Improving Saline Soils with a Fiberglass Reinforcing Layer

Abstract

This article examines the problems of saline soils, which lead to a decrease in their stability due to wetting and drying, using the addition of fiberglass. When fiberglass was added to soils in both dry and wet conditions, soil settlement and dynamic parameters significantly increased with increasing fiber content. Furthermore, settlement, velocity, and soil displacement decreased with the addition of fiberglass, while acceleration increased. The stability parameters of soil treated with fiberglass at any percentage significantly improve with increasing fiberglass content. The practical benefit of these results in engineering applications lies in their ability to construct buildings on challenging soils.