• Gourav
• Pardeep Singh Joia
• Charnjeet Singh

Steel/Iron Industries produces about 11 million tons of slag yearly. This huge amount of waste production puts lot of burden on industrialists as dumping of this waste requires landfills, which are decreasing day by day, also with rapid industrialization and increasing population around the globe causing reduction in good quality land. For the soils with low shear strength, geotechnical engineers facing great problem for construction on weak soils. Few foundation systems are available to support structures on weak soils. For the structures with flexible foundation who can afford good settlement, granular pile is one of effective way of ground improvement. The present study involves use of waste cupola slag as granular pile material. It has been seen in current study involves testing program on 40 mm granular pile both unreinforced and horizontally reinforced with different reinforcement spacing, in weak soils. It has been founded that load bearing capacity of weak soil is increased up to 1.7 to 1.95 times by using unreinforced granular pile and can be increase up to 3.36 times by using horizontally reinforced granular pile

Granular Columns, Slag Aggregates, Horizontal Reinforcement.

"IMPROVEMENT OF WEAK SOIL BY HORIZONTALLY REINFORCED CUPOLA SLAG GRANULAR PILE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.248-251, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCW06047.pdf

"IMPROVEMENT OF WEAK SOIL BY HORIZONTALLY REINFORCED CUPOLA SLAG GRANULAR PILE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp248-251, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCW06047.pdf