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http://dx.doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2006.22.6.5

Drained and Undrained Pullout Capacity in Steel Strip Reinforced Silty Sands  

Lee Hong-Sung (Hyundai Institute of Construction Technology)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.22, no.6, 2006 , pp. 5-13 More about this Journal
Abstract
Effective stresses may decrease due to generation of excessive pore pressure at the interface between soil and reinforcement in undrained condition such as rapid drawdownof groundwater level, resulting in the decrease in pullout capacity of the reinforcement. In this research, a series of laboratory pullout tests have been performed on different materials (clean sand, 5, 10, 15 and 35% silty sand), different overburden pressures (30, 100 and 200 kPa), and different drainage conditions (drained and undrained) in order to compare drained pullout capacity with undrained pullout capacity. The test results show that both drained and undrained pullout capacity are influenced by silt contents and increase with the increase of friction angle of the soil. The pullout capacity and the pullout displacement required to reach the peak value also increase as the overburden pressure increases. In undrained condition, the effective stresses acting on the reinforcement decrease as excessive pore pressures are generated, resulting in the decrease in pullout capacity and pullout displacement.
Keywords
Drained; Pullout capacity; Pullout test; Reinforced soil; Undrained;
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