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A Study on the Bearing Capacity of the Sand Foundation Including the Dense Sand Layer (조밀한 층을 포함하는 사질 지반의 지지력에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Eun Young;Lee, Sang Duk;Kwon, Oh Yeoh;Hu, Chang Tack
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.237-242
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    • 1993
  • The bearing capacity of the sand foundation including a thin dense sand layer depends on the stiffiness, thickness and the location of the dense sand layer. In this paper was the influence of the dense sand layer on both the bearing capacity and the failure configuration is studied by means of K.E.M(Kinematic Element Method). K.E.M was implemented to get the excat solution starting from the upper bound of the analysis. The result show that the bearing capacity of the foundation and the failure configuration is greatly influenced by the dense sand layer, when the layer is located not deeper than 3/5 of the foundation width.

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A Study on the Influence Area of Excavation around Railroads (철로 주변의 지하굴착 영향권에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jong-Su;Jang, Jeong-Wook;Park, Choon-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2006.03a
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    • pp.1032-1037
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    • 2006
  • This thesis studied effects of the excavation around railroads on the deformation of the lateral ground and neighboring railroads. The conclusions of the study are as follows. 1. When the depth of excavationis 10m, the influential area should be 35m for soft clay, 20m for normal clay, 15m for hard clay, 15m for loose sand, 12m for slightly dense sand, and 8m for dense sand. 2. When the influential area is 10m, the allowable excavation depth should be 2.5m for soft clay, 4.8m for normal clay, 7.5m for hard clay, 7.2m for loose sand, 8.8m for slightly dense sand, and 10m for dense sand. 3. When the influential area is 20m, the allowable excavation depth should be 4.5m for soft clay, and up to 10m for the other five kinds of soil. 4. When the influential area is 30m, the allowable excavation depth should be 7.5m for soft clay, and up to 10m for the other five kinds of soil. 5. When the influential area is 35m, the allowable excavation depth should be up to 10m for all kinds of soil.

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Loose and Dense Aggregate Particle Packing Models in Cement and Concrete

  • Kim, Jong-Cheol;Lim, Chang-Sung;Auh, Keun-Ho
    • The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2000
  • Particle packing properties are important to develop high technology products in the field of cement and concrete. Two types of particle packing models for aggregates with sand and cement were introduced: the loose and the dense aggregate packing. Aggregate packing models with randomly generated sand and cement particles in the interstices of aggregates fit the Furnas model very well. Different aggregate models show different packing properties with the experimental results. Main reason for the difference with the experimental results is due to sand rearrangement in the loose aggregate packing model and to aggregate relaxation in the dense aggregate packing model. In the experimental situation, aggregates seem to be more disordered and have a relaxed packing structure in the dense packing, and sands seem to have a more rearranged packing structure in the loose packing model.

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Incremental filling ratio of pipe pile groups in sandy soil

  • Fattah, Mohammed Y.;Salim, Nahla M.;Al-Gharrawi, Asaad M.B.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.695-710
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    • 2018
  • Formation of a soil plug in an open-ended pile is a very important factor in determining the pile behavior both during driving and during static loading. The degree of soil plugging can be represented by the incremental filling ratio (IFR) which is defined as the change in the plug length to the change of the pile embedment length. The experimental tests carried out in this research contain 138 tests that are divided as follows: 36 tests for single pile, 36 tests for pile group ($2{\times}1$), 36 tests for pile group ($2{\times}2$) and 30 pile group ($2{\times}3$). All tubular piles were tested using the poorly graded sand from the city of Karbala in Iraq. The sand was prepared at three different densities using a raining technique. Different parameters are considered such as method of installation, relative density, removal of soil plug with respect to length of plug and pile length to diameter ratio. The soil plug is removed using a new device which is manufactured to remove the soil column inside open pipe piles group installed using driving and pressing device. The principle of soil plug removal depends on suction of sand inside the pile. It was concluded that the incremental filling ratio (IFR) is changed with the changing of soil state and method of installation. For driven pipe pile group, the average IFR for piles in loose is 18% and 19.5% for L/D=12 and 15, respectively, while the average of IFR for driven piles in dense sand is 30% and 20% for L/D=12 and L/D=15 respectively. For pressed method of pile installation, the average IFR for group is zero for loose and medium sand and about 5% for dense sand. The group capacity increases with the increase of IFR. For driven pile with length of 450 mm, the average IFR % is about 30.3% in dense sand, 14% in medium and 18.3% for loose sand while when the length of pile is 300 mm, the percentage equals to 20%, 17% and 19.5%, respectively.

