Expansive soils are highly susceptible to volumetric changes leading to rapid loss in the bearing
capacity of footings resting on them. Among several techniques available to treat expansive soils, lime or fly ash
stabilization gained prominence during the past few decades due to its abundance and adaptability. Chemical
stabilization is widely used to treat expansive soils as it develops base exchange and cementation processes between
clay particles.When expansive soils are treated with chemicals, it is essential to obtain the load-settlement response
of footing resting on stabilized ground. In this study, Finite Element Analysis is performed using the commercial
software, PLAXIS 2D, to obtain the load-settlement response of a strip footing resting on untreated and treated
expansive soil. The bearing capacity of strip footing resting on treated soil is found to be about 150% higher than
that of footing resting on untreated soil