• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.273-286
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• 2020

The pile group foundation is widely used for gravity pier of high-speed railway bridges in China. If a moderate or strong earthquake occurs, the pile-surrounding soil will exhibit obvious nonlinearity and significant pile group effect. In this study, an improved pushover analysis model for the pile group foundation with consideration of pile group effect is presented and validated by the quasi-static test. The improved model uses simplified springs to simulate the soil lateral resistance, side friction and tip resistance. PM (axial load-bending moment) plastic hinge model is introduced to simulate the impact of the axial force changing of pile group on their elastic-plastic characteristics. The pile group effect is considered in stress-stain relations of the lateral soil resistance with a reduction factor. The influence factors on nonlinear characteristics and plastic hinge distribution of the pile group foundation are discussed, including the pier height, longitudinal reinforcement ratio and stirrup ratio of the pile, and soil mechanical parameters. Furthermore, the displacement ductility factor, resistance increase factor and yielding stiffness ratio are provided to evaluate the seismic performance of soil-pile system. A case study for the pile group foundation of a railway simply supported beam bridge with a 32 m-span is conducted by numerical analysis. It is shown that the ultimate lateral force of pile group is not determined by the yielding force of the single one in these piles. Therefore, the pile group effect is essential for the seismic performance evaluation of the railway bridge with pile group foundation.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.127-132
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• 2002

사질토 지반에 근입된 모형말뚝에 대한 진동대 실험을 수행하여 말뚝지반 동적 상호작용 현상을 분석하고 동적군말뚝 효과를 산정하였다. 실험은 단말뚝과 말뚝간격을 말뚝직경의 3~8배로 변화시킨 $3\times3$ 군말뚝에 대하여 수행하였다. 동적 군맡뚝 효과는 단말뚝과 군말뚝의 동적 p-y곡선의 중심 기울기를 비교하여 산정하였고, 실험에서 얻어진 p-y곡선은 API의 반복 p-y곡선과 비교하였다. 실험결과 말뚝 간격, 입력 지진파의 주파수와 진폭 변화에 따른 동적 군말뚝 효과를 산정할 수 있었다.

• 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.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.523-533
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• 2020

The current study focuses on the effect of the end shape of steel pipe piles on installation effort and bearing resistance using the pressing method of installation under dense ground conditions. The effect of pile rotation on the installation effort and bearing resistance is also investigated. The model steel piles with a flat end, cone end and cutting-edge end were used in this study. The test results indicated that cone end pile with the pressing method of installation required the least installation effort (load) and showed higher ultimate resistance than flat and cutting-edge end piles. However, pressing and rotation during cutting-edge end pile installation considerably reduces the installation effort (load and torque) if pile penetration in one rotation equal to the cutting-edge depth. Inclusion of rotation during pile installation reduces the ultimate bearing resistance. However, if penetration of the cutting-edge end pile equal to the cutting-edge depth in one rotation, the reduction in ultimate resistance can be minimized. In comparing the cone and cutting-edge end piles installed with pressing and rotation, the least installation effort is observed in the cutting-edge end pile installed with penetration rate equal to the cutting-edge depth per rotation.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.417-440
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• 2024

Artificial neural networks (ANN) have been the focus of several studies when it comes to evaluating the pile's bearing capacity. Nonetheless, the principal drawbacks of employing this method are the sluggish rate of convergence and the constraints of ANN in locating global minima. The current work aimed to build four ANN-based prediction models enhanced with methods from the black hole algorithm (BHA), league championship algorithm (LCA), shuffled complex evolution (SCE), and symbiotic organisms search (SOS) to estimate the carrying capacity of piles in cold climates. To provide the crucial dataset required to build the model, fifty-eight concrete pile experiments were conducted. The pile geometrical properties, internal friction angle 𝛗 shaft, internal friction angle 𝛗 tip, pile length, pile area, and vertical effective stress were established as the network inputs, and the BHA, LCA, SCE, and SOS-based ANN models were set up to provide the pile bearing capacity as the output. Following a sensitivity analysis to determine the optimal BHA, LCA, SCE, and SOS parameters and a train and test procedure to determine the optimal network architecture or the number of hidden nodes, the best prediction approach was selected. The outcomes show a good agreement between the measured bearing capabilities and the pile bearing capacities forecasted by SCE-MLP. The testing dataset's respective mean square error and coefficient of determination, which are 0.91846 and 391.1539, indicate that using the SCE-MLP approach as a practical, efficient, and highly reliable technique to forecast the pile's bearing capacity is advantageous.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2018

