CHAPTER -3 LITERATURE REVIEW
3.1 INTRODUCTION: The soil which contains the silt and clay particles show considerable sign of distress accompanied by loss of strength of the soil during rainy seasons and shrinkage during summer. Due to this reason, such soils need treatment to use as engineering materials. Black cotton soil is the type of soil which lose their strength during rainy season due to their expansive behavior.
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3.2 FLY ASH STABILIZATION: - Fly ash itself has less cementitious value but it reacts chemically and form cementitious compound in presence of moisture. Cementitious compound formed improves the strength and compressibility of soil (Karthik et al.,
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Author found that the optimum ratio of fly ash with clayey soil is 15% by weight of soil. A dramatic reduction in the properties of soil is seen for 0% to 15% of fly ash content but no noticeable decline appear in the range 15% to 20% of fly ash content. For compaction, the dry density and OMC were measured for various fly ash ratios. The dry density raise as the fly ash increases up to 15%, then reduced to 1.53 at 20% of fly ash. The liquid limit decreased from 55% to 48% for increase of fly ash from 0% to 15% by weight. Plasticity Index changes from 30% to 13% for addition of 0% to 15% of fly ash. C.B.R value of soil changes from 3% to …show more content…
Soil has specific gravity 2.56, Liquid limit 48.5%, Plastic limit 22.7%, Plasticity Index 25.8%, Shrinkage limit 8.61%. Authors made a series of laboratory experiments on 5% lime mixed with 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% of RHA by weight of dry soil. The CBR value is increased by 287.62% and unconfined compressive strength is improved by 30%. The Differential free swell index is decreased by 86.92% with increase of RHA form 10 to 20%.
Yadu and Tripathi (2013) stabilized the soft soil, collected from Tatibandh-Atari, rural road of Raipur Chhattisgarh, by the use of Granulated blast furnace slag and fly ash. The soil was classified as CI-MI as per Indian standard classification system. Different amount of GBS, i.e. 3, 6 and 9% with different amount of fly ash i.e. 3%, 6%, 9% and 12% were used to stabilize the soil. Based on compaction and CBR test, authors concluded that the optimum amount of GBS with fly ash was a 3% fly ash and 6%
Burns Bog is a domed bog which is approximately 3000 hectares in size and is mostly covered by peat. Under this peat, is a layer of deltaic sand which was deposited from the creation of the Fraser River over 5000 years ago (Comprehensive Guide to Burns Bog). This was when the Fraser River was a low wetland and as flooding occurred, sediments were carried and accumulated. Over the past 150 years, dykes and draining changes have impacted the vegetation (more dryer plants). This is a reason why only two-thirds of the bog remains today.
Sherpa fire in Santa Barbara grows to 4,000 acres overnight, putting about 140 homes at risk and closing down major freeways according to federal officials. The fire started on Wednesday afternoon on coastal hills north of Santa Barbara. It had moved through overgrown hillsides and canyons that have not been burned in over 60 years because of the hot and dry weather and notorious “sundowner” winds. Sundowners, similar to Santa Ana winds, fuel many of the fires in the Santa Barbara County.
The Burn Journals, a memoir written by Brent Runyon, leaves a lot of impressions on the readers about having perseverance and determination. At the age of 14, Brent attempted to commit suicide by dousing himself in gasoline. After that, he had to receive treatment through the multiple hospitals he stayed in. Brent Runyon is able to create his real-life experience into an intriguing story that is also able to teach the readers a message to escape hardship.
The infamous winds of Santa Ana repeatedly help develop a sky ridden with smoke, but for many on the golden coast this is just a typical day. The winds spiral into flames catching among the wild flowers that flourish on the vast valleys of California. These winds are unstoppable. However, it seems as if many refuse this idea in hopes that the land in california will become untouched by the dry winds if humans decide to build. It seems as if no one realizes that the ash from last year will be buried under tar at first, but soon enough the winds will take over the land and a new layer of ash will settle..
