Expansive soils are problematic due to the performances of their clay mineral constituent,
which makes them exhibit the shrink-swell characteristics. The shrink-swell behaviours …

Soil improvement using biopolymers has attracted considerable attention in recent years,
with the aim to reduce the harmful environmental effects of traditional materials, such as …

Soil stabilization is a technique to improve the engineering and geotechnical properties of
soils such as mechanical strength, permeability, compressibility, durability and plasticity …

The rate at which the construction industry explores and consumes non-renewable natural
aggregates and other industrial products such as bitumen, lime, and cement during …

Around the world flexible pavement is the most favored pavement structure to build road and
highways. A massive amount of non-renewable materials and industrial products like …

The mining industry produces a large amount of mine waste rock and tailings, which pose a
severe threat to the environment. The most common way for the disposal of these industrial …

Expansive soils, also known as swell-shrink soils, are one of the most problematic soils in
highway construction and exhibit significant volume changes by swelling and shrinking …

The mining industry manages large volumes of tailings, sludge, and residues that represent
a huge environmental issue. This fact has prompted research into valorization of these …

It has always been a challenge for civil engineers to lay roads in the areas covered by
expansive soil. The expansive soil undergoes extreme phase changes from being hard in …

Laterite soil is commonly used as a fill or pavement material. However, it tends to lose its
natural bonding and experiences large deformation when subjected to cyclic rainy (wet) and …