• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.129-141
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• 2021

The vacuum preloading method has been used in many countries for soil improvement and land reclamation. However, the treatment time is long and the improvement effect is poor for the straight-line vacuum preloading method. To alleviate such problems, a novel combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading method for shallow ground treatment is proposed in this study. Two types of traditional vacuum preloading and combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading tests were conducted and monitored in the field. In both tests, the depth of prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) is 4.5m, the distance between PVDs is 0.8m, and the vacuum preloading time is 60 days. The prominent difference between the two methods is when the preloading time is 45 days, the injection pressure of 250 kPa is adopted for combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading test to inject air into the ground. Based on the monitoring data, this paper systematically studied the mechanical parameters, hydraulic conductivity, pore water pressure, settlement and subsoil bearing capacity, as determined by the vane shear strength, to demonstrate that the air-pressurizing system can improve the consolidation. The consolidation time decreased by 15 days, the pore water pressure decreased to 60.49%, and the settlement and vane shear strengths increased by 45.31% and 6.29%, respectively, at the surface. These results demonstrate the validity of the combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading method. Compared with the traditional vacuum preloading, the combined air booster and straight-line vacuum preloading method has better reinforcement effect. In addition, an estimation method for evaluating the average degree of consolidation and an empirical formula for evaluating the subsoil bearing capacity are proposed to assist in engineering decision making.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.377-389
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• 2014

The vacuum consolidation method which was proposed by Kjellman in 1952 has been studied extensively and used successfully since early 1980 throughout the world, especially in East and Southeast Asia. Despite the increased successful use, different opinions still exist, especially in connection to distribution of vacuum with depth and time in vertical drains and in soil during preloading of soft ground. Porewater pressure measurements from actual cases of field vacuum and vacuum-fill preloading as well as laboratory studies have been examined. It is concluded that (a) a vacuum magnitude equal to that in the drainage blanket remains constant with depth and time within the vertical drains, (b) as expected, vacuum does not develop at the same rate within the soil at different depths; however, under ideal conditions vacuum is expected to become constant with depth in soil after the end of primary consolidation, and (c) there exists a possibility of internal leakage in vacuum intensity at some sublayers of a soft clay and silt deposit. A case history of vacuum loading with sufficient subsurface information is analyzed using the ILLICON procedure.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 1997년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.97-110
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• 1997

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.525-537
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• 2014

The typical design of ground improvement with prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) and surcharge preloading involves a series of deterministic analyses using averaged or mean soil properties for the various combination of the PVD spacing and surcharge preloading height that would meet the criteria for minimum consolidation time and required degree of consolidation. The optimum design combination is then selected in which the total cost of ground improvement is a minimum. Considering the variability and uncertainties of the soil consolidation parameters, as well as considering the effects of soil disturbance (smear zone) and drain resistance in the analysis, this study presents a stochastic cost optimization of ground improvement with PVD and surcharge preloading. Direct Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and importance sampling (IS) technique is used in the stochastic analysis by limiting the sampled random soil parameters within the range from a minimum to maximum value while considering their statistical distribution. The method has been verified in a case study of PVD improved ground with preloading, in which average results of the stochastic analysis showed a good agreement with field monitoring data.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2005년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.1086-1093
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• 2005

In soft ground, consolidation settlement is mainly consider. The primary consolidation settlement which is the time when the excess pore water pressure is completely dispersed and the secondary consolidation settlement which follows. Recently as the depth of consolidation layer increases the consideration of not only the primary consolidation settlement but also of the secondary consolidation settlement becomes a very important element. But up to the present there were only a few in-depth study of the secondary consolidation settlement performed. At present there are a lot of methods available when it comes to the improvement of soft soil. In this study, Preloading Method which is the most commonly used soft soil improvement method locally was used in order to investigate the method for the reduction of secondary consolidation settlement. The objective of this study is to determine the amount of preloading required to reduce secondary consolidation settlement and to determine whether secondary consolidation settlement using standard consolidation test.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.419-436
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• 2014

Soil improvement by preloading with PVD in combination with vacuum is helpful when a considerable load is required to meet the desired rate of settlement in a relative short time. To facilitate the vacuum propagation, vertical drains are usually employed in conjunction. This ground improvement method is more and more applied in the Mekong delta of Vietnam to meet the needs of fast infrastructure development. This paper reports on a pilot test that was carried out to investigate the effect of ground improvement by vacuum and PVD on the rate of consolidation at the site of Saigon International Terminals Vietnam (SITV) in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, Viet Nam. Three main aspects of the test will be presented, and namely, instrumentation and field monitoring program, calculation of consolidation settlement and back-analysis of soil properties to see the difference before and after ground improvement.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.5-12
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• 1997

