soil can act as soil foundation. In this research, Effective Microorganism (EM) is used as the soil stabilizer in order to investigate the optimum mix proportion of EM as the stabilizing agent on peat soil. The objective of this research is to determine the strength effects of 1%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% of EM concentration with a constant optimum moisture content which is 43.5%. Basic soil tests such as moisture content, specific gravity, plastic limit, liquid limit and compaction test together with a series of unconfined compression tests were conducted on the peat soil mixtures. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2017-09 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/23024/1/1.%20Final%20Dissertation%20ZatyAmirah_19019%20finalized.pdf Ahmad Rashidi, Zaty Amirah (2017) Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism. Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Submitted)
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Ahmad Rashidi, Zaty Amirah
Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism
description Peat soil is well known as problematic soil because of its poor geotechnical properties such as high water content, low shear strength, high organic matter, low bearing capacity and high compressibility. These properties make the soil as one of the most difficult soils to deal with for peat soil causes excessive settlement under constant load. Due to these geotechnical issues of the peat soil, improvement of the soil is essential in order to enhance its engineering properties so that the soil can act as soil foundation. In this research, Effective Microorganism (EM) is used as the soil stabilizer in order to investigate the optimum mix proportion of EM as the stabilizing agent on peat soil. The objective of this research is to determine the strength effects of 1%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% of EM concentration with a constant optimum moisture content which is 43.5%. Basic soil tests such as moisture content, specific gravity, plastic limit, liquid limit and compaction test together with a series of unconfined compression tests were conducted on the peat soil mixtures.
format Final Year Project
author Ahmad Rashidi, Zaty Amirah
author_sort Ahmad Rashidi, Zaty Amirah
title Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism
title_short Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism
title_full Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism
title_fullStr Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism
title_full_unstemmed Preliminary Study of Stabilization of Peat Soil Using Effective Microorganism
title_sort preliminary study of stabilization of peat soil using effective microorganism
publisher Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
publishDate 2017
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/23024/1/1.%20Final%20Dissertation%20ZatyAmirah_19019%20finalized.pdf
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