Mother Nature knows the best. She creates the most durable assets. We learn from her. ‘ANT’ Stone Roads mimic natural stone with suitable tweaks for catering to traffic loads. The ‘ANT’ technology creates monolithic stone slab from a wide variety of materials, such as: stone crushing waste, weak stone materials.
National Highways
State Highways
Major District Roads
Rural Roads
Shipyards/ Harbor Roads
Industrial Area Roads
Warehouse Floors
‘ANT’ Stone Slab has high strength and deformation resistance. It has excellent performance under high traffic loads, adverse conditions such as high-water table, repeated freeze-thaw cycles, aggressive soil weather characteristics. This enables use of ‘ANT’ Stone Roads over a very wide geographic spread ranging from snow/frost covered Siberia in the north to simmering hot Indian Sub-Continent in the south. This technology opens up door to many new technical possibilities and solves many ecological bottlenecks/issues. It is estimated that the cost of road construction generally gets reduced by more than 30% as compared to the conventional technologies.
‘ANT’ soil stabilizer is a complex organic product. It enters into redox reactions with molecular oxygen on surfaces of aggregate and soil particles. New crystalline bonds established between the particles due to redox reactions lead to the formation of a monolithic stone-like structure that mimics sedimentary rocks created by Mother Nature through the natural processes.
Rules for Using Stabilizer
The ‘ANT’ Stabilizer is a liquid product. It is dissolved into the water to be used for mixing aggregates, cement and soil. The step-by-step methodology for using ‘ANT’ Stabilizer is given below: –
Quantity of aggregate and soil mix (Qa) to be stabilized is calculated
Quantity of water (Qw) needed to bring the aggregate, cement, soil and water mix to Optimum Moisture Content (OMC) is calculated. Proper care is taken to account for existing moisture contents of the aggregate and soil
Qw = Qa x OMC%
(OMC% factor normally varies from 5% to 12%)
Quantity of ‘ANT’ Stabilizer (Qs) is calculated using the formula
Qs = Qax 0.007%
(the multiplying factor may vary from 0.0035% to 0.01%)
Quantity of cement (Qc) is calculated using the formula
Qc = Qa x C%
(C% factor normally varies from 2% to 5%)
The calculated quantity of ‘ANT’ Stabilizer, Qs, is dissolved in the calculated quantity of water Qw. This aqueous solution of ‘ANT’ Stabilizer, as well as Qc quantity of cement, are than mixed with Qa quantity of aggregates and soil to produce the mix at OMC
The mix at OMC is then compacted to the design density.
Uniqueness of Stone Roads
Environmental Safety
The ANT stabilizer is completely safe for humans and nature. In addition, the use of technology allows the use of various types of waste, which solves a number of environmental problems.
High Strength
The Stone Road is not only highly durable, but also resistant to deformation, loss of fines and freeze-thaw cycles. The great durability of the created material makes it possible to operate roads in absolutely all climatic zones.
Cost Reduction
Due to use of locally available low cost materials, lesser thickness of pavement layers, high strength, as well as reduction of construction time, the cost of construction gets reduced by more than 30%.
Versatility
It enables use of wide range of locally available mineral/ soil materials such as quarry waste, low-strength stone aggregates and various types of soils. Also, it enables use various types of equipment and construction methods.
Minimal Maintenance
Stone Road is free from shrinkage-cracks. In fact the cement does not undergo reactions that generate the shrinkage cracks due to heat-of-hydration produced in the process. This ensures that Stone Roads need minimal maintenance after construction.
Non-Stop Execution
Traffic can be allowed almost immediately after the completion of compaction of freshly laid Stone Road. Light traffic can be allowed 2 to 4 hours after compaction and heavy traffic can be allowed after around 8 hours .
Construction Methods
Recycler
In-situ mixing and spreading of the mix can be done using Recyclers. Dosing of ‘ANT’ Stabilizer into water and mixing of aqueous ‘ANT’ solution with the aggregates and soil particles is done in a single stage at site. On-board computer in the Recycler controls the processes including quantities of ‘ANT’ Stabilizer, water etc. to be released in the process.
Mixing Plants
Mixing Plants can be set up to produce the mix centrally and transport it to the site/s nearby. Normal concrete mixing plants can be put to use for this purpose. Mix can be transported in dumpers and spread on the site using pavers – asphalt pavers can be used. Then graders can be deployed for achieving desired profile. It is reiterated that pavers should be used to achieve the best results with respect to evenness and overall quality of Stone Roads.
Agricultural Cutters
Agricultural Cutters (budget option) can be put to use in producing mix for rural roads. It may not be possible to deploy expensive mechanisms for such roads. This solution will be suitable for such cases. However, this method does not facilitate a consistent composition of the mix across different mixing operation cycles.
Front Loaders
If automated mixing is not possible due to the nonavailability of Mixing Plants or Recyclers, Front Loader can be used to produce the mix. A Front Loader with 3 m3 bucket capacity can produce up to 100 tons of mix in one hour. However, this is a very difficult method to produce a proper mix.
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