Date of Award
5-1972
Degree Type
Report
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Committee Chair(s)
William A. Gordon
Committee
William A. Gordon
Committee
Derle J. Thorpe
Committee
Fred W. Kiefer
Abstract
Soil-Cement is not a new material; its low cost but high quality make it well-known and the use of this material for highway, dam, and airfield purposes increases every year. The origin of the idea of mixing soil and cement to produce a structural material has not been definitely established; informal records show that mixing soil and cement was tried in Iowa, Ohio, Texas and probably in other places by 1920 (1). Since the first controlled soil-cement construction was carried out near Johnsonville, South Carolina in 1935 (2), soil-cement has been considered a valuable engineering material. It is now an accepted practice to denote the result of adding cement to soil as a soil-cement mixture (3), or in other words, soil-cement is the stabilization of soil with Portland cement, and water. As the cement hydrates, the mixture becomes a hard, durable paving material (4).
Recommended Citation
Jarernswan, Vongchai, "The Use of Soil-Cement as a Highway Material" (1972). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 1595.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/1595
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