ABSTRACT
Lime addition is a very wide spread technique to improve the engineering behaviour of fine soils since it could increase their workability as well as their mechanical behaviour after compaction. In addition to these well known effects, lime also alters several engineering properties like soil hydraulic properties. Hydraulic conductivity is a key issue in hydraulic infrastructures (earthdam, river levees, etc.) However there is no general agreement in the literature about the effects of lime on the hydraulic conductivity of soils.
