Biocementation Potential of Tropical Residue Soil Infused with Facultative Anaerobe Bacteria

Abstract:

Biomediated soil improvement, a promising new branch of microbial geotechnology; which involved multi disciplines has successfully attracted abundant attentions among researchers, geotechnical engineers, and other industries practitioners. Few of the researches were conducted to examine the potential implementation of this technique on tropical residue soil. However, the uncertainties outcomes and inconsistency of bio mediated soil improvement, especially on the clayed soil have made this technique remained at the laboratory stage. Therefore, this paper intended to provide better understanding of this technique by investigating the relation between the bacteria, cementation reagents, and tropical residue soil. The residual soil was mixed with facultative anaerobe bacteria, Bacillus Subtilis before it was compacted into a prefabricated PVC mould. The soil samples were treated with different treatment condition such as (1) control or untreated, (2) treated with cementation solution, (3) treated with bacteria only, and (4) treated with bacteria and Cementation reagent. A worth noting finding showed that the sample treated with bacteria and nutrient only has produced the highest increment of shear strength. This phenomenon might have been caused by the effect of the chemical reagent to the mineralogy of residue soil. The presence of the chemical reagents is believed to have weakened the shear strength of the tropical residual soil.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 773-774)
• Pages: 1412-1416
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.773-774.1412
• Online since: July 2015
• Authors: Kenny Tiong Ping Chiet, Khairul Anuar Kassim*, Siaw Yah Chong
• Keywords: Bacillus Subtilis, Biomediated Soil Improvement, Facultative Anaerobe Bacteria, Group Improvement, Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP), Tropical Residue Soil

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