순환 유동층 보일러의 연소재를 고로슬래그의 알칼리 활성화 반응 자극제로 활용하여 개발한 새로운 매입말뚝의 주면고정액(ZA-Soil)을 시멘트밀크 공법의 주면고정액으로 사용한 말뚝에 대하여 정재하시험 및 동재하시험을 실시하여 보통 포틀랜드시멘트(OPC)와 비교하여 성능을 평가하였다. 정재하시험을 수행한 결과 말뚝의 허용하중은 1,350kN로 보통 포틀랜드시멘트를 매입말뚝의 주면고정액으로 사용한 결과와 동일하였고, 전 침하량은 6.97mm, 순 침하량은 1.48mm로 보통 포틀랜트시멘트의 전 침하량 7.825mm, 순 침하량 2.005mm와 유사한 결과를 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 동재하시험 및 CAPWAP분석을 실시한 결과, 새로운 매입말뚝의 주면고정액(ZA-Soil)의 주면 마찰력은 375.0kN, 선단 지지력은 3,045.9kN, 허용지지력은 1,368.36kN으로 나타났고, 포틀랜드시멘트를 매입말뚝의 주면고정액으로 사용한 결과와 유사한 결과를 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2011

Recently, as large structures, which should support large design loads have been constructed, the study on the large diameter composite pile becomes necessary. The large diameter composite pile has the diameter over 700mm and consists of two parts of the upper steel pipe pile and the lower PHC pile by a mechanical joint. In this research, to analyze the bearing capacity and the material strength of the composite pile, three dimensional numerical analyses were performed. First, the numerical modeling method was verified by comparing the calculated load-movement curves of the pile with those of the field pile load tests. Then, a total of twelve analyses were performed by varying pile diameter and loading direction for three pile types of PHC, steel pipe and composite piles. The results showed that the vertical and the horizontal load-movement curves of the composite pile were identical with those of the steel pipe pile and the horizontal material strength of the composite pile was 60-80% larger than that of the PHC pile.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.389-397
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• 2021

Pile foundation is a typical form of bridge foundation and viaduct, and large-diameter rock-socketed piles are typically adopted in bridges with long span or high piers. To investigate the effect of a mountain slope with a deep overburden layer on the bearing characteristics of large-diameter rock-socketed piles, four centrifuge model tests of single piles on different slopes (0°, 15°, 30° and 45°) were carried out to investigate the effect of slope on the bearing characteristics of piles. In addition, three pile group tests with different slope (0°, 30° and 45°) were also performed to explore the effect of slope on the bearing characteristics of the pile group. The results of the single pile tests indicate that the slope with a deep overburden layer not only accelerates the drag force of the pile with the increasing slope, but also causes the bending moment to move down owing to the increase in the unsymmetrical pressure around the pile. As the slope increases from 0° to 45°, the drag force of the pile is significantly enlarged and the axial force of the pile reduces to beyond 12%. The position of the maximum bending moment of the pile shifts downward, while the magnitude becomes larger. Meanwhile, the slope results in the reduction in the shaft resistance of the pile, and the maximum value at the front side of the pile is 3.98% less than at its rear side at a 45° slope. The load-sharing ratio of the tip resistance of the pile is increased from 5.49% to 12.02%. The results of the pile group tests show that the increase in the slope enhances the uneven distribution of the pile top reaction and yields a larger bending moment and different settlements on the pile cap, which might cause safety issues to bridge structures.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2023

본 연구에서는 3D 프린팅 기술을 활용하여 타입말뚝 선단의 모양에 따른 관입성 분석을 현장 축소모형시험을 통해 관찰하고, 대변형 수치해석을 통해 타입 중 말뚝 선단에 집중되는 최대응력의 변화를 확인하였다. 3D 프린터를 통하여 다양한 직경, 각도 그리고 모양의 말뚝 선단 모형을 제작하였고, 이를 현장 축소모형시험에 활용하였다. 이를 통해, 말뚝 선단 조건에 따른 말뚝의 침하량의 변화를 관찰하였다. 더 나아가, 대변형 수치해석 기법을 적용하여 다양한 말뚝 선단 조건에 따른 타입 중 말뚝 선단부의 최대응력의 변화와 최대응력 작용 위치 또한 확인하였다. 현장 축소모형시험과 대변형 수치해석의 결과 분석을 토대로 말뚝 선단 조건의 변화를 통해 타입말뚝의 관입성을 향상 시킬 수 있으며 선단부에 집중되는 최대응력 또한 완화 시켜 말뚝 시공 중 말뚝 손상을 방지할 수 있을 것으로 결론지을 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2006년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.574-584
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• 2006

Bi-directional loading test data are available to evaluate the design parameters which reflect the characteristics of a construction method and the variations of ground at the site where drilled shafts are installed. The method to obtain the design parameters of a real bridge by hi-directional loading test was introduced. The plans of multi-level testing and installation of measuring instruments should be made according to the rough estimation of axial bearing capacity, the length of pile, and the construction method. While the relationship between end bearing resistance and displacement was obtained directly from the hi-directional loading test, the relationship between unit side resistance and displacement was calculated through the measuring values. 1% displacement of pile diameter was adopted as the criteria of failure for ultimate resistance. As the settlement of pile head at the total ultimate bearing capacity obtained from these method was less than 1.5 % of pile diameter, this method was conservative to use in the field.