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Finite Element Analysis for the Effects on the Stiffness of the Embankment and Sandmat on the Deformation Property and the Safety of Road Embankment  

Bae, Woo-Seok (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chongju University)
Kim, Jong-Woo (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chongju University)
Kwon, Young-Cheul (Department of Civil Engineering, Chungju National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.22, no.4, 2007 , pp. 57-65 More about this Journal
Abstract
Effects on the stiffness of the embankment and sandmat on the construction safety of road embankment was investigated in this study by the numerical experiments using FEM. Two points was mainly focused in this study especially. First the deformation characteristics by the change of the stiffness of sand mat and embankment was investigated by the analyzing the consolidation settlement at the center of the embankment and the lateral displacement at the toe of the embankment. And, the effect of the stiffness on the stress distribution characteristics was also investigated in this study. Furthermore, slope stability analysis was carried out to gain the safe factor by change the stiffness of the sandmat and the embankment. The objective of the study is supplying the result of the numerical experiments for the geotechnical engineers who use the FEM for the safety design of the soil structures. As a result, the stiffness of the superstructures greatly affects on the deformation characteristics both in consolidation settlement and lateral displacement. However, it can be aware that it is not dominants to the stress distribution in the aspect that the no changes in the residual excess pore water pressure. Therefore, the decision of the stiffness has to be carried out deliberately considering not only the consolidation the magnitude of the settlement and the lateral displacement, but the slope stability.
Keywords
road embankment; consolidation settlement; lateral displacement; slope stability;
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