• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.179-187
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• 2020

Freezing-thawing cycles have significant effect on soils engineering behavior in frozen areas. This effect is more considerable in fine-graded than coarse-grained soils. The objective of this study is improving soil durability and strength in continues freezing-thawing cycles. For getting this purpose mixture of Polyvinyl Acetate (PVAc) and Ethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether (EGBE) has been added to fine-grained soil and final prepared samples were tested at different freezing-thawing cycles. PVAc was mixed with 1%, 2% and 3% of soil weight. Half of PVAc weight was used as weight of EGBE. Freezing-Thawing cycles were exposed to samples and they were tested at different cycles. Results showed that adding mixture of PVAc+EGBE improved strength and durability of samples up to 10 freezing-thawing cycles. Unconfined compress strength tests were applied to samples and stress and strain of samples were tested on failure time. Behavior of samples was different at different percentages of mixture. Results showed that increasing amount of PVAc from 1% to 2% had more considerable effect on final stress than 2% to 3%. Using higher percentages of PVAc + EGBE mixture leaded to that samples carried more strain before collapsing. Another result gained from tests was that, freezing-thawing effect was more considerable after fourth cycles. It means differences between first and fourth cycles were more considerable than differences between fourth and tenth.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.247-256
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• 2016

In this paper, based on understanding the design theories on soil stabilization, a series of soil stabilizers were prepared with different kinds of industrial wastes such as calcined coal gangue (CCG), blast furnace slag (SS), steel slag (SL), carbide slag (CS), waste alkali liquor (JY), and phosphogypsum (PG). The results indicated that when the Portland cement (PC) proportion was lower than 20% in the stabilizer, for the soil sample selected from Wuhan (WT) and Beijing (BT), the unconfined compress strength (UCS) of the stabilized soil specimens could increase 4.8 times and 5.4 times respectively than that of the specimens stabilized only by PC; compared with the UCS of the specimen stabilized only by PC, the UCS of the specimen which was made from soil sample WT and stabilized by the stabilizer composed only by CCG, CS, and PG increased 1.5 times, and UCS of the specimen which was made from soil sample BT and stabilized by the stabilizer composed only by SS, JY, and PG increased 4.5 times.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권1C호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2006

대부분의 설계지침서에서는 암반에 근입된 현장타설말뚝의 주면저항력을 산출하기 위하여 암석의 일축압축강도를 사용한다. 그러나 최근에 도로교 설계기준 해설(대한토목학회, 2001)과 AASHTO 설계지침서(2000)에서는 현장조건을 보다 잘 반영할 수 있도록 RQD를 적용하여 산출한 암반의 일축압축강도를 사용하도록 개정되었다. 그런데 RQD를 이용하여 암반의 일축압축강도를 산정하는 식을 국내의 주요 기반암에 적용하는 데에 문제가 제기되었고, 여기에는 RQD 자체의 문제점, 즉 지하수, 절리면 상태 등을 반영하지 못한다는 점도 포함되었다. 결국 도로교 설계기준 해설(2001)은 암석의 일축압축강도를 이용하여 주면저항력을 산정하는 방법으로 다시 개정되었다(한국도로공사, 2002). 본 연구에서는 암석의 일축압축강도와 현장 암반의 일축압축강도를 연관시키는 수단으로 제시되어 있는 기존의 여러 방법을 비교 검토하였으며, 이 가운데 신뢰도가 있는 것으로 평가되고 있는 Hoek-Brown 파괴 규준을 이용하여 암반의 일축압축강도 추정식을 제시하였다. 또한 이를 이용하여 암반에 근입된 현장타설말뚝의 주면저항력 예측 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 현장타설말뚝의 재하시험 데이터를 이용하여 기존의 여러 방법으로 구한 주면저항력과 비교한 결과 신뢰도가 있음을 알 수 있었다.