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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2016.36.6.1161

A Case Study on Elephant Foot Method for Railway Tunneling in Large Fault Zone  

Lee, Gilyong (Sunjin Engineering)
Oh, Jeongho (Korea National University of Transportation)
Cho, Kyehwan (Korea Railroad Technical Corporation)
Lee, Doosoo (Korea Railroad Technical Corporation)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.36, no.6, 2016 , pp. 1161-1167 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, an attempt was made to conduct a case study on the development of ground expansive displacement due to lack of bearing capacity of original ground in spite of applying reinforcement treatments that intended to enhance the stability of big size high-speed rail tunnel in large fault zone. For the purpose of this, in-situ measurements made in the middle of excavation stage were analyzed in order to characterize ground responses and numerical analysis was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of reinforcement technique such as elephant foot method applied for this site via comparing with field monitoring measurements. In addition, further numerical studies were carried out to investigate the influence of leg pile installation angle and length, which is one of types of elephant foot method. The results revealed that the optimum condition for the leg pile installation is to maintain 45 degree of installation angle along with 6 meter of embedment depth.
Keywords
Elephant foot method; Large fault zone; Pile leg reinforcement;
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