ABSTRACT
In recent years, in terms of economic development, concerns about peat and its difficulties from the geotechnical standpoint have led to the development of many new techniques for improving it. Peat is soil with a high compressibility and low shear strength. This implies that the engineers have to build structures, like roads and highways, railways, ports and airports, land reclamations, storage tanks, chemical plants, bridges, tunnels and residential buildings in less favourable areas (Mys´liñska, 2003). A variety of methods (which have been explained in Chapter 6) are widely used for stabilizing soft soils. Various new ground improvement techniques have been suggested, and recently there have been new advances in organic soils and peat stabilization, such as electrokinetics, new deep mixing method, biocementing and reinforced stone columns.