Influence of Taper Angle on Axial Behavior of Tapered Piles in Sand (모래지반에서 테이퍼 각도가 테이퍼말뚝의 연직거동에 미치는 영향)

  • Paik, Kyu-Ho;Lee, Jun-Hwan;Kim, Dae-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2007
  • Axial behavior of tapered piles is affected by taper angle, stress state of soils, soil frictional angle and pile-soil interface friction angle. In this paper, a series of model pile load tests were performed using a calibration chamber in order to investigate the effect of taper angle on the axial response of cast-in-place tapered piles in sand. According to results of the tests, as taper angle of piles increased, the shaft load capacity of piles increased but its base load capacity decreased. The unit base load capacity of piles increased with increasing taper angle for medium sand but decreased for dense sand. The ratio of shaft to total load capacity increased with increasing taper angle and with decreasing relative density of soils. The test results also showed that total load capacity per unit pile volume increased with increasing taper angle for medium sand, but it decreased for dense sand. Therefore, it can be stated that tapered piles are economically more beneficial for medium sand than for dense sand.

Numerical investigation of responses of a piled raft to twin excavations: Role of sand density

  • Karira, Hemu;Kumar, Aneel;Ali, Tauha Hussain;Mangnejo, Dildar Ali;Yaun, Li
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.53-69
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    • 2022
  • In densely built areas, the development of underground transportation systems often involves twin excavations, which are sometimes unavoidably constructed adjacent to existing piled foundations. Because soil stiffness degrades with induced stress release and shear strain during excavation, it is vital to investigate the piled raft responses to subsequent excavation after the first tunnel in a twin-excavation system. The effects of deep excavations on existing piled foundations have been extensively investigated, but the influence of twin excavations on a piled raft is seldom reported in the literature. In this study, three-dimensional numerical analyses were carried out to investigate the influence of sand density on an existing piled raft (with a working load on top of the raft) due to twin excavations. A wide range of relative density (Dr) from loosest (30%), loose to medium (50% and 70%), and densest (90%) were selected to investigate the effects on settlement and load transfer mechanism of the piled raft during twin excavations. An advanced hypoplastic sand model (which can capture small-strain stiffness and stress-state dependent dilatancy of sand) was adopted. The model parameters are calibrated against centrifuge test results in sand reported in the literature. From the computed results, it is found that twin excavations in loose sand (Dr=30%) caused the most significant settlement. This is because of the higher stiffness of denser sand (Dr=90%) than that of loose sand. In contrast, a much larger tilting (maximum magnitude=0.18%) was computed in dense sand than in loose sand after the completion of the first excavation. As far as the load transfer mechanism along the piles is concerned, an upward load transfer to mobilize shaft resistance is observed in loose sand. On the contrary, a downward load transfer is observed in dense sand.

Importance of particle shape on stress-strain behaviour of crushed stone-sand mixtures

  • Kumara, Janaka J.;Hayano, Kimitoshi
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.455-470
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    • 2016
  • In ballasted railway tracks, ballast fouling due to finer material intrusion has been identified as a challenging issue in track maintenance works. In this research, deformation characteristics of crushed stone-sand mixtures, simulating fresh and fouled ballasts were studied from laboratory and a 3-D discrete element method (DEM) triaxial compression tests. The DEM simulation was performed using a recently developed DEM approach, named, Yet Another Dynamic Engine (YADE). First, void ratio characteristics of crushed stone-sand mixtures were studied. Then, triaxial compression tests were conducted on specimens with 80 and 50% of relative densities simulating dense and loose states respectively. Initial DEM simulations were conducted using sphere particles. As stress-strain behaviour of crushed stone-sand mixtures evaluated by sphere particles were different from laboratory specimens, in next DEM simulations, the particles were modeled by a clump particle. The clump shape was selected using shape indexes of the actual particles evaluated by an image analysis. It was observed that the packing behaviour of laboratory crushed stone-sand mixtures were matched well with the DEM simulation with clump particles. The results also showed that the strength properties of crushed stone deteriorate when they are mixed by 30% or more of sand, specially under dense state. The results also showed that clump particles give closer stress-strain behaviour to laboratory specimens than sphere particles.

