Durability of Active Soil Stabilized with Nanomaterial

Several efforts are being put forward to manage the swell-shrink characteristics of active soils in Nigeria's Niger Delta. These dynamic or expanding soils have an impact on all types of infrastructure, including roads built with or put on them. The wetting-drying durability of active soil stabilized using nanomaterial, an organo-silane compound containing nonfunctional organic trialkoxy groups and R, (alkyl) group is investigated in this article. This research focuses on more efficient exploitation of the region's abundant active soils for sustainable civil engineering practice. The influence of soil modification on the strength behavior and durability of active soil improves with nanomaterial combination throughout wetting-drying cycles is of special interest. Different cylindrical stabilized soil samples were constructed in nanomaterial water ratios of 1:250, 1:200, 1:150, 1:100, and 1:50. Unconfined compressive strength tests were performed on samples that had been untreated and treated with nanomaterial and cured for a minimum of 1 day and 7 days. The results reveal that as the nanomaterial content and cure period increased, so did the compressive strength. Compressive strength values were higher in 7-day cure specimens than in 1-day cure specimens. UCS values increased from 6.90 kN/m2 to 185.9 kN/m2 with the application of the stabilizer, the durability improved significantly from low values in excess of 37.1 percent at low content to extremely high values in excess of 80 percent with greater nanomaterial content. Statistical tests on effects on nanomaterial performed at 95% confidence limit on the addition of different proportions of nanomaterial to the soil have a significant effect on 7- day cure, samples only from nanomaterial content greater than or equal to 1:50