연약지반 개량을 위한 프리로딩 공법에서 침하 애측은 시공관리상 매우 중요한 요소이다. 지반의 비균질성, 지반 물성치 조사의 한계 등의 이유로 설계시에 침하속도 및 침하량을 실제 발생치와 근접하게 예측하기는 매우 어렵다. 이러한 문제점 때문에 쌍곡선법,아사오카법 등 초기 침하계측을 이용한 장래 침하 추정 법들이 침하 예측 기법으로 활발하게 이용되고 있으나, 예측 시점에서 추정된 장래 침하량의 신뢰성에 대한 평가 방법엔 대하여서는 제시된 바가 없다. 본 연구는 사례연구를 통하여 쌍곡선법으로 예측된 장래침하량들과 실 침하량들을 비교하구 초기 계측 기간에 따른 장래 침하량 예측의 신뢰성에 관한 분석을 통하여. 쌍곡선법을 이용한 장래 침하량 추정의 신뢰성 평가 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2018

In the water-filling and preloading test, the sensing cables were installed on the surface of steel spiral case and in the surrounding concrete to monitor the strain distribution of several cross-sections by using Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA), a kind of distributed optical fiber sensing (DOFS) technology. The average hoop strain of the spiral case was about $330{\mu}{\varepsilon}$ and $590{\mu}{\varepsilon}$ when the water-filling pressure in the spiral case was 2.6 MPa and 4.1 MPa. The difference between the measured and the calculated strain was only about $50{\mu}{\varepsilon}$. It was the first time that the stress adjustment of the spiral case was monitored by the sensing cable when the pressure was increased to 1 MPa and the residual strain of $20{\mu}{\varepsilon}$ was obtained after preloading. Meanwhile, the shrinkage of $70{\sim}100{\mu}{\varepsilon}$ of the surrounding concrete was effectively monitored during the depressurization. It is estimated that the width of the gap between the steel spiral case and the surrounding concrete was 0.51 ~ 0.75 mm. BOTDA based distributed optical fiber sensing technology can obtain continuous strain of the structure and it is more reliable than traditional point sensor. The strain distribution obtained by BOTDA provides strong support for the design and optimization of the spiral case structure.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.79-88
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• 1996

진공압밀공법은 성토재하압밀공법과는 달리 성토재료가 불필요하며, 급격한 재하에 의한 전단 파괴에 대한 위험이 없다는 공법원리상의 장점을 지니고 있으나, 시공상의 어려움으로 국내외적으로 활발하게 적용되지는 않았다. 그러나 최근들어 진공막 설치기술 및 강력한 진공펌프등의 등장으로 시공기술이 발전되면서 진공압밀공법은 미국, 유럽, 일주등지에서 적극적으로 활용되기 시작했고, 국내에서도 광양, 김해등지의 연약지반에 개량공법으로 적용된바 있다. 일반적으로 진공에 의한 부압을 가상성토하중으로 환산하고 이를 압밀이론에 적용하여 진공압밀시의 지반 거동을 예측하고 있다. 그러나 진공압을 가상성토하중으로 모델링할 경우 진공압밀공법적용시 지반내 전응력변화없이 유효응력만이 증가하는 현상을 적절히 모델링 할 수 없다. 즉 진공압에 대한 가상성토하중 모델링은 지반거동에 중요한 영향을 미치는 응력 경로를 실제와는 달리 고려하게 된다. 진공압 가상성토하중 모델링(model 1)의 적합성을 검토하기 위하여, 김해지역의 하수처리장 부지조성을 위하여 진공압밀공법이 적용된 지반에 대한 예측을 수행하였다. 일반적으로 Model 1은 진공압밀하에서의 지반침하에 대하여서는 합리적으로 예측할 수 있으나 진공부압 을 가상성토하중으로 가정하기 때문에 과잉간극수압의 크기 및 소산양상을 예측하는데는 적용 할 수 없다는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 진공압밀하에서의 실제와 같이 지반의 응력경로를 고려할 수 있도록, 진공에 의한 부압을 지표면 수압의 경계 치로서 모델링(model 2)하는 해석기법을 제안하였다. 현장계측치와 비교결과, Model 2는 압밀 침하량 및 침하시간뿐 아니라 과잉 간극 수압의 크기 및 소산양상 등 진공압밀하에서의 실 지반거동이 매우 유사하게 예측되었다.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.486-490
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• 2008

This study demonstrates that preloading via the elastostatic compression imposed on amorphous alloys at room temperature induces homogeneous plastic strain associated with structural disordering. This structural disordering causes disorder, which at room temperature creates excess free volume and in turn enhances the plasticity. In this study, we investigated the effects of various parameters, such as stress level, flow rate and preloading time, on the degree of the structural disordering at room temperature. On the basis of the present findings, we proposed a method of enhancing the plasticity of amorphous alloys.