• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2003

현행 무리말뚝 설계에서는 하나의 무리효율을 이용하여 개별말뚝의 지지력으로부터 전체 무리말뚝의 지지력을 산정하고 있다. 그러나, 무리말뚝의 지지 거동은 말뚝 시공 방법, 말뚝지반말뚝 상호작용, 캡-지반말뚝 상호작용 등의 복합적인 영향을 받으며, 따라서 하나의 무리효율만으로 이렇게 다양한 영향 요소들을 합리적으로 고려하는 것은 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 효율을 도입하여, 이들 영향 요소들을 분리하여 고려할 수 있는 무리말뚝 설계 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 이 외에도 말뚝의 하중 전이 특성과 위치에 따른 말뚝 거동의 차이를 고려할 수 있으며, 침하 기준을 이용한 효율의 산정을 통해 침하 관점의 설계가 이루어질 수 있다. 기존의 모형실험 결과로부터 제안된 설계 방법에 적용할 수 있는 효율을 산정하여 제시하였으며, 이를 이용하여 또 다른 모형 실험의 지지력을 산정하고 시험결과와 비교함으로써 제안된 방법의 유효성을 평가하였다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.53-63
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• 2013

PHC파일을 사용한 매입말뚝은 시공 중에 발생하는 소음과 진동을 최소화할 수 있다는 장점 때문에 많은 경우 도심지에 건설되는 건축구조물의 기초로 사용된다. 그러나 매입말뚝의 시공을 위해 굴착공을 천공하는 과정에서 굴착공 저면에 슬라임이 형성되고 그 하부의 지반은 응력이완으로 인해 조밀도가 느슨해져서 매입말뚝은 원지반의 강도에 비해 선단지지력이 작게 발휘된다는 단점을 갖고 있다. 본 연구에서는 매입말뚝의 선단지지력을 증대시키기 위해 PHC파일의 선단에 길이가 짧고 PHC파일과 직경이 동일한 강관을 부착한 새로운 형태의 PHC파일을 개발하였다. 새로운 PHC파일을 사용한 매입말뚝의 선단지지력 증대 효과를 검증하기 위해 현장 말뚝재하시험을 수행한 결과 새로운 PHC파일은 경타에 의해 파일 선단이 굴착공 저면의 슬라임과 그 하부의 이완된 지지층 영역을 관통해서 강도가 큰 원지반에 관입됨으로써 기존 PHC파일보다 매입말뚝의 선단지지력을 상당히 증대시키는 것으로 나타났다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.333-343
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• 2020

Preventing or reducing the damage impact of lateral soil movements on piled foundations is highly dependent on understanding the behavior of passive piles. For this reason, a detailed experimental study is carried out, aimed to examine the influence of soil density, the depth of moving layer and pile spacing on the behavior of a 2×2 free-standing pile group subjected to a uniform profile of lateral soil movement. Results from 8 model tests comprise bending moment, shear force, soil reaction and deformations measured along the pile shaft using strain gauges and others probing tools were performed. It is found that soil density and the depth of moving layer have an opposite impact regarding the ultimate response of piles. A pile group embedded in dense sand requires less soil displacement to reach the ultimate soil reaction compared to those embedded in medium and loose sands. On the other hand, the larger the moving depth, the larger amount of lateral soil movement needs to develop the pile group its ultimate deformations. Furthermore, the group factor and the effect of pile spacing were highly related to the soil-structure interaction resulted from the transferring process of forces between pile rows with the existing of the rigid pile cap.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2018

The pile construction method is changing from the pile driving operation to the injected precast pile method. It is to prevent environmental damage and to minimize complaints caused by noise. Therefore, economic alternatives optimized for the injected precast pile method are required. In this study, the enhanced spun reinforced concrete piles manufactured by high strength materials were proposed. Experimental tests were conducted to evaluate their structural safety and nonlinear finite element analysis was performed to improve the reliability of experimental results. The experimental results and the analytical results were in good agreement with each other and the proposed enhanced spun reinforced concrete pile has better performance than that required by the design. However, the performance of the joint using the existing method used in the PHC pile was considered to be insufficient.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.553-570
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• 2016

