Investigation on Behavior of Reinforced Segmental Retaining Walls

블럭식 보강토 옹벽의 거동 특성 연구

  • 유충식 (성균관대학교 공과대학 토목공학과) ;
  • 이광문 (성균관대학교 대학원 토목공학과)
  • Published : 1999.02.01

Abstract

Despite the frequent use of the soil-reinforced segmental retaining wall (SRW) system, the roles of the different components comprising the system, such as facing blocks, reinforcements, backfill, and block/backfill interface, are still not fully understood, and much still need to be investigated for more safe and economical design/analysis method. Therefore, this study was undertaken with the aim of understanding the effect of the shear strength of backfill material and the reinforcement stiffness on the behavior of SRW by using the finite element analysis. In the analysis the details of construction sequence and the SRW components were carefully modeled, and a parametric study was performed in order to investigate the effects of shear strength of backfill soil and reinforcement stiffness on the wall displacement and earth pressure, the vertical stress under the reinforced block, the reinforcement and block/reinforcement connection forces. Implications of the findings from this study to current design practices were discussed in detail.

블럭식 보강토 옹벽이 매우 활발히 적용되고 있음에도 불구하고 아직까지 블럭식 보강토 옹벽을 구성하는 블럭 벽체, 보강재, 뒤채움흙, 블럭/뒤채움흙 접촉면 등의 구성요소가 옹벽의 거동에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 대한 정확한 이해가 부족하며, 보다 안전하고 경제적인 설계를 위해서는 이에 대한 심도 있는 연구가 필요한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 유한요소해석을 이용하여 뒤채움흙의 전단특성 및 보강재의 강성이 블럭식 보강토 옹벽의 거동에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. 해석에서는 블럭식 보강토 옹벽의 각 구성요소 및 단계별 시공과정을 상세히 모델링하였으며, 해석결과를 토대로 뒤채움흙의 전단특성 및 보강재의 강성에 따른 벽체 변위 및 토압, 보강토체 저면 연직응력, 그리고 보강재 유발인장력 및 블럭/보강재 연결력 분포 경향을 고찰하고 현재 적용하고 있는 설계기준의 타당성을 검토하였다.

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