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A Study on the Long-term Settlement Characteristics of Thick Clay Deposits Using Field Monitoring

대심도 연약지반의 현장계측을 이용한 장기침하거동특성 분석에 관한 연구

  • Kwon, Hyun-Wook (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Im, Jong-Chul (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Chang, Ji-Gun (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Kang, Sang-Kyun (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National Univ.)
  • Received : 2018.10.04
  • Accepted : 2018.10.31
  • Published : 2018.12.30
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Abstract

Despite a number of studies on consolidation behavior that have been carried out in the Nakdong River estuary in Busan, these are focused on the prediction of final settlement during ground improvement process, and there is almost no research on the long-term settlement occurring after that. For the practical study on the long-term settlement, the field monitored settlement data that measured over 10 years in the Busan new port facilities area were used, and the final settlement and predicted time-settlement line were constituted by hyperbolic function. As a result, the measured settlements depend on the thickness of clayey soils, and the pattern were similar to each other and good agreement with the predicted time-settlement line using hyperbolic method. Also, the settlement in the lower non-improved layer occupied 62-76% of total settlement. Information about above results would be quite helpful to understand the long-term settlement behaviors as well as the non-improved layer's settlement is more careful consideration needed at design phase.

대심도 연약지반을 개량하여 상부에 개설되는 도로 등 각종 시설물의 안전을 확보하기 위해서는 공용개시 후 잔류 침하량에 대한 명확한 이해를 바탕으로 한 합리적인 설계관리기준의 설정과 예측 값 산정이 매우 중요하다. 그러나 지난 수십 년 동안 낙동강 하구 일원 등 대심도 연약지반상의 지반개량을 통해 조성된 부지에서는 설계단계에서 예측한 잔류 침하량을 크게 상회하는 침하가 발생하여 많은 시설물의 파손과 아울러 사회적인 논란을 야기되고 있음에도 이에 대한 연구는 거의 전무한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 공용하중 개시 이후 장기간에 걸쳐 발생하는 잔류 침하에 대한 기초적이며 실무적인 연구를 위해, 대심도 연약지반개량을 통해 조성된 부지에서 약 10년에 걸쳐 측정한 침하계측결과를 이용하여 장기 침하거동 양상을 분석하였다. 그 결과 계측된 잔류침하량은 점성토층의 두께의 차이로 지점별로 차이가 있으나 침하양상은 모든 계측결과가 유사하였으며, 쌍곡선 함수식을 이용한 장래 잔류침하 예측결과와는 매우 좋은 일치를 보였다. 또한, 하부 미개량층에서 발생한 침하량이 전체침하량의 대부분(62-76%)을 차지하는 것으로 확인되어 개량층을 대상으로 허용침하량을 규정하고 있는 국내의 현실에 좀 더 신중한 고민이 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

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Fig. 1. Predicted long-term settlement at design phase (Data obtained from Pusan Newport Company, 1999)

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Fig. 2. Soil profile and geotechnical properties (Chung et al., 2009)

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Fig. 3. Location of field monitoring and traffic survey

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Fig. 4. Monitored settlement versus t plots

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Fig. 5. Long-term settlement versus t plots from hyperbolic function

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Fig. 6. t/s vs. t plots

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Fig. 7. Effect of traffic induced load on long-term settlement

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Fig. 8. U versus time plots from hyperbolic function

Table 1. Coefficients and final settlement obtained from hyperbolic method

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