Artificial rock material from reinforced soils as a replacement for brought-in macadam and pavement panels

Abstract

Rocky formations are mostly used during construction of groundwork base and topping of automobile roads pavements. Rock materials are used both for formation of the mineral carcass in asphalt and cement concrete and for creation of pavement layers without processing with inorganic and organic binders. One of deterrents of arrangement of hydrocarbon sources in Siberia is absence of local constructional materials, especially rocks. Transportation of macadam for over 2000 km not only determines high price of such construction but is characterized with low reliability and durability. An option to replace rock materials is soil reinforced with inorganic binders. Necessity to use artificial rock materials that are based on reinforced soil is now explained by increasing volume of field roads, automobile roads and pads construction, especially in Western and Eastern Siberia. This paperwork covers the ways of acceleration and cost-cutting of the field arrangements basing on the use of new methods, developed within the last 30 years, to produce artificial rock materials basing on reinforcement of local soils and optimization of such rock materials.