Research Article
Amelioration Effect of Fly Ash and Powdered Ground Steel Slag for Improving Expansive Subgrade Soil
Table 1
The chemical characterization of materials used.
| Composition | Expansive soil | Fly ash | GGBFS |
| SiO2 | 58.90 | 39.46 | 46.14 | Al2O3 | 18.54 | 14.32 | 18.52 | Fe2O3 | 8.40 | 5.38 | 13.24 | CaO | 0.90 | 24.28 | 16.76 | MgO | 1.62 | 3.34 | 2.29 | Na2O | 0.34 | 1.26 | 0.92 | K2O | 0.76 | 2.44 | 1.70 | MnO | 0.18 | 0.28 | 4.36 | P2O5 | 0.04 | 1.25 | 0.82 | TiO2 | <0.01 | 0.04 | 0.07 | H2O | 2.05 | 0.11 | 0.16 | LOI | 9.28 | 7.04 | 3.13 |
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