• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.29-43
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• 2011

In this paper a semi-analytical approach is proposed to study the lateral behavior of a piled footing under horizontal loading. As accurate computation of stresses is usually needed at the interface separating the footing (pile) and the soil, this important location should be appropriately modeled as zero-thickness joint element. The piled footing is embedded in elastic soil with either homogeneous modulus or modulus proportional to depth (Gibson's soil). As the pile is the principal element in the piled footing system, a limited parametric study is carried out in order to investigate the influence of footing dimensions and the interface conditions on the lateral behavior of the pile. Hence, the pile behavior is examined through its main governing parameters, namely, the lateral displacement profiles, the bending moments, the shear forces and the soil reactions. The numerical results are presented for Poisson's ratio of 0.2 to represent a large variety of sands and Poisson's ratio of 0.5 to represent undrained clays.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.1114-1119
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• 2010

Pile foundations have been used for upholding superstructure's loads. The researches on pile foundations subjected to compressive forces or horizontal loads have been actively carried out. However, recently, pile foundations, which are subjected to pull-out forces, are getting increased. The study on the pull-out resistance of piles becomes to be important. In addition, it is expected that belled piles will be used more and more, since the belled piles are effective to resist the pull-out forces. But there is still a lack of research on pull-out resistance of belled piles. Therefore, in order to investigate the resisting effect against pull-out of belled piles which is embedded in cohesionless soil. a series of pull-out test is performed on belled piles in field. Especially, the relation between load and displacement is analyzed through the pull-out test.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2002년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.374-381
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• 2002

Several sensor systems are used to estimate the reinforceing effect of pile in hihg cut slopes, and to find a failure zone in slopes effectively. Inclinometer, extensometer and V/W sensor have shown a great potentiality to serve real time health monitoring of the slope structures. They were embedded or attached to the structures, we conducted field tests and test results have shown great solutions for sensor systems of Civil Engineering Smart Structures. This research is to seek for the relationships among the slope movement and the reinforceing effect of pile, and the strain distribution in a active zone by analyzing the data from the in-situ measurement so that the possible failure zone should be well defined based on the relationships. Also, the relationships between temperature and reinforceing effect of pile, and the strain distribution are estimated in this paper.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2022

본 연구는 말뚝으로 보강된 풍력발전기초의 수평저항력을 실내모형실험을 통해 구하였다. 특히 말뚝과 풍력발전기초 및 암반지반을 일체화시켜 기존의 중력식 풍력발전기초와의 수평저항력을 비교하였다. 또한 말뚝의 근입깊이를 달리하여 말뚝의 수평저항력 및 휨모멘트의 변화를 분석하였다. 그 결과 말뚝의 근입깊이가 깊어짐에 따라 수평저항력이 커짐을 알 수 있었다. 특히 암석층까지 말뚝이 근입된 경우가 사석층까지 근입된 경우보다 말뚝의 저항력 증가비가 2.11배 크게 나타났다. 말뚝이 암반지반까지 근입될 경우 최대 휨모멘트의 발생위치는 풍력발전기초와 사석층의 경계면에서 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 이를 통해 기존 중력식 풍력발전 기초보다 말뚝으로 보강된 풍력발전 기초의 수평저항력이 크게 나타남에 따라 안전성 측면에서 더 유리한 시공방법이 될 수 있을 것으로 파악된다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.123-131
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• 2006

지진 시 액상화에 의한 지반흐름은 말뚝파괴에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 알려져 있다. 실제로 충분히 큰 정적 안전율을 갖도록 설계된 말뚝이 지진 시 좌굴에 의해 파괴되는 사례가 빈번히 발생하였다. 본 연구에서는 1-g 진동대 실험을 통해 액상화 지반에 근입된 말뚝의 좌굴에 의한 파괴거동을 분석하였다. 실험 결과, 좌굴하중에 근접한 연직하중을 받고 있는 말뚝은 지반의 액상화 발생 시 좌굴에 의해 쉽게 파괴될 수 있으며 액상화에 의한 지반흐름이 발생할 경우, 말뚝의 횡방향 변형이 증가하면서 좌굴파괴하중이 감소함을 알 수 있었다. 또한 파괴된 말뚝을 꺼내어 관찰한 결과, 액상화가 발생한 후라도 지반에 구속압이 존재하여 Euler 좌굴현상과 다르게 말뚝 하부가 아닌 중간위치에서 말뚝파괴가 발생하였으며 지반경사가 급해질수록 지반흐름에 의한 파괴 위치가 점점 말뚝하부로 낮아짐을 볼 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2010년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.553-558
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• 2010

