Preliminary study of soil-cement piling as a new alternative in levee and river bank strengthening

Malaysia has not yet experienced a totally severe levee failure as what have happened in other countries. however,flood has always been the major problem in malaysia caused by several factors including weather condition,man-made and also including levee or bund failure. therefore,in order to produce a new alternative to improve the structures of levees and river banks,this study on preliminary investigation of soil-cement piling is done to see the possibility of it to be used in the strengthening of levee or bund and river banks. the investigation focused on determining suitable soil-cement ratio to produce soil cement pile encased in pvc pipes in terms of axial capacity. the results show that the soil-cement mixture with 11% cement ratio produced the reasonable pile axial/compressive capacity. © 2015 penerbit utm press. all rights reserved.