Performance Analysis of Jute Fiber As A Micro Reinforcement

Abstract

Soil is a base of the construction, which serves to upholds the design from underneath and to appropriates the heap successfully. Creating strength of sub-level has consistently been a huge perspective in highway and geotechnical designing fields. Clay soil has designing properties like low bearing limit and high compressibility. The improvement of soil properties is fundamental. There are numerous stabilizers to improve the strength of soil. In our daily life, it can be seen that the underlying foundations of vegetation (roots) balance out the close surface soil that has low shear strength, basically due to low compelling pressure, on both level and inclining grounds. To improve the strength of subgrade soil, the utilization of characteristic Jute fiber is a high-level technique and they are modest, locally accessible, and biodegradable. This current examination utilizes jute fiber as a stabilizer. Based on experimental data, it is determined that the unconfined compressive strength (UCC) strength of soil increases with adding jute and maximum dry density (MDD) of soil decrease and optimum moisture content (OMC) of the soil increases. It is found that jute fiber mixed with soil layer-wise gives better strength as compared to core and random mixing.