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http://dx.doi.org/10.21729/ksds.2018.11.2.29

Experimental Investigation of Combined Sinusoidal Loads to Simulate Soil Liquefaction Triggering under Real Earthquake Loads  

Choi, Jae Soon (Dept. of Civil & Arch. Eng. Seokyeong Univ.)
Baek, Woo Hyun (Dept. of Civil & Arch. Eng. Seokyeong Univ.)
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Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security / v.11, no.2, 2018 , pp. 29-35 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is an experimental comparison on the fact that the sinusoidal load, which has been used so far in the laboratory cyclic test, which is an important part of the liquefaction triggering study, is somewhat different from the phenomenon that causes the soil liquefaction during the earthquake loading. To this end, this study proposes a new type of combined sinusoidal load and compares it with experimental results to load the conventional sine wave. In the comparison, the shaking table tests were carried out and the sample in the tests was remolded with the relative density of 40%, which is a condition where liquefaction is easy to occur. Firstly, the conventional cyclic test was carried out under the condition that with the amplitude of sine wave was 0.3 g. Additionally, 3 types of tests were performed using the combination loads made up with 0.03 g sinusoidal load and 0.3g sinusoidal load. At that time, the loading time for the first sinusoidal load were changed with 5 seconds, 10 seconds, and 15 seconds. As a result, the test with the conventional sine wave and the test with the first sinusoidal loading for 5 seconds showed that the change of the pore water pressure gradually increased. But in the tests with the combined sinusoidal load which changed the first sinusoidal loading time with 10 and 15 seconds, it was found that the pore water pressure suddenly rose at a certain instant and liquefaction occurs. From the experimental comparison, it is judged that it is appropriate that the time of the first sine wave is over 10 seconds at the proposed combined load for the soil condition with relative density 40%.
Keywords
Conventional cyclic test; Liquefaction triggering; Shaking-table test; Combined sinusoidal load;
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