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2D Numerical Simulation of a Dynamic Centrifuge Test for a Pile-Supported Structure (2차원 수치해석을 이용한 말뚝 지지구조물의 동적 원심모형실험 거동 모사)

  • Chanh, Pham Viet;Tran, Nghiem Xuan;Kim, Sung-Ryul
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.34 no.8
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    • pp.15-26
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    • 2018
  • Recently, as the seismic performance based design methods have been introduced, dynamic numerical analyses need to be performed to evaluate the actual performance of structures under earthquakes. The verification of the numerical modeling is the most important for the performance based design. Therefore, 2-dimensional numerical analyses were performed to simulate the seismic behavior of a pile-supported structure, to provide the proper numerical modeling and to determine of input parameters. A dynamic centrifuge test of a pile group in dry loose sand was simulated to verify the applicability of the numerical model. The numerical modeling was carefully made to reflect the actual condition of the centrifuge test including dynamic soil properties, soil-pile interaction, boundary condition, the modeling of the group pile and structure and so on. The predicted behavior of the numerical analyses successfully simulated the acceleration variation in ground, the moment and displacement of the pile, and the displacement and acceleration of the structure. Therefore, the adopted numerical modeling and the input parameters can be used to evaluate the seismic performance of pile groups.

Interaction Factors of One-Row Pile Groups Subjected to Lateral Soil Movements (측방 유동을 받는 일렬 군말뚝의 상호 작용 계수)

  • Jeong, Snag-Seom;Kim, Byung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.157-162
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    • 2000
  • 측발유동을 받는 일렬 군말뚝의 그룹효과를 파악하이 위해 3차원 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 국내의 대표적인 화강풍화토 지반에 선단지지된 말뚝을 대상으로 측방으로 지반변위 발생시 말뚝 두부조건과 중심간격(2.5D, 5.0D, 7.0D, 단독말뚝) 및 말뚝주면의 접촉효과를 고려한 군말뚝의 상호작용계수를 산정하였다. 본 연구 결과, 단독말뚝과 비교하여 군말뚝의 간격이 좁아짐에 따라 상호작용계수는 현저하게 감소하였으며 말뚝 두부조건이 회전구속, 힌지,자유단의 순으로 감소정도가 크게 나타났다. 이는 실내모형실험을 통해 산정된 상호작용계수와도 비교적 잘 일치함을 보였다.

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Application and Verification of Coupled Analysis of Piled Piers (교량 말뚝기초 해석기법의 적용성 분석)

  • Won Jin-Oh;Jeong Sang-Seom
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.123-134
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    • 2005
  • A coupled three-dimensional pile group analysis method (YSGroup) was developed considering nonlinear pile head stiffness matrices and compared with other analytical methods (elastic displacement method, Group 6.0 and FBPier 3.0). In this method, a pile cap was modelled by four-node flat shell element, a pier was modelled using 3 dimensional beam element, and individual piles were modelled as beam-column elements. Through the comparative studies on a piled pie. subjected to lateral loads in linear soil, it was found that present method (YSGroup), elastic displacement method and Group 6.0 gave similar results of lateral pile head displacement, but FBPier 3.0 was estimated to show somewhat larger displacements than those from the three methods. Displacements of superstructure (pier), including nonlinear soil behavior, could be estimated by present method (YSGroup) and FBPier 3.0 because these two methods modelled the superstructure directly by finite element techniques. It was found that pile groups in pinned pile head condition had a tendency to cause excessive rotation of the pile cap.

