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Research on the Load Reduction Effect Using EPS  

김진만 (한국선설기술연구원 지반연구부)
조삼덕 (한국선설기술연구원 지반연구부)
최봉혁 (한국선설기술연구원 지반연구부)
오세용 (한국선설기술연구원 지반연구부)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.20, no.1, 2004 , pp. 101-108 More about this Journal
Abstract
For the last 30 years, the use of EPS as a lightweight filling material has grown significantly throughout the world. The fields of applying EPS block have also increased. The most representative example in geotechnical applications is using EPS block as a compressible inclusion that causes the reduction of static earth pressure on earth-retaining wall, bridge abutment and pipes. EPS blocks have a good workability by its lightweight characteristic and a uniform engineering property with the change of its density. Also EPS blocks have best material property as a compressible inclusion. This paper analyzes that the compressible inclusion function of EPS causes the reduction of static earth pressure on retaining wall and concrete box culvert. A series of in-situ tests were conducted to evaluate the reduction of static earth pressure using EPS inclusion. Based on in-situ test, it is found that the magnitude of static earth pressure was reduced to about 20% for the retaining wall and about 45∼53% for the box culvert compared with theoretical active earth pressure.
Keywords
Arching Effect; Box Culvert; Compressible Inclusion; EPS; Reduction of Earth Pressure; Retaining Wall;
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