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Need to increase urban infrastructure and lack of access to suitable quality soil increased demand for new methods for soil improvement. Recently, improving the parameters of strength, stiffness and permeability of sand under microbial induced calcite precipitation has received much attention from geotechnical experts as innovative and environmentally friendly methods. Therefore, it is very important to study the parameters affecting the biological improvement technique and find the ideal combination to increase efficiency and reduce costs. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the variability of cementation solution molarity, bacterial optical density and curing time (three levels of variation for each) on the parameters of deviation and effective stresses for biologically improved sand under undrained triaxial compression test. The sand used in this study is a SP soil according to the unified soil …