DATABASE OF SOIL PROPERTIES ALONG IPOH-LUMUT HIGHWAY

The project aims is to create database system namely "Database of Soil Properties
along Ipoh-Lumut Highway". Based on the interviews conducted with JKR Perak and
MRCB, database in Malaysia is still new and not applicable in their storing data
system. The database is designed to manage large bodies of information. The database
of soil properties are needed to help many researchers, engineers and contractors to
evaluate the soil condition for road maintenance, ground improvement and
neighborhoods development. They could generate this data manually, but it is a long
job due to many procedures needs to be followed before they can access the data. The
main objective of this project is to organize, store, and retrieve information from Soil
Investigation data as efficiently and effectively. The scope of study is along Ipoh
Lumut Highway. This project involves the soil profiling about 34 600 m long. The
highway consists of 5 major chainages which are Sitiawan, Ayer Tawar, Bota Kanan,
Sri Iskandar, Tronoh and Pusing. The most predominant soil between the chainage
300 m until chainage 34 944 m is silty clay with average thickness of 6 m. The
engineer needs to be aware with the problem that may occur in the soft clay. The
softwares used in this project are Map Info Professional, Microsoft Excel and
Microsoft Visual Basic. The methods used to gather the information are by conducting
an interview, information gathering from the journals, developing the database and
generate the soil profile. In conclusions, the database applications will give benefits to
all individual and related organization to do their findings or research regarding soil
properties and engineering characteristics in Malaysia and the applications of database
will be more effective in presenting better information.