Vane Shear Test on Nakdong River Sand (베인 전단시험기를 이용한 낙동강모래의 마찰각에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sung-Sik;Zhou, An;Kim, Dong-Rak
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.463-470
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    • 2016
  • A vane shear test (VST) is a simple testing method for determining an undrained shear strength of cohesive soils by minimizing soil disturbance. In this study, the VST was used to determine a shear strength of sand. Dry Nakdong River sand was prepared for loose and dense conditions in a cell and then pressurized with 25, 50, 75 or 100 kPa from the surface of sand. A vane (5 cm in diameter and 10 cm in height) was rotated and a torque was measured within sand. When a torque moment by vane and friction resistance moment by sand is assumed to be equalized, a friction angle can be obtained. When a vane rotates within clay, a uniform undrained shear strength is assumed to be acting on cylindrical failure surface. On the other hand, when it is applied for sand, the failure shape can be assumed to be an octagonal or square column. The relationship between measured torque and resistant force along assumed failure shapes due to friction of sand was derived and the internal friction angle of sand was determined for loose and dense conditions. For the same soil condition, a series of direct shear test was carried out and compared with VST result. The friction angle from VST was between 24-42 degrees for loose sand and 33-53 degrees for dense sand. This is similar to those of direct shear tests.

Effects of loading frequency and specimen size on the liquefaction resistance of clean sand

  • Sung-Sik Park;Dong-Eun Lee;Dong-Kiem-Lam Tran
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.123-133
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    • 2024
  • This study investigates the effects of loading frequency (f) and specimen size on the liquefaction resistance of clean sand. A series of cyclic direct simple shear tests were conducted on Jumunjin sand with varying consolidated relative densities (40% and 80%), f values (0.05, 0.10, and 0.20 Hz), and diameter to height (D/H) ratios (3.63, 3.18, 2.82, and 2.54). The results demonstrated the significant influence of f and D/H ratio on the number of cycles to liquefaction (Ncyc-liq) and the cyclic resistance ratio (CRR15). It was observed that increasing f linearly increased Ncyc-liq. Increasing the specimen height also led to higher Ncyc-liq values irrespective of the f or relative density. Moreover, a positive correlation between CRR15 and f indicated that higher f yielded higher CRR15. This relationship was more pronounced in dense sand than in loose sand. Specimen height also significantly affected CRR15, with increasing the specimen height resulting in higher CRR15 values. Furthermore, the effect of f on CRR15 was less significant compared to the influence of specimen height. The effect of f on the normalized cyclic resistance ratio (NCRR) was relatively negligible for loose sand but more substantial for dense sand depending on the D/H ratio. Data analysis revealed that the NCRR generally decreases as the D/H ratio increases. An interpolation formula was provided to calculate the NCRR based on the D/H ratio regardless of the f and relative density.

Measurement of Friction Angle of Sand from Horizontal Stress and Torque Acting on Vane (베인에 작용하는 수평응력과 토크를 이용한 모래의 마찰각 측정)

  • Park, Sung-Sik;Kim, Dong-Rak;Lee, Sae-Byeok
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2018
  • In this study, the torque and horizontal stress acting on vane were measured and then used to determine a friction angle of sand. A dry Nakdong River sand was prepared for loose and dense conditions in a cell and then pressurized with 25, 50, 75 or 100 kPa from the surface of sand. A vane (5cm in diameter and 10cm in height) was rotated and the torque and horizontal stress were measured at real time. A maximum torque was 3.5-9.5Nm for loose sand and 7.4-17.6Nm for dense sand, respectively. The maximum torque increased as an overburden pressure increased. The maximum torque obtained at 14-20 degrees of vane rotation, which was not influenced by the initial alignment of earth pressure and vane blade. An initial horizontal stress ratio was 0.33-0.35 on the average. The horizontal stress increased initially and then decreased due to particle disturbance. A friction angle was calculated from real time varying horizontal stress and torque, which decreased with increasing overburden pressure. The friction angle of loose sand from vane shear test was similar to that of direct shear test but that of dense sand was overestimated.