Interaction analysis of three storeyed building frame supported on pile foundation

  • Rasal, S.A.;Chore, H.S.;Sawant, V.A.
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.455-483
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    • 2018
  • The study deals with physical modeling of a typical three storeyed building frame supported by a pile group of four piles ($2{\times}2$) embedded in cohesive soil mass using three dimensional finite element analysis. For the purpose of modeling, the elements such as beams, slabs and columns, of the superstructure frame; and that of the pile foundation such as pile and pile cap are descretized using twenty noded isoparametric continuum elements. The interface between the pile and the soil is idealized using sixteen node isoparametric surface element. The soil elements are modeled using eight nodes, nine nodes and twelve node continuum elements. The present study considers the linear elastic behaviour of the elements of superstructure and substructure (i.e., foundation). The soil is assumed to behave non-linear. The parametric study is carried out for studying the effect of soil- structure interaction on response of the frame on the premise of sub-structure approach. The frame is analyzed initially without considering the effect of the foundation (non-interaction analysis) and then, the pile foundation is evaluated independently to obtain the equivalent stiffness; and these values are used in the interaction analysis. The spacing between the piles in a group is varied to evaluate its effect on the interactive behaviour of frame in the context of two embedment depth ratios. The response of the frame included the horizontal displacement at the level of each storey, shear force in beams, axial force in columns along with the bending moments in beams and columns. The effect of the soil- structure interaction is observed to be significant for the configuration of the pile groups and in the context of non-linear behaviour of soil.

A study on the effect of tunnelling to adjacent single piles and pile groups considering the transverse distance of pile tips from the tunnel (말뚝의 횡방향 이격거리를 고려한 터널굴착이 인접 단독말뚝 및 군말뚝에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구)

  • Jeon, Young-Jin;Kim, Sung-Hee;Lee, Cheol-Ju
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.637-652
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    • 2015
  • In the present work, a number of three-dimensional (3D) parametric numerical analyses have been carried out to study the influence of tunnelling on the behaviour of adjacent piles considering the transverse distance of the pile tip from the tunnel. Single piles and $5{\times}5$ piles inside a group with a spacing of 2.5d were considered, where d is the pile diameter. In the numerical modelling, several key issues, such as the tunnelling-induced pile settlements, the interface shear stresses, the relative shear displacements, the axial pile forces, the apparent factors of safety and zone of influence have been rigorously analysed. It has been found that when the piles are inside the influence zone, the pile head settlements are increased up to about 111% compared to those computed from the Greenfield condition. Larger pile settlements and smaller axial pile forces are induced on the piles inside the pile groups than those computed from the single piles since the piles responded as a block with the surrounding ground. Also tensile pile forces are induced associated with the upward resisting skin friction at the upper part of pile and the downward acting skin friction at the lower part of pile. On the contrary, when the piles were outside the influence zone, tunnelling-induced compressive pile forces developed. Based on computed load and displacement relation of the pile, the apparent factor of safety of the piles was reduced up to about 45%. Therefore the serviceability of the piles may be substantially reduced. The pile behaviour, when considering the single piles and the pile groups with regards to the influence zone, has been analysed by considering the key features in great details.

An Experimental Study of Piled Raft Footing on Loose Sands (느슨한 모래지반에서의 말뚝지지 전면기초에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Kwon, Oh-Kyun;Lee, Whoal;Lee, Seung-Hyun;Oh, Se-Boong;Jang, Hak-Sung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2003.03a
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    • pp.439-446
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    • 2003
  • In this paper the model tests have been conducted and the results are compared with those by the theoretical methods to study the behaviors of the piled raft. The size of model box is 2.2m${\times}$2m${\times}$2m. The raft is made of rigid steel plate and piles made of steel pipes. Generally the bearing capacity of group piles is designed with only the pile capacities, and the bearing capacity of raft is ignored. But the uncertainty of pile-raft-soil interaction leads to conservative design ignoring the bearing effects of raft. In the case of considering the bearing capacity of raft, the simple sum of bearing capacity of raft and that of each pile cannot be the bearing capacity of piled raft. Because the pile-raft-soil interaction affects the behavior of piled raft. Thus the effects of pile-raft-soil interaction are very important in the optimal design. In this paper, the behaviors of piled raft are studied through model tests of 2${\times}$2, 2${\times}$3, and 3${\times}$3 pile groups. The spacing between piles is changed in the model tests. And the behaviors of free standing and piled raft are also studied.

