Enhancing the Engineering Properties of Black Cotton Soil by Using Magnesium Chloride

Black cotton soils are fundamentally helpless to hinder the volumetric changes as the moisture content changes. These soils are forming vital issues to the engineering structures. Such soils show excessive volume changes after combining with water. The black cotton soil has a poor encouraging limit and huge change in volume on varieties of moisture content. Such black cotton soils ought to be improved to make them appropriate for construction exercises. This paper introduces the impact of magnesium chloride (MgCl2) on compaction qualities, Atterberg’s limit, California bearing proportion, standard proctor compaction test, unconfined compressive quality parameters and swelling pressure characteristics. Plastic limit decreases with decrease in the amount of magnesium chloride. The dry density and CBR values of soil stabilized with 8% MgCl2 increased approximately 22 and 223% correspondingly. Coming from the inspection of test outcomes it was discovered that fluid utmost, versatility list, ideal dampness content diminished and most extreme dry thickness, California bearing proportion and edge of inward grating expanded with an expansion in MgCl2.