Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to attempt to use two industrial wastes; waste foundry sands (WFS) and molasses (M) along with lime (L) to improve the strength characteristics of clayey soil.
Design/methodology/approach
In the first part of the study, the optimum percentages of materials (WFS, molasses, lime) have been found out by conducting differential free swell (DFS) and consistency limit tests on clayey soil by adding various admixtures. The second and third part of the study investigates the compaction behaviour and unconfined compressive strength (UCS) of clayey soil on addition of optimum amount of various materials alone and in combination with each other. Finally, the micro-structural behaviour of addition of optimum percentages of lime, WFS and molasses using Scanning electron microscopic technique has been discussed.
Findings
The laboratory results revealed that the addition of optimum content of lime along with WFS and molasses reduced DFS and plasticity index and increased maximum dry density and UCS values. The microstructural behaviour showed that the presence of lime and molasses filled the voids present in the soil and the addition of WFS helped in providing compact structure, thus improving the strength characteristics.
Practical implications
The study will be helpful in designing low-cost pavement designs for rural roads.
Social implications
The adverse effect of waste materials on environment may be solved by using them in improving the strength characteristics of clayey soils, thereby providing healthy environment to living beings.
Originality/value
The study will help to provide low-cost methods to improve strength characteristics of clayey soil along with the use of waste materials; the disposal of whose is a challenging task.
This paper reports the results of comparisons of simulation runs performed by fourteen organizations on a problem involving production from a horizontal well in a reservoir where coning tendencies are important. The effect of well length and rates on the recovery is examined. In addition, the paper also reports the techniques used by the different participants to calculate the inflow into the horizontal well and the wellbore hydraulics.
A variety of methods was used by the participants to model the inflow into the horizontal wells ranging from the use of productivity indices to grid refinement. A multitude of techniques was also used to calculate wellbore hydraulics while a few participants selected to represent the wellbore by a constant-pressure line sink.
All participants consistently predict a decrease in the coning behavior with an increase in well length. However, variations in the predictions were observed. Although the modelling methods from different participants can be grouped into different categories, no trend in the predicted results, according to the methods used, could be observed.
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