ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNOLOGY

CE215007
DREDGED MATERIAL:GEOTECHNICAL
ISSUES AND STABILIZATION METHODS

COURSE INSTRUCTOR PRESENTED BY

GULSHAN KUMAR
DR. KANNAN IYER
181010012005
INTRODUCTION:

• Dredging is the excavation of material from a water bodies.

• Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land
and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing dams,
dikes, and other controls for streams and shorelines.
Dredging has significant geotechnical issues:
• Dewatering of dredged material.
• Depending upon the nature of the dredged material, its disturbance from the sea bed may
lead to changes in the chemical composition of the water.
• Selection of proper site for disposal of dredged material.
• Stabilisation of dredged material.
• Dredged material may contain toxic chemicals, this affect the disposal area.

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STABILIZATION METHODS:
1.BY USING FLYASH:
• Fly ash substantially improved the geotechnical properties of sediments because of its pozollonic
reaction and micro-filler action. The void spaces in the matrix structure of stabilized material got
filled up due to hydration of fly ash resulting in the formation of hydrated product.
• A series of laboratory tests were conducted on the raw dredged materials (RDMs)
stabilized with different fly ash contents (i.e., 10%, 20%, and 30%, by weight of dry soil)
and curing times (i.e., 2 hours, 7 days, and 28 days).
• Increasing fly ash content decreased the plasticity index and improved engineering
properties of dredged material.
• Increasing fly ash content from 0% to 30% decreased the plasticity index ,decreased the
optimum water content and increased the maximum dry unit weight. IMAGES SOURCE

Engineering Properties of
Dredged Materials Stabilized
with Fly Ash Hua Yu1 , Jie Yin2 ,
Ali Soleimanbeigi3a , William J.
Likos3b, and Tuncer B. Edil4

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2 .BY USING CEMENT:
• Cement is often used as an additive to improve the strength and stiffness of soft clayey soils.
• High cement content results in substantial changes in the mechanical properties of marginal/weak soils.
• The strength characteristics of fly ash-stabilized soil could be substantially improved with a small
addition of cement with gain in strength and modulus increasing as cement content increases, but
decreasing as fly ash content increases.
• The addition of 20% cement results in the increase in strength of the dredged soil suitable for the
engineering applications .
• Addition of cement and age of curing increased the unconfined compressive strength and CBR of
dredging sediment stabilized by cement and the composite was suitable for road subbase.
• Cement stabilizer provided more strength to the composite than lime, and 6% cement content was
more beneficial.

. Unconfined compressive
strength of cement–fly
Unconfined compressive ash– dredged material at
strength of cement–fly ash– 1:6:12 with curing period
dredged material at 1:5:10 with
curing period
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3.Effect of addition of fiber in cement–fly ash–dredged material:

• Natural and artificial fibers can be utilized to improve the strength (especially tensile) of material
possessing poor geotechnical characteristics.
• fine sand with sub-rounded particles showed a more favorable response to fiber reinforcement than
medium sand with sub-angular particles. Inclusion of fibers in silty sand and pond ash increased the peak
compressive strength, CBR value, peak friction angle and ductility of the specimens
• With the addition of fiber to the optimum cement–fly ash–dredged material (1:6:12), the unconfined
compressive strength increased to 689 kPa from 668 kPa after 7 days, 1299 kPa from 1151 kPa after 28
days, 1404 kPa from 1328 kPa after 56 days and 1994 kPa from 1950 kPa after 90 days .
• The introduction of fiber reinforcement in cement–fly ash–dredged material composite improved the
unconfined compressive strength . The fibers have binding effect in the composite inhibiting the
propagation of tension cracks and deformation. Thus, the interface friction developed due to the
interactions between the fiber surface and the hydrated products in the composite results in an increase in
strength.
Split tensile
Unconfined compressive
strength of cement–
strength of 1:6:12 cement–fly fly ash–dredged
ash–dredged material consisting material at 1:6:12
of 0.2% fiber with curing period with curing period

ALL IMAGES SOURCES FROM: 5

Laboratory study on sustainable use of cement–fly ash–
polypropylene fiber-stabilized dredged material by Rachit
Sharma.
 REFERENCE:
1. Laboratory study on sustainable use of cement–fly ash–polypropylene fiber-stabilized
dredged material by Rachit Sharma

2. Innovations in stabilization treatment of dredged materials by C.M Wilk

3.DREDGE MATERIAL STABILIZATION USING THE POZZOLANIC OR SULFO-

POZZOLANIC REACTION OF LIME BY-PRODUCTS TO MAKE AN ENGINEERED
STRUCTURAL FILL Joel H. Beeghly, Michael Schrock.

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