PENGARUH STABILISASI SEMEN PADA MUDROCK TERHADAP NILAI KUAT TEKAN BEBAS
Abstract
Clayshale and siltstone are types of sediment that generally defined as
mudrock. It’s refer to a kind of sedimentary rock that formed from fine grained
material, for instance, clay or silt. Mudrock has high level of hardness, however,
the disadvantage of mudrock is the durability of hydrosphere and atmospheric
exposure that considered very low. This often become an obstruction during the
construction process in the field. Cement stabilization is one of the ways to increase
the bearing capacity and durability against weather cycle. Furthermore, most
studies in the field of mudrock stabilization tehniques have only focused on dry
pulverizing. This research set out to investigate the effectiveness of cement
stabilization and the mixing method on clayshale and siltstone. To determine the
soil compressive strength, unconfined compression strength test performed using
specimen with 10% amount of cement corresponding to its dry unit weight.
Atterberg limit test also performed in order to identify the influence of cement
addition on plasticity index. The results of this investigation show that after
stabilization, all specimen have decreased on liquid limit and increased on plastic
limit, which caused a decrement on mudrock plasticity index. The unconfined
compression strength increased significanly on clayshale and siltstone specimen In
summary, these results show that specimen prepared using spray mixing method
indicate higher unconfined compression strength and lower modulus of elasticity
compared to specimen prepared using dry mixing method.