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http://dx.doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2007.23.4.47

Long-term Behavior of Earth Pressure on Integral Abutments  

Nam, Moon-S. (Highway & Transportation Technology Institute, Korea Expressway Corporation)
Park, Young-Ho (Highway & Transportation Technology Institute, Korea Expressway Corporation)
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Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society / v.23, no.4, 2007 , pp. 47-58 More about this Journal
Abstract
The usage of Integral abutment bridges has been increased worldwide because of reducing bridge maintenance costs and resisting seismic loads. Although these attributes make the integral abutment bridge an increasingly popular choice, back-abutment interaction issues remain unresolved. Hence, the earth pressure behavior of an integral abutment bridge having 90 m long PSC beam bridge for the first time in Korea was analyzed by conducting long term monitoring in this study. Based on this study, the results were as follows; the ratio of maximum passive movement to the abutment height (H) of 0.0027 and the maximum passive earth pressure coefficient of 4.8 were developed at 0.82H from the bottom of the abutment during summer season. During winter season, the ratio of maximum active movement to H of 0.0011 and the maximum active earth pressure coefficient of 0.7 were developed at the same location as in summer season. The new earth pressure distributions having a trapezoid type were proposed based on this study.
Keywords
Active earth pressure; Integral abutment; Long term monitoring; Passive earth pressure;
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