SOME FACTORS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ON THE DESIGN OF EXPANSIVE SOIL EMBANKMENT
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Abstract
Expansive soil is a kind of special soil. For its poor engineering property, some factors should be considered when it is used to construct expressway. In this paper, the problems of the design of embankment are discussed from soil property, the optimum water content, controlling of the degree of compaction, the influence of witting-drying cycle and the prevention of asymmetrical settlement.
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