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http://dx.doi.org/10.12814/jkgss.2022.21.1.001

A Study on the Application of UBC3D-PLM for Soil Liquefaction Analysis  

Park, Eon-Sang (Construction System Engineering, Soongsil Cyber University)
Kim, Byung-Il (Expert Group for Earth & Environment)
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Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society / v.21, no.1, 2022 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, a model parameter evaluation method using relative density was proposed to utilize applicable UBC3D-PLM for liquefaction behavior. In addition, dynamic effective stress analysis, that is, liquefaction analysis, was performed on the case of the liquefaction occurrence region where acceleration and pore water pressure were measured, and compared with the actual measurement and the existing Finn analysis results. Through this study, it was found that the proposed method can easily evaluate the necessary parameters required by the related model and predict the pore water pressure behavior in the region where liquefaction occurs. In addition, in the case of the study area, both measurements and numerical analysis showed that liquefaction occurred when a certain amount of time elapsed after the earthquake acceleration reached the maximum value. In the case of UBC3D-PLM applied in this study, the excess pore water pressure behavior similar to the actual measurement was predicted, and the occurrence of liquefaction was evaluated in the same way as the actual measurement. In particular, although the excess pore water pressure in the sand layer was greater, the phenomenon in which liquefaction occurred in the silt layer was accurately realized. It is expected that the proposed model parameter evaluation method and finite element analysis applying UBC3D-PLM can be used to select the liquefaction reinforcement region in the future seismic design and reinforcement by evaluating the liquefaction occurrence region similarly to the real one.
Keywords
Liquefaction; UBC3D-PLM; Model parameter evaluation method; Dynamic effective stress analysis; Seismic design;
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