• Bablu Kirar
• P.K. Jain
• Rajeev Jain
• Sareesh Chandrawanshi
• B.S. Chauhan

Industrial development in India has necessitated construction of infrastructure facility such as highways, airports seaports and residential, commercial buildings. There is a need to select a good soil conditions for proper safety consideration of all these projects. Such soils exhibit extreme stages of consistency from very hard to very soft when saturated. Expansive soils contain minerals that are capable of absorbing water. They undergo severe volume changes corresponding to changes in moisture content. They swell or increase in their volume when they imbibe water and shrink or reduce in their volume on evaporation of water. Because of their alternate swelling and shrinkage, they result in detrimental cracking of lightly loaded civil engineering structures such as foundations, retaining walls, pavements, airports, side -walks, canal beds and linings. In this article, black cotton (BC) soil stabilization is done with the help of lime and plastic waste material (plastic bottle stirrup) simultaneously in various proportions. First, properties of soil sample which is locally extracted are found out and then optimum percentage of lime is determined. After, getting the optimum percentage of Lime, various proportions of waste plastic are added in the stabilized soil and changes in the properties of the stabilized soil are studied. It is found that lime and plastic waste together enhances the strength significantly. Further, there is considerable reduction in swelling and shrinkage cracking of the soil with the addition of these. Use of plastic waste in soil stabilization may solve the problem of recycling of the plastic bottles and together with lime it gives strong and stable soil behaviour. The study is of practical significance for constructing roads in problematic expansive soil areas.

Stabilization, Expansive Soil (BC Soil), Lime, Waste Plastic Bottles.

"BEHAIVIOR OF EXPANSIVE SOIL WITH LIME AND WASTE PLASTIC", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.1976-1982, March-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103245.pdf

"BEHAIVIOR OF EXPANSIVE SOIL WITH LIME AND WASTE PLASTIC", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no. pp1976-1982, March-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103245.pdf