Highways are the most common public work facilities for transportation. Early provision of a large network of cheap yet efficient roads is of vital importance to the rapid development of the country. Further, the demand for a greater mileage of roads with fast developing economy of India and with restricted amount of finances makes it obligatory utilizing the local materials for Highway construction. The conventional methods and materials of road construction, maintenance and operation consume enormous resources. There are many number of routes on which less traffic justifies only low-cost type pavements. For important routes where there is enormous increase of traffic, the importance of adequate base course and sub base has substantially increased and they should possess more strength than previously required. Soil stabilization provides an answer to the problem as various waste materials can be successfully used for stabilization. This study has been conducted to investigate the effects of replacement of Natural Coarse aggregate (NCA) by Recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) and use of pond ash (PA) and cement as stabilizing agents on the strength characteristics of sub-base/base course. For pond ash, the disposal is quite a costly affair for the coal burning utility plants, can be very conveniently used for the economical construction of low cost roads having treated surfaces and for the stabilization of base/sub-base underneath the high type flexible or rigid pavements Keywords: Concrete, Highway, Pond ash, Pavements
I. INTRODUCTION A. GeneralThe emphasis was given to increase the sustainability of environment and better ways have been explored to manage wastes materials such as coal ash, plastic, rubber, construction and demolition waste, broken glass, scrap tyres, steel furnace slag etc. which are creating a number of problems in handling and disposing. These waste materials are disposed off either in low lying areas or in land fill sites which result in filling of land fill site at a very fast rate. So, reducing, reusing and recycling are the need of hour to save the natural resources as well as to save the land fill site which are otherwise going to create space problems for disposal of waste material. It is estimated that 10-12 million tons of construction and demolition waste (CDW) is generated in India every year which needs a huge space for disposal. It is also surveyed that there is a huge deficit of about 750 million cubic meter aggregates to achieve the targets of road sector in India (www.urbanindia.nic.in). So, CDW can prove to be very useful to meet the demand and supply gap of road sector. The bricks, metal and wood items are reused in new construction but the concrete and masonry waste which forms more than 50% of CDW are still not recycled in India. Therefore, there is need to recycle these concrete waste which are creating disposal problem in construction industry. These recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) which are cheaply available from construction and demolition sites can be used i...