Gaziantep Karataş bölgesindeki residual killerinin şişme davranışlarının incelenmesi

In civil engineering, using all kinds of natural materials in constructions, such as industrial buildings, railways, roads etc. is an important and economical issue. From this point of view, one of the main problems is the uses of clayey materials, which are known as being very sensitive to water content variations. It has been shown that such materials e.g. clay can be the source of short-term and long-term disorders in road or railway structure, thus generating non negligible maintenance costs. The swelling of clays in constructions, mentioned above, is one of the phenomena related to these disorders. Soil swelling deformations are mainly depended on the following parameters. The nature of soils (clay fractions, mineralogy etc), dry density, water content, and amount of water intake.This proposed study focuses on effect of a aforementioned parameters on swelling behavior of Gaziantep residual soils in Karatas region. For this study two samples were taken. These regions are Karatas and Gaziantep University Campus. Campus sample was taken to compare the results with Karatas samples. Free swell and swell pressure of soil will be determined in the laboratory using standard test procedures.