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Numerical Investigation on Piled Raft Foundation on Sandy Soils  

Ahn, Tae-Bong (Department of Civil & Railroad Engineering, Woosong University)
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Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society / v.13, no.6, 2012 , pp. 67-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
Finite element method was used to compare un-piled and piled raft foundation behaviors on sandy soils in this study. The soil parameters were estimated from SPT tests of 25 boreholes. Based on these soil parameters, a finite element analysis was conducted on un-piled and piled raft foundations. For the un-piled raft, the normalized settlement parameter for raft sizes of $8m{\times}8m$ and $15m{\times}15m$ ranged from 1.02~1.15 and 0.64~0.81, respectively. The raft thickness affects differential settlement and bending moments, but has little effect on load sharing or maximum settlement. Pile spacing greatly affected the maximum settlement, the differential settlement, the bending moment in the raft, and the load shared by the piles, while the differential settlement, the maximum bending moment and the load sharing are not affected very much by increasing the pile lengths.
Keywords
Sand; Settlement; Piled Raft; Pile Spacing;
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