• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.117-130
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• 2009

In this paper, a series of laboratory chamber tests were carried out to evaluate the applicability of a porous concrete pile fabricated with recycled aggregates (RAPP) for the soft ground improvement. While performing the laboratory chamber tests for the RAPP, the surface settlement, excess pore pressure and vertical stress distribution with time were compared with those of SCP provided by You (2003) under the same experimental condition. In addition, the experimental results were compared with the numerical simulation using ABAQUS in this study. The results show that the settlement reduction is significantly enhanced due to the stress-sharing mechanism between the RAPP and soil formation by stress concentration on the RAPP. Furthermore, the comparison of consolidation rate shows that the RAPP can accelerate consolidation as well, which behaves as a vertical drain.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.39-46
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 배수재가 설치된 구역과 설치되지 않은 구역으로 구성된 Olga-C 시험성토지반의 변형률속도 의존적인 압밀거동을 서술하였다. 배수재가 설치된 지반이 압밀거동에 대한 변형률속도의 영향을 해석하기 위하여 응력-변형률-변형률 속도의 관계식(v-$\varepsilon$v- v)을 이용한 축대칭 비선형 점소성 모델을 제안하였다. 제안된 모델은 실험실과 현장의 변형률속도 차이뿐만 아니라 간극수압의 소산과 생성의 복합적인 압밀과정을 고려할 수 있다. 연직 및 반경방향의 배수효과에 의해 배수재가 설치된 지반(Zone B)에서 유발되는 변형률 속도는 배수재가 설치되지 않은 연약지반 (Zone A)의 변형률 속도보다 크다. 유발된 변형률 속도의 영향으로 Zone B의 선행압밀하중도 Zone A에서 유발되는 선행압밀하중보다 크다. Olga-C 지역의 Zone A 에서는 응력완화효과가 유발되지만, Zone B에서는 응력완화효과가 유발 되지 않았다.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.45-51
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• 2003

This study was undertaken to investigate behavior characteristics of soil-cement piles in composite foundations through computer analysis. The soil-cement piles with cushion subjected to the vertical central loading only were analyzed using the program - “ABAQUS”. The investigation was conducted for various conditions including soil property, pile dimension, replacement ratio, pile/soil modular ratio, and load intensity. The results of analysis provided not only the load transfer and settlement behaviors but also the effective pile length and load distribution between a pile and soil. It was concluded that in the design of composite foundations, the modular ratio and replacement ratio are two design parameters.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2004.03b
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• pp.746-756
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• 2004

포화토의 거동은 흙과 유체사이의 상호작용에 의해 지배된다. 특히, 동화중 작용시 포화된 사질토에서는 이러한 상호작용에 의해 급격한 액상화 현상이 유발되며 이는 동역학직, 유체역학직으로 복합적인 거동을 나타네어 복합하므로 오직 수치해석적인 방법을 이용한 거동해석만이 가능하다. 본 연구는 사질토에서의 동적 거동해석을 위한 수치해석기법 개발에 그 목적을 두었다. 본 수치해석기법은 Hiremath (1987, 1996)의 "Dynamics for Saturated Soils" 이론에 Sandhu (1975a, 1975b, 1976)의 Variational 기법을 적용하여 개발되었으며 간극수압과 관련된 다양한 토질역학적 문제들에 적용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.127-137
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• 2018

Gravel Compaction Pile (hereinafter referred to as GCP) is a ground improvement technique by packing crushed stones on fragile clay ground, pressing it, and forming stakes on the foundation. Although many researchers have analyzed stress behavior of GCP composite ground on domestic GCP technique using laboratory experiment and field experiment, analyses of stress behavior according to the difference of stiffness of mat foundation loaded on the upper foundation of GCP composite ground have not been done actively. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the stress concentration ratio in accordance with the difference of basis stiffness by interpreting figures. To perform this, replacement ratio was changed and modelled using ABAQUS, software for finite element analysis and analyzed the stress concentration ratio, amounts of settlement, and maximum amounts of horizontal displacement of composite ground in accordance with the difference of stiffness. An analysis showed that the stress concentration ratio of rigid foundation was highly assessed than unloading of flexible foundation in case of unloading, while amounts of settlement under flexible unloading condition were slightly higher than under rigid condition. This indicates that the characteristic of stress behavior on the different stiffness of upper foundation needs to be clarified. In addition, the maximum horizontal displacement was generated in a constant level regardless of the difference of stiffness.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2000

