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Evaluation of Ultimate Bearing Capacity on Granular Compaction Pile Considering Various Stresses in a Ground  

Kang, Yun (Dept. of Civil Engrg., Hongik Univ.)
Yun, Ji-Yeon (Dept. of Civil Engrg., Hongik Univ)
Chang, Weon-Ho (Dept. of Highway, Seoyeong Eng. Col, Ltd)
Kim, Hong-Taek (Dept. of Civil Engrg., Hongik Univ.)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.20, no.2, 2004 , pp. 115-124 More about this Journal
Abstract
Granular compaction pile has the load bearing capacity of the soft ground increase and has the settlement of foundation built on the reinforced soil reduce. The granular compaction group piles also have the consolidation of the soft ground accelerate and prevent the liquefaction caused by earthquake using the granular materials such as sand, gravel, stone etc. However, this method is not widely used in Korea. The granular compaction piles are constructed by grouping them with a raft system. The confining pressure at the center of bulging failure depth is a major variable in estimating the ultimate bearing capacity of the granular compaction piles. Therefore, a share of loading is determined considering the effect of load concentration ratio between the granular compaction piles and surrounding soils, and the variation of the magnitude of the confining pressure. In this study, a method for the determination of the ultimate bearing capacity is proposed to apply a change of the horizontal pressure considering bulging failure depth, surcharge, and loaded area. Also, the ultimate bearing capacity of the granular compaction pile is evaluated on the basis of previous study(Kim et al., 1998) on the estimation of the ultimate bearing capacity and compared with the results obtained from laboratory scale model tests and DEM numerical analysis using the PFC-2D program.
Keywords
Boussinesq equation; Confining pressure; Granular compaction pile; Load concentration ratio; Ultimate bearing capacity;
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