• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.195-211
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• 2014

Stone columns (or granular column) have been used to increase the load carrying capacity and accelerating consolidation of soft soil. Recently, the geosynthetic reinforced stone column technique has been developed to improve the load carrying capacity of the stone column. In addition, reinforcement prevents the lateral squeezing of stone in to surrounding soft soil, helps in easy formation of stone column, preserve frictional properties of aggregate and drainage function of the stone column. This paper investigates the improvement of load carrying capacity of isolated ordinary and geotextile reinforced sand column through field load tests. Tests were performed with different reinforcement stiffness, diameter of sand column and reinforcement length. The results of field load test indicated an improved load carrying capacity of geotextile reinforced sand column over ordinary sand column. The increase in load carrying capacity depends upon the sand column diameter, stiffness of reinforcement and reinforcement length. Also, the partial reinforcement length about two to four time's sand column diameter from the top of the column was found to significant effect on the performance of sand column.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.329-342
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• 2019

In this paper, the effect of a group of sand columns in the loose soil bed using triaxial tests was studied. To investigate the effect of geotextile reinforcement type on the bearing capacity of these sand columns, Vertical encased sand columns (VESCs) and horizontally reinforced sand columns (HRSCs) were used. Number of sixteen independent triaxial tests and finite element simulation were performed on specimens with a diameter of 100 mm and a height of 200 mm. Specimens were reinforced by either a single sand column or three sand columns with the same area replacement ratio (16%) to evaluate the Influence of the column arrangement. Effect the number of sand columns, the length of vertical encasement and the number of horizontal reinforcing layers were investigated, in terms of bearing capacity improvement and economy. The results indicated that the ultimate bearing capacity of the samples with three ordinary sand columns (OSCs) is eventually about 11% more than samples with an OSC. Also, comparison of the column reinforcing modes showed that four horizontal layers of geotextile achieved similar performance to a vertical encasement geotextile at the 50% of the column height, from the viewpoint of strength improvement, while from the viewpoint of economy, the geotextile needed for encasing the single column is around 2.5 times of the geotextile required for four layers.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제29권12호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 토사 유동과 같은 대변형 해석을 위해 기존 유한요소법이나 유한차분법과 달리 격자를 사용하지 않는 입자법을 사용하였으며, 입자법은 구배, 발산, 라플라시안과 같은 미분연산자에 대응하는 입자간 상호작용모델을 이용하여 연속체의 지배방정식을 이산화하였다. 외부 하중이나 함수비 증가에 따라 고체에서 유체 상태로 변하는 흙의 3차원 대변형 거동을 해석하기 위해 기존 입자법에 흙의 파괴상태를 고려할 수 있는 Mohr-Coulomb 파괴기준을 도입하였으며, 흙의 파괴 이전의 항복이나 경화현상으로 인한 대변형은 흙을 점성 유체로 가정하여 해석하였다. 개발된 입자법은 먼저 구속압이 작용하지 않고 강도가 0인 모래기둥 붕괴실험 결과를 이용하여 검증한 다음, 점착력을 가지고 자립이 가능한 점토기둥 붕괴실험을 실시하여 흙의 항복이나 파괴로 인한 대변형을 시뮬레이션하였다. 개발된 입자법은 모래와 점토의 3차원 대변형 거동을 유사하게 잘 예측하였으며, 파괴 이전에 발생하는 흙의 항복으로 인한 소성변형에 따른 흙기둥 내의 수직 및 전단응력 변화도 계산할 수 있었다.