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Use of Marginal Materials in Road Works
Use of Marginal Materials in Road Works
Received: October 29, 2015 Accepted: November 19, 2015 Online: December 31, 2015
Abstract Introduction
Hard stone is being used as a road construction Conventionally, hard stone has been used as
material for all categories of roads in the country. a road construction material for all categories
Sources of conventionally used hard stone are of roads in the country. Although the hard
depleting very fast and in many parts of the stone has all the attributes of a good
country, the leads involved are very long. On the construction material, both in regard to
other hand there are different types of soils and
strength and durability, its sources are
low grade materials available in the country
depleting fast. Moreover, in many parts of
which may be used to advantage in road
the country, the leads involved are so long
construction.
that they make the construction costs
prohibitive. It is not uncommon in in several
areas that leads of the order of 200 kms. are
involved from the nearest hard stone quarry.
Therefore, it is necessary to go in for locally
available low grade materials especially for
low volume roads where the construction
costs have to be kept low.
Pavement Materials
All India surveys carried out for different
types of soils and low grade materials
encountered in the country reveal that there is
a wide variety of soil types as well as gravels,
moorums and naturally occurring soft
aggregates which can be used to advantage in
road construction.
For correspondence: Broadly, the soil types in the country can be
CSIR - Central Road Research Institute, New Delhi categorized as under:
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In case the available materials meet the incorporated in the lower layers of road
requirements, these can be used as such. pavements. The various methods which can
Otherwise, the local materials have to be be adopted to improve the local soils and
processed with a view to improve their inferior aggregates are as under:-
engineering properties so that these can be
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