Soil cement

[Andrew Alcorn]

At 18:50 28/04/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Soil cement is a mixture of soil (low in organic)
>and Portland Cement--10% or greater.

If its less than 10% is it still soil cement?
I've always thought soil cement was any soil with cement as a stabiliser -
at whatever ratio. Frequently it *will* be used at less than 10% - say 7%.
You have to do tests with *your* soil to find out the optimum ratio.


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