The purpose of this research is to study the improvement of soil properties by the
addition of lime in certain percentages. The soil used in this study was obtained from the
Baseet region, which is located by the Syrian coast. We have studied the e
ffect of lime on
the consistency, the swell characteristics and the shear strength of soil.
The results of this study have shown a remarkable reduction of both liquid and
shrinkage limits, and the plasticity index with the increase of lime percentage. As for
plasticity limit, it increases in the beginning then decreases slightly with the rising of lime
percentage.
For the volumetric variation, the susceptibility of swelling and the shrinkage of
improved soil with lime decrease, and the free swelling and the swelling pressure become
almost negligible with 4% of lime.
Based on the shear strength results, we can indicate a notable increase in the friction
angle and cohesion of soil with increasing of lime percentage up to 8% of lime. After that,
these two factors decrease.
In order to evaluate the important role of climate on soil formation, three
different locations (Nawa, Dael and Nasib) in southern part of Syria,
representing the North West, Middle and Southern parts of Hauran Plateau
were selected and differ mai
nly in the amount of annual precipitation and
relatively with other factors. Three profiles, replicated three times, were
prepared one profile for each area.