During the Dust Bowl, the dust became a serious threat to health and life .When dust entered the lunge, the moisture them it into mud that attached to the organ. Many people suffered from breathing problems especially children. Livestock also suffered from the dusty air and many died from such unbearable environmental conditions. Scientist predicted that the illness resulted invisible microorganisms such as bacteria or germs that lived and multiplied in dust rather from the dusty clouds.
In preparation for this paper I chose to read Fire in the ashes: twenty five years among the poorest children in America by Jonathan Kozol. In this book Kozol has followed these children and their family’s lives for the past twenty five years. In his writing Kozol portrays a point of view most from his background and standing would not be capable of having. He portrays what life is like for those who have been let down by the system that was meant to protect them. Kozols writing style can be very blunt at times, not for shock value, but for the sake of portraying these children’s realities, and not sugarcoating the inequalities that they are faced with.
The Dust Bowl of the 1930 's caused devastation for the mid-west at the time. It went on in Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas; however, slimmer areas were actually affected by the Dust Bowl like the Oklahoma panhandle, the Texas panhandle, the Northeast of New Mexico, the Southeast of Colorado, and the western third of Kansas. The drought that caused the Dust Bowl affected about 27 states and covered about 75% of the country. It was in April of 1934 that Black Sunday, the worst storm of the Dust Bowl, occurred. Shortly after President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the Conservation Act.
The Dust Bowl stole the lives of many. It impacted thousands of farmers, children, adults, and land. The Dust Bowl was a time of suffering and challenges. The main challenge, was just staying alive. This is how it got its famous name “black blizzard” since it looked like a large black cloud.
The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936, however in some places it lasted until 1940. The Dust Bowl was caused by a severe drought also coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation or other techniques to prevent erosion. Deep plowing of the top soil of the Great Plains had killed the natural grass that normally kept the soil in place and trapped moisture even during the period of droughts and high winds.
Incoming! There was a report of a small church fire at Windrix Hill, Oklahoma. The fire started at 2:00 pm on Friday 1965. It was reported as being caused by a burning cigarette left on the floor. Three boys, Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Dallas Minston were on the run for a murder of a Soc named Bob Sheldon.
“Brush Fire” by Linda Thomas and “Santa Ana” by Joan didion are essays written about the Santa Ana winds of southern California. These malevolent winds start as a cool high pressure front in the Great Basin east of California. As the wind from the high pressure system fall down the back side of the mountains east of southern California. As the winds fall down the west side of the mountains they are warmed by the desert and sun and increase in temperature and speed as they wind through the narrow mountain passes and canyons producing an extremely hot dry wind that torments Southern California and northern Baja Mexico. Both Thomas and Didion have different views on the wind they seem to agree on one thing, that everyone knows when the winds are
Based on these results, it is hypothesized that if the amount of topsoil increases by 25% then plant growth increases because topsoil contains essential nutrients required for proper plant
Wasteland is a documentary by Lucy Walker that depicts the lives of selected garbage pickers in Jardim Gramacho – a massive dumpsite found in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The film is about Vik Muniz’s 2-year journey back to his home country seeking to give back to an impoverished community through making images out of an unusual material – trash. The film featured 7 garbage pickers from the landfill, and each has a story that brought them to their current places. One unique thing about the whole creative process is that the pickers themselves became part of it. Vik imagined that as they work on their own and each other’s images, the pickers will not only show themselves to a broader world that is for now comfortably oblivious of their existence, but also see themselves differently (Fuchs, 2010).
Van Gogh painted “Skull of a skeleton with a burning cigarette” in 1886, while still studying art. It is highly likely that the skeleton was painted while he was studying anatomy at the royal academy of fine arts. The painting itself is bold, displaying a slightly turned head and shoulders of a rather earthily coloured skeleton, gripping between its teeth what appears to be a burning cigarette. In stark contrast to the bright skeleton is the very dark background which is relatively plain, perhaps painted this way in order to make the skeleton the main article.
The rapid destruction of woodlands or removal of trees from forests is known as deforestation. Every year, vast areas of forests are cleared to make way for agriculture and development. Tropical rainforests play important ecological roles: 1. Rainforests are the oldest ecosystems on Earth and house almost half of the world’s flora and fauna. 2.