Effect of Combined Stabilization by Lime and Cement on Hydraulic Properties of Clayey Soil Selected From Mosul Area

AbstractThis paper is aimed to study some of the hydraulic properties (permeability and water retention) of a stabilized clayey soil selected from Mosul area. The optimum lime stabilization percentage was found to be 4 %. Cement amounts of 6 % and 18 % are needed to achieve a minimum unconfined compressive strength of 1400 and 5600 kParespectively suggested limits for stabilized soil suitable as a base course. For the same indicated range of strength, a combination of lime-cement ratios of 1-3 % and 2-9 % respectively were found to be sufficient to achieve this limit.Permeability of natural soil was found to increase with treatment of lime, cement and lime-cement. A maximum increasing in permeability about 17 fold was found using 4 % lime. While the permeability was 1.2 folds as a minimum increase when treating the soil with 18 % cement. The soil-water characteristics curve shows that (S-Shape) curves were maintained for natural and stabilized soil.