• 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.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.443-455
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• 2023

This is a research analyses on the bearing capacity at a pile tip embedded in rock. The aim is to propose a shape coefficient for an analytical solution and to investigate the influence of the plastic flow law on the problem. For this purpose, the finite difference method is used to analyze the bearing capacity of various types and states of rock masses, assuming the Hoek & Brown failure criterion, by considering both plane strain and an axisymmetric model. Different geometrical configurations were adopted for this analysis. First, the axisymmetric numerical results were compared with those obtained from the plane strain analytical solution. Then the pile shape influence on the bearing capacity was studied. A shape factor is now proposed. Furthermore, an evaluation was done on the influence of the plastic flow law on the pile tip bearing capacity. Associative flow and non-associative flow with null dilatancy were considered, resulting in a proposed correlation. A total of 324 cases were simulated, performing a sensitivity analysis on the results and using the graphic output of vertical displacement and maximum principal stress to understand how the failure mechanism occurs in the numerical model.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2001년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.355-362
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• 2001

Since micropiles were conceived in Italy in the early 1950s, which have been widely used for In-situ reinforcement, bearing pile or the concept of combination in the world-wide. The meaning of micropiles usually differs from that of a general deep foundation. Because the load capacity of it was mainly affected by skin friction. Also, it could be obtained the improvement effects of load capacity or ground's rigidity by the unitary behavior of ground and micropiles. In this study, The model tests were peformed on the dense sand where micropiles are set to the vertical direction. Strip footing was used in it. Steel bars of dia. 2 and 4㎜ were used in model tests of which the sand was attached on the surface, and the length of it was changed as 2B to 6B(where, B is width of strip footing) Through this process, the load capacity were analyzed from the test results in the relationship between load and displacement.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제17권
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• pp.111-118
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• 1997

This thesis is an experimental research of investigating behavior of single pile, subjected to the vertical compression loads, using the centrifuge facility located in the geotechnical engineering laboratory in Kangwon National University. Centrifugal model experiments of model pile were carried out changing diameter of model pile, relative density of sandy ground and the gravitational level applied in the centrifuge. Thus, their effects on the load-settlement behavior and the ultimate bearing capacity of pile were investigated. Experimental results obtained from centrifuge model tests were compared with the theoretical or semi-empirical equations to analyze values of ultimate bearing capacity of model pile. When we compare the ultimate bearing capacity of experimental results with the ultimate bearing capacity of theorical results, the experimental results appear more higher in the De Beer method and Meyerhof. Expecially, Terzaghi method is very same as the experimental results normally.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2011

지반의 지지력은 안정화, 다짐공법등 고전적인 지반개량공법에 의한 증대된다. 최근, 지지력을 향상시키기 위한 내구성이 있고 강성이 큰 토목섬유의 유용성때문에 지오텍스타일의 사용은 보편화되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 모래지반에 보강재를 수평으로 등간격 배치하여, 평면 변형률 상태의 실내모형실험을 실시하고 지지력의 개량효과와 거동을 분석하였다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2013

국내의 소음 진동규제는 점점 더 강화되고 있어 도심지 근접시공을 위해 현재의 저소음 저진동 공법보다 더욱 환경친화적인 공법이 필요하게 되었다. 이 연구에서는 무소음 무진동 공법을 위한 스크류콘크리트말뚝공법의 특징에 대하여 설명하였으며 국내 특정 현장에서 시험시공을 실시하고 말뚝재하시험을 실시하여 시공방법에 따른 연직하중 지지능력을 연구하였다. 선행굴착방식으로 시공된 스크류콘크리트말뚝의 연직압축지지력이 선단분출형슈방식으로 시공된 스크류콘크리트말뚝의 그것보다 70% 이상 크게 나타났다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제90권5호
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• pp.447-458
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• 2024

This study investigated the influence of scale ratio and vertical load on the seismic performance of Puzuo joints in traditional Chinese timber structures. Three low-cyclic reversed loading tests were conducted on three scaled specimens of Bujian Puzuo in Yingxian Wooden Pagoda. This study focused on the deformation patterns and analyzed seismic performance under varying scale ratios and vertical loads. The results indicated that the slip and rotational deformations of Bujian Puzuo were the primary deformations. The scale of the specimen did not affect the layer where the maximum interlayer slip occurred, but it did decrease the proportion of slip deformation. Conversely, the reducing vertical load caused the layer with the maximum slippage and the position of the damaged Dou components to shift upward, and the proportion of slip deformation increased. When the vertical load was decreased by 3.7 times, the maximum horizontal bearing capacity under positive and negative loadings, initial stiffness, and energy dissipation of the specimen decreased by approximately 60%, 58.79%, 69.62%, and 57.93%, respectively. The horizontal bearing capacity under positive loading and energy dissipation of the specimen increased by 35.63% and 131.54%, when the specimen scale was doubled and the vertical load was increased by 15 times.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.915-922
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• 1994

