• MUNNANGI RAVI TEJA
• B. Pavan Kalyan,
• D. Mahendar
• S. Gopi Krishna
• M.SAI KUMAR REDDY

Soil reinforcement has been introduced into the field of geotechnical engineering for many years in order to enhance the properties of ground soil in specific engineering projects. Traditional geosynthetics such as geotextile, geogrid etc. have been proved to be efficient, and they are being increasingly used in geotechnical engineering but the use of glass fibers in soil have only started recently. Though some research have been done with a few types of soil, still the volume of study is rather scanty compared to other soil reinforcing materials. Moreover, the effect of randomly distributed glass fibers acting as reinforcement material seems to be an interesting concept due to the absence of potential planes of weakness that can develop parallel to oriented reinforcement. This study reveals around the reinforcement of soil by glass fiber and the comparison between engineering properties before and after stabilization. The study is carried out to evaluate the effects of glass fiber on shear strength of soil by carrying out unconfined compression test and CBR tests on soils. Disturbed samples are collected from a location near the pond at Ghatkear Hyderabad. In laboratory, testing of liquid limit, specific gravity along with grain size distribution is carried out for the classification of soil. For different percentage of glass fiber, CBR test and unconfined compression test are carried out for different fractions of glass fiber. The experimental results with and without glass fiber reinforcement are compared to obtain optimum quantity of fiber reinforcement (% of soil sample) required to stabilize a weak soil along with the inference about effect on bearing capacity and shear strength.

CBR, Glass fiber, reinforcement, unconfined compression test.

"ENHANCEMENT OF SOIL CHARACTERISTICS USING GLASS FIBERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.580-585, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904F91.pdf

"ENHANCEMENT OF SOIL CHARACTERISTICS USING GLASS FIBERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp580-585, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904F91.pdf