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An Study of Behavior of Granuler soil for the Piled raft from the Model Test (모형실험을 이용한 사질토지반에서의 Piled raft 거동특성에 대한 연구)

  • Kwon, Oh-Kyun;Lee, Whoal;Kim, Jin-Bok;Lee, Seung-Hyun;Oh, Se-Boong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.358-365
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    • 2002
  • In this paper the model tests have been conducted and the results were compared with those by the theoretical methods to study the behaviors of the piled raft. The size of model box is 2.2m${\times}$2m${\times}$2m. The raft is made of rigid steel plate and piles are made of steel pipes. Generally the bearing capacity of group piles is designed with only the pile capacities, which is Ignored the bearing capacity of raft. But the uncertainty of pile-raft-soil interaction leads to conservative design ignoring the bearing effects of raft. In the case of considering the bearing capacity of raft, the simple sum of bearing capacity of raft and that of each pile cannot be the bearing capacity of piled raft. Because the pile-raft-soil interaction affects the behavior of piled raft. Thus the effects of pile-raft-soil interaction are very important in the optimal design. In this paper, the behaviors of piled raft are studied through model tests of 2${\times}$2, 2${\times}$3, and 3${\times}$3 pile groups. The spacing between piles is changed in the model tests. And the behaviors of free standing and piled raft are also studied.

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Evaluation of Particle Size Effect on Dynamic Behavior of Soil-pile System (모래 지반의 입자크기가 지반-말뚝 시스템의 동적 거동에 미치는 영향 평가)

  • Yoo, Min-Taek;Yang, Eui-Kyu;Han, Jin-Tae;Kim, Myoung-Mo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.03a
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    • pp.188-197
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents experimental results of a series of 1-g shaking table model tests performed on end-bearing single piles and pile groups to investigate the effect of particle size on the dynamic behavior of soil-pile systems. Two soil-pile models consisting of a single-pile and a $4{\times}2$-pile group were tested twice; first using Jumoonjin sand, and second using Australian Fine sand, which has a smaller particle size. In the case of single-pile models, the lateral displacement was almost within 1% of pile diameter which corresponds to the elastic range of the pile. The back-calculated p-y curves show that the subgrade reaction of the Jumoonjin-sand-model ground was larger than that of the Australian Fine-sand-model ground at the same displacement. This phenomenon means that the stress-strain behavior of Jumoonjin sand was initially stiffer than that of Australian Fine sand. This difference was also confirmed by resonant column tests and compression triaxial tests. And the single pile p-y backbone curves of the Australian fine sand were constructed and compared with those of the Jumoonjin sand. As a result, the stiffness of the p-y backbone curves of Jumunjin sand was larger than those of Australian fine sand. Therefore, using the same p-y curves regardless of particle size can lead to inaccurate results when evaluating dynamic behavior of soil-pile system. In the case of the group-pile models, the lateral displacement was much larger than the elastic range of pile movement at the same test conditions in the single-pile models. The back-calculated p-y curves in the case of group pile models were very similar in both sands because the stiffness difference between the Jumoonjin-sand-model ground and the Australian Fine-sand-model ground was not significantly large at a large strain level, where both sands showed non-linear behavior. According to a series of single pile and group pile test results, the evaluation group pile effect using the p-multiplier can lead to inaccurate results on dynamic behavior of soil-pile system.

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Vertical Interaction Factors of Pile Groups due to Downdrag (Downdrag에 의한 군말뚝의 상호작용계수)

  • Jeong, Sang Seom
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.343-354
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    • 1994
  • The group effect which causes different downdrag distribution in individual piles within the group was investigated by using a numerical analysis and an analytical study. The interaction factors due to group spacing and total number of piles in a group were estimated by using a three dimensional non-linear finite element approach. Based on the results obtained, it is shown that the interaction factors of pile groups varies remarkably according to the group spacing, a major influencing parameter for the group effect. Also the downdrag prediction by the proposed method was compared with the other analytical methods through an example of calculations.

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