A series of three-dimensional (3D) parametric finite element analyses have been performed to study the influence of the relative locations of pile tips with regards to the tunnel position on the behaviour of single piles and pile groups to adjacent tunnelling in weathered soil. When the pile tips are inside the influence zone, which considers the relative pile tip location with respect to the tunnel position, tunnelling-induced pile head settlements are larger than those computed from the Greenfield condition. However, when the pile tips are outside the influence zone, a reverse trend is obtained. When the pile tips are inside the influence zone, the tunnelling-induced tensile pile forces mobilised, but when the pile tips are outside the influence zone, compressive pile forces are induced because of tunnelling, depending on the shear stress transfer mechanism at the pile-soil interface. For piles connected to a cap, tensile and compressive forces are mobilised at the top of the centre and side piles, respectively. It has been shown that the increases in the tunnelling-induced pile head settlements have resulted in reductions of the apparent factor of safety up to approximately 43% when the pile tips are inside the influence zone, therefore severely affecting the serviceability of the piles. The pile behaviour, when considering the location of the pile tips with regards to the tunnel, has been analysed in great detail by taking the tunnelling-induced pile head settlements, axial pile forces, apparent factor of safety of the piles and shear transfer mechanism into account.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.603-615
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• 2023

Population growth and urbanization prompted engineers to propose more sophisticated and efficient transportation methods, such as underground transit systems. However, due to limited urban space, it is necessary to construct these tunnels in close proximity to existing infrastructure like high-rise buildings and bridges. Battered piles have been widely used for their higher stiffness and bearing capacity compared to vertical piles, making them effective in resisting lateral loads from winds, soil pressures, and impacts. Considerable prior research has been concerned with understanding the vertical pile response to tunnel excavation. However, the three-dimensional effects of tunnelling on adjacent battered piled foundations are still not investigated. This study investigates the response of a single battered pile to tunnelling at three critical depths along the pile: near the pile shaft (S), next to the pile (T), and below the pile toe (B). An advanced hypoplastic model capable of capturing small strain stiffness is used to simulate clay behaviour. The computed results reveal that settlement and load transfer mechanisms along the battered pile, resulting from tunnelling, depend significantly on the tunnel's location relative the length of the pile. The largest settlement of the battered pile occurs in the case of T. Conversely, the greatest pile head deflection is caused by tunnelling near the pile shaft. The battered pile experiences "dragload" due to negative skin friction mobilization resulting from tunnel excavation in the case of S. The battered pile is susceptible to induced bending moments when tunnelling occurs near the pile shaft S whereas the magnitude of induced bending moment is minimal in the case of B.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.1156-1163
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• 2010

The bi-directional high pile load test(BDH PLT) does not have weaknesses found in the existing bi-directional low pile load test(BDL PLT); it has strong economics, is unbound by load capacity limit and secures quality stability of working piles. In this study, Verification the field found a very high capacity level of stability and reliability of the BDH PLT, as well as outstanding field applicability. Field verifications reaffirmed the advantage of the BDH PLT device, which was capable of loading 90 MN capacities as maximum. It was also found to be durable enough to load high capacity with ease.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.519-540
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• 2013

This paper presents an optimal design method for determining pile lengths of piled raft foundations. The foundation settlement is evaluated by taking into account the raft-pile-soil interaction. The analysis of settlement is simplified by using Steinbrenner's equation. Then the total pile length is minimized under the settlement constraint. An extended sequential linear programming technique combined with an adaptive step-length algorithm of pile lengths is used to solve the optimal design problem. The accuracy of the simplified settlement analysis method and the validity of the obtained optimal solution are investigated through the comparison with the actual measurement result in existing piled raft foundations.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.609-618
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• 2018

A new mechanical model for predicting the vibration of a pipe pile embedded in longitudinally layered visco-elastic media with radial inhomogeneity is proposed by extending Novak's plain-strain model and complex stiffness method to consider viscous-type damping. The analytical solutions for the dynamic impedance, the velocity admittance and the reflected signal of wave velocity at the pile head are also derived and subsequently verified by comparison with existing solutions. An extensive parametric analysis is further performed to examine the effects of shear modulus, viscous damping coefficient, coefficient of disturbance degree, weakening or strengthening range of surrounding soil and longitudinal soft or hard interbedded layer on the velocity admittance and the reflected signal of wave velocity at the pile head. It is demonstrated that the proposed model and the obtained solutions provide extensive possibilities for practical application compared with previous related studies.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.769-781
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• 2015

The skin friction of a pile foundation is important and essential for its design and analysis. More attention has been given to the softening behaviour of skin friction of a pile. In this study, to investigate the load-transfer mechanism in such a case, an analytical solution using a nonlinear softening model was derived. Subsequently, a load test on the pile was performed to verify the newly developed analytical solution. The comparison between the analytical solution and test results showed a good agreement in terms of the axial force of the pile and the stress-strain relationship of the pile-soil interface. The softening behaviour of the skin friction can be simulated well when the pile is subjected to large loads; however, such behaviour is generally ignored by most existing analytical solutions. Finally, the effects of the initial shear modulus and the ratio of the residual skin friction to peak skin friction on the load-settlement curve of a pile were investigated by a parametric analysis.