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The Stability Evaluation of River Embankment for a Piping Phenomenon  

Lee, Song (서울시립대학교 토목공학과)
Park, Hyung-Kyu (서울시립대학교 토목공학과)
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Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection / v.7, no.3, 2003 , pp. 175-181 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this reseach, a seepage test is carried out for three kinds of soil using a upward seepage equipment. Reliability about the existing method of pipining investigation were verified making an estimate of the critical velocity, the critical hydraulic gradient, and hydraulic conductivity and so on. Also, sensitive analyses were carried out using Plaxis that is FEM Program about design factors of scour. The height of core had a big infulence on the hydraulic gradient of the embankment's lower part in the result of sensitive anaylsis. Also, second only to the height of core, and the slope of embankment, the width of crest had influence on scour. However, the change of hydraulic gradient in the effluent gateway had a little influence on the crest width of core. Using these results of sensitive analysis on designing, hydraulic gradient in the effluence gateway turned out to be reducing by altering design factors that change of sensitiveness is big, in case of the hydraulic gradient bigger than the standard hydraulic gradient.
Keywords
Embankment; Piping; Critical hydraulic gradient; Sensitivity analysis;
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