Stone columns is ground improvement method which is composed of compacted gravel or crushed stone inserted into the soft ground consisting of loose sand and clay by replacement method. Generally stone columns are constructed in silty clay, above 70% replacement rate for increasing the bearing capacity and shear strength. Low replacement stone columns method is limited below 30% at replacement rate-premising strength increase of clay ground is estimated efficiently. This study, laboratory model tests were conducted to investigate the consolidation drainage promotion and shear strength increase effect in soft ground with replacement rate by stone columns. The settlement reduction effect and settlement reduction coefficients increase with increasing the replacement rate in composite ground. The results of model tests indicate that consolidation promotion effect is proved. The increasing strength of composite ground was verified by vane shear tests.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.45-50
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• 2005

Sand pile method, such as sand drain method and sand compaction pile method, has been popularly used as an improved method for soft clay grounds. The effect of accelerating consolidation of soft clay grounds has been evaluated with Barren's solution. The consolidation behavior of soft clay ground with sand piles strongly depends on both the nonlinear mechanical interaction between sand piles and surrounding clays and the degradation permeability of clays. In this paper a method of determining consolidation parameters of soft clay ground with sand drains by using Barren's solution was proposed through a series of numerical simulations. Through the method, the change in both volume compressibility and permeability during consolidation was reasonably evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.23-32
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• 2009

In this study, the reliable and simple analysis method was proposed to predict the settlement characteristic of composite ground in stage of design and construction of sand compaction pile (SCP). Model parameters could be obtained by the optimization process based on genetic algorithm. In order to examine the proposed method, laboratory consolidation tests on the settlement characteristic of SCP composite ground were performed for various replacement ratio of sand such as 0 (no replacement), 20, 36, and 56%. The proposed model showed very good agreements with measured data in the relation of void ratio-log scaled stress and time-compression far each replacement ratio.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.57-69
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• 2001

Sand pile is widely used as a ground improvement method. Although the primary purpose of constructing sand pile is accelerating consolidation, composite ground effect also can be gained by constructing sand pile. This study was accomplished to understand composite ground effect on the ground improved by sand piles which were applied as vertical drainage material when area replacement ratio was small relatively. For determining bearing capacities of origin ground and sand piles and analysing interaction between embankment and origin ground, bearing tests and earth pressure monitoring are performed. From the results, it turned out that the contribution of sand pile as a load bearing mechanism is not substantial. However, the bearing capacity of sand pile was increased to sixty percentages when compared with origin ground. The increasement of bearing capacity could be caused the change of consolidation characteristics during the process of consolidation by overburden load. Therefore, the composite ground effects depending on stiffness increasement of sand pile would be estimated as a factor decreasing consolidation settlement.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.63-74
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• 2017

Although the Granular Compaction Pile (GCP) has been used for many decades, several failures still occur such as bulging, shear failure and other phenomena, indicating that more refined study is needed. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the stress concentration ratio for both area replacement ratio and shear strength of soil through literature review and numerical analysis. Numerical analysis using the finite element program ABAQUS has been performed for the composite ground with GCP. The behavior stress and settlement of composite ground have been analyzed for both the area replacement ratio (10~40%) and shear strength of soil (25~75 kPa). As a result of numerical analysis, as the soil strength and area replacement ratio increased, the average stree related coefficient and stress concentration ratio for depth tended to decrease, and stress related coefficient of upper layer tend to decrease equally, but the stress concentration ratio decreased. Therefore, tendency that the value in th upper layer differs from the value in other depths was displayed. Care should be taken because it is possible to make mistakes in designing the entire composite ground with the values measured in the upper layer. Also, the settlement reduction factor was compared with the existing equation and numerical analysis. And the value obatined from the existing equation and numerical analysis are similar.