BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV4I10041,
     title={Influence of Zycosil in Cold Mix Design of SDBC},
     author={Sanjay Dwivedi and Prof. Rajesh Jain},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={4},
     number={10},
     pages={99--106},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV4I10041.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

In India major part of roads are flexible in nature which deteriorates rapidly during their design life owing to high traffic intensity, overloading of commercial vehicle, and improper drainage system etc. resulting in early initiation of distress condition. These governing factors emphasizes on the necessity of roads with better stability and engineering design. In a country like India with its adverse climatic condition roads made of conventional bitumen fail to impart the required stability hence modification of bitumen as binder is the need of the hour. Certain admixtures can be used to partially replace the conventional bitumen to improve desired mechanical characteristics for particular road mix in semi dense bituminous concrete layer. Zycosil a nanomaterial recently used as an additive to strengthen the pavement. In this study, we are looking forward to use zycosil as additives in SDBC mix along with cement as filler. Various cold mix samples were prepared at different percentages of binder content (7%, 8%, 9% and 10%).These samples were tested for Marshall Values. These Marshall values were used to compute the optimum bitumen content of the mix. The optimum bitumen content was found to be 8.66% for SDBC mix. Zycosil additive was added at varying percentage (0.02%, 0.03% and 0.04%) to this optimum bitumen content. Upon addition of zycosil to the optimum bitumen content, the Marshall stability values of the mix increases significantly. Hence it is suggested to use it in the flexible pavement construction.

Additives, Marshal Stability, SDBC Design, Zycosil, Cold Mix