“…Changes in soil moisture conditions can lead to significant changes in its volume change (Abbas et al, 2022), which could cause damages for foundations, slopes, tunnels, etc. (Liu et al, 2022;Mohammad et al, 2022;Sarker and Wang, 2022). Scholars proposed different methods to reduce the expansion potential of these soils such as by adding cement, lime, fly ash and other materials into the soil to improve (Nalbantoğlu, 2004;Seco et al, 2011;Al-Taie et al, 2020;Barman and Dash, 2022;Sahoo and Singh, 2022;Soltani et al, 2022).…”