The behavior of composite piles composed of steel pipe pile in the upper part and concrete pile in the lower part by a mechanical splicing joint was examined by field lateral load tests and bending tests. A total of 7 piles including two instrumented piles for bending test were installed. The soil profile consists of soft clay with weak silt with shallow groundwater level. Laboratory tests were carried out to determine the basic soil characteristics and the strength parameters. This paper presents the composite pile behavior with various portions of the upper steel pile: 0, 20, 30, and 45% of the pile embedded pile length. Three-point bending tests were performed to investigate the stress-strain relation at the mechanical joint. Based on these test results, the behavior of composite piles with various upper steel pile length are evaluated and the stability of mechanical joints are examined. Through comparisons with results of field load tests, it was found that lateral load carrying capacity of the composite piles increased and deflections of the composite piles decreased with increasing the upper steel piles. The mechanical joint was proved to retain its structural stability against the tested load conditions. Economical benefits of composite pile of this kind can be gained by setting adequately the length of the upper steel pipe piles.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.193-205
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 수직 및 수평하중을 받는 군말뚝의 배열 및 중심간격을 고려한 실내모형실험을 수행하여 군말뚝기초의 거동특성을 분석하였다. 모형말뚝은 PVC말뚝을 사용하였으며 모형지반은 주문진표준사를 이용해 조밀한 사질토 지반(Dr=73%)으로 조성하였다. 말뚝의 배열은 $2\times2,\; 3\times3$ 배열, 말뚝중심간격은 말뚝직경의 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 배인 경우를 고려하였다. 실험결과 수직하중을 받는 말뚝에서는 두부에서의 수직하중-침하량곡선, 하중전이함수인 주면마찰락력-변위곡선(t-z 곡선)과 선단지지력-변위곡선(q-z 곡선)을 구하였으며, 수평하중을 받는 말뚝에서는 두부에서의 수평하중-수평변위곡선, 하중전이함수인 지반반력-변위곡선(p-y곡선)을 구하였고 이를 토대로 말뚝의 배열 및 중심간격에 따른 군말뚝계수를 제안하였다. 또한 수평하중을 받는 군말뚝의 각 열에 대해 상호작용계수(P-multiplier)를 산정하였다.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.381-395
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• 2012

Dynamic response of Pile Supported Structures is highly depended on Soil Pile Structure Interaction. In this paper, by comparison of experimental and numerical dynamic responses of a prototype jacket offshore platform for both hinge based and pile supported boundary conditions, effect of soil-pile-structure interaction on dynamic characteristics of this platform is studied. Jacket and deck of a prototype platform is installed on a hinge-based case first and then platform is installed on eight skirt piles embedded on continuum monolayer sand. Dynamic characteristics of platform in term of natural frequencies, mode shapes and modal damping are compared for both cases. Effects of adding and removing vertical bracing members in top bay of jacket on dynamic characteristics of platform for both boundary conditions are also studied. Numerical simulation of responses for the studied platform is also performed for both mentioned cases using capability of ABAQUS and SACS software. The 3D model using ABAQUS software is created using solid elements for soil and beam elements for jacket, deck and pile members. Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion and pile-soil interface element are used for considering nonlinear pile soil structure interaction. Simplified modeling of soil-pile-structure interaction effect is also studied using SACS software. It is observed that dynamic characteristics of the system changes significantly due to soil-pile-structure interaction. Meanwhile, both of complex and simplified (ABAQUS and SACS, respectively) models can predict this effect accurately for such platforms subjected to dynamic loading in small range of deformation.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.55-79
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• 2010

The effect of soil-structure interaction on a single-storey, two-bay space frame resting on a pile group embedded in the cohesive soil (clay) with flexible cap is examined in this paper. For this purpose, a more rational approach is resorted to using the finite element analysis with realistic assumptions. Initially, a 3-D FEA is carried out independently for the frame on the premise of fixed column bases in which members of the superstructure are discretized using the 20-node isoparametric continuum elements. Later, a model is worked out separately for the pile foundation, by using the beam elements, plate elements and spring elements to model the pile, pile cap and soil, respectively. The stiffness obtained for the foundation is used in the interaction analysis of the frame to quantify the effect of soil-structure interaction on the response of the superstructure. In the parametric study using the substructure approach (uncoupled analysis), the effects of pile spacing, pile configuration, and pile diameter of the pile group on the response of superstructure are evaluated. The responses of the superstructure considered include the displacement at top of the frame and moments in the columns. The effect of soil-structure interaction is found to be quite significant for the type of foundation considered in the study. Fair agreement is observed between the results obtained herein using the simplified models for the pile foundation and those existing in the literature based on a complete three dimensional analysis of the building frame - pile foundation - soil system.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.57-73
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• 2012

The paper presents the analysis of two groups of piles subjected to lateral loads incorporating the non-linear behaviour of soil. The finite element method is adopted for carrying out the parametric study of the pile groups. The pile is idealized as a one dimensional beam element, the pile cap as two dimensional plate elements and the soil as non-linear elastic springs using the p-y curves developed by Georgiadis et al. (1992). Two groups of piles, embedded in a cohesive soil, involving two and three piles in series and parallel arrangement thereof are considered. The response of the pile groups is found to be significantly affected by the parameters such as the spacing between the piles, the number of piles in a group and the orientation of the lateral load. The non-linear response of the system is, further, compared with the one by Chore et al. (2012) obtained by the analysis of a system to the present one, except that the soil is assumed to be linear elastic. From the comparison, it is observed that the non-linearity of soil is found to increase the top displacement of the pile group in the range of 66.4%-145.6%, while decreasing the fixed moments in the range of 2% to 20% and the positive moments in the range of 54% to 57%.