본 논문은 준강성 보강재를 수직방향으로 설치함으로써 연약지반을 개량할 수 있는 장래 현장에서 유용하게 사용될 보강토방법을 제시하였다. 실내모형실험은 보강재를 연약한 사질토층에 수직방향으로 설치하고 그 상부에 두 종류의 모형얕은기초를 축조한 후 보강되지 않은 사질토층과 보강된 사질토층에 대한 지지력을 비교하였다. 또한 보강재표면의 거칠기에 따른 효과와 보강재의 길이, 설치간격, 측면 보강범위와 사질토의 초기상대밀도에 따른 극한지지팩의 증가에 대하여 평가하였다. 실험결과 상대밀도가 낮게나 중간 정도인 사질토층에 보강재를 수직방향으로 설치하였을 때 극한지지력이 상당량 증가됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.5-12
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• 1995

말뚝의 재하시험이 연직지지력을 추정하기 위한 다양한 정보를 제공한다 할지라도 시험 말뚝을 극한하중까지 도달하도록 충분히 재하시킨다는 것은 상당히 어려운 일이며, 이와 같이 파괴시까지 재하하지 못한 말뚝의 연직재하시험의 결과로부터 지지력을 추정하는데 있어서 많은 도해적 방법과 수학적 방법이 시도되었다. 파괴하중을 추정하기 위하여 Southwel 연 이론을 기초로 최대곡률을 이용한 해석적 방법이 필자 등에 의하여 발표된 바 있다. 여기서 파괴하중은 Crowther가 정의한 바와 같이 특정한 기준 을 초과하였을 때의 하중으로 정의하였다. 본 논문은 최대곡률 방법에 의한 허용하중을 결정하기 위하여 Davission의 방법 및 DIN 4014의 허용하중과 비교하여 최대곡률 방법의 안전율을 2.5로 제안하였다. 그 결과 파괴시까지 재하하지 못한 연직재하시험의 결과치로부터 말뚝의 연직지지력을 추정 하는데 있어서 최대곡률 방법에 의한 허용하중의 결정은 타당성이 있는 것으로 판단되었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.599-614
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• 2022

One of the methods of stabilizing retaining walls, embankments, and deep excavations is the implementation of plate anchors (like the Geolock wall anchor systems). Back-to-back Mechanically Stabilized Earth (BBMSE) walls are common stabilized earth structures that can be used for bridge ramps. But so far, the analysis of the interactive behavior of two back-to-back anchored walls (BBAW) by double-plates anchors (constructed closely from each other and subjected to the limited-breadth vertical loading) including interference of their failure and sliding surfaces has not been the subject of comprehensive studies. Indeed, in this compound system, the interaction of sliding wedges of these two back-to-back walls considering the shear failure wedge of the foundation, significantly impresses on the foundation bearing capacity, adjacent walls displacements and deformations, and their stability. In this study, the effect of horizontal distance between two walls (W), breadth of loading plate (B), and position of vertical loading was investigated experimentally. In addition, the comparison of using single and equivalent double-plate anchors was evaluated. The loading plate bearing capacity and displacements, and deformations of BBAW were measured and the results are presented. To evaluate the shape, form, and how the critical failure surfaces of the soil behind the walls and beneath the foundation intersect with one another, the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique was applied. The experimental tests results showed that in this composite system (two adjacent-loaded BBAW) the effective distance of walls is about W = 2.5*H (H: height of walls) and the foundation effective breadth is about B = H, concerning foundation bearing capacity, walls horizontal displacements and their deformations. For more amounts of W and B, the foundation and walls can be designed and analyzed individually. Besides, in this compound system, the foundation bearing capacity is an exponential function of the System Geometry Variable (SGV) whereas walls displacements are a quadratic function of it. Finally, as an important achievement, doubling the plates of anchors can facilitate using concrete walls, which have limitations in tolerating curvature.