• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

This paper proposes a new numerical approach to model geocell reinforced soils, where the geocell is described as membrane elements and the complex interaction between geocell and soil is realized by coupling their degrees of freedom. The effectiveness and robustness of this approach are demonstrated using two examples, i.e., a geocell-reinforced foundation and a large scale retaining wall project. The first example validates the approach against established solutions through a comprehensive parametrical study to understand the influence of geocell on the improvement of bearing capacity of foundations. The study results show that reducing the geocell pocket size has a strong effect on improving the bearing capacity. In addition, when the aspect ratio maintains the same value, the bearing capacity improvement with increasing geocell height is insignificant. Comparing with the field monitoring and measurement in the project, the second example investigates the application of the approach to practical engineering projects. This paper provides a practically feasible and efficient modelling approach, where no explicit interface or contact is required. This allows geocell reinforced soils in large scale project can be effectively modelled where the mechanism for complex geocell-soil interaction can be explicitly observed.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2019

Massive investments are going on to promote and build transportation infrastructure all across the globe with the challenges being more than budgetary. Sandy soils which are predominant in coastal and border areas in India have typical characteristics. The shear strength of such soil is very low which makes it difficult for any kind of geotechnical construction and hence soil stabilization needs to be carried out for such soil conditions. The use of geocells is one of the most economical methods of soil improvement which is used to increase strength and stiffness and reduce the liquefaction potential of the soil. The use of geocells in stabilizing desert sand and results from a series of plate load test on unreinforced soil and geocell reinforced homogenous sand beds are presented in the present study. It also compares the field results using various load class vehicles like heavy load military vehicles on geocell reinforced soils with the experimental results and comes out with the fact that the proposed technique increases the strength and stiffness of sandy soil considerably and provides a solution for preventing settlement and subsidence.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.301-315
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• 2023

Adopting cohesive soil as geocell-pocket infill materials is not fully accepted by researchers in the field of road engineering. The cohesion that may inhibit the lateral limitation of geocells is a common vital idea that exists within every researcher. However, the influence of infill materials' cohesion on geocell-reinforced performance is still not thoroughly determined. The mechanism behind this still needs to be studied in depth. This study initially discussed the relationship between subgrade bearing capacity, geocells' contribution to reinforced performance, and infill materials' cohesion (IMC). A law was proposed that adopting the soil with high cohesion as infill materials benefited the subgrade bearing capacity, but this was attributed to the superior mechanical properties of infill materials rather than geocells' contribution. Moreover, the vertical and lateral deformation of subgrade, coupling shear stress and confining stress of geocells, and deformation of geocells were deeply studied to analyze the mechanism that high cohesion can inhibit the geocells' contribution. The results indicate that the infill materials with high cohesion result in the total displacement of the subgrade toward to deeper depth, not the lateral direction. These responses decrease the vertical coupling shear stress, confining stress, and normal displacement of geocell walls, which weaken the lateral limitation of geocells.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

최근들어, 사용 종료된 폐기물 매립장을 공원 및 체육시설로 활용하는 사례가 증가하고 있으며, 사용종료 매립장 활용을 위해서는 일차적으로 환경영향 여부와 구조적 안정성이 중요하다. 특히 상부구조물 설치 시 지지력 및 침하에 대한 안정성을 확보하여야 하며 폐기물 매립지반의 침하에 대한 안정성 확보와 지지력 보강을 위하여 토목섬유(지오셀)을 포설하기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 사용 종료된 폐기물 매립장의 장기침하 계측결과 분석 및 매립지반에 대한 지오셀 보강 시 지지력 보강효과에 대하여 분석하였다. 장기침하 분석은 매립장의 현장계측 침하량과 쓰레기 침하 모델식별 산정된 침하량을 비교하였고, 각 모델식별로 침하량에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 파라메타를 분석하였다. 본 연구결과에 따르면, Park모델식에 따른 예측침하량($C_{intermediate}$ = 0.0678)이 현장계측 침하량과 가장 유사한 경향을 나타내었다. 또한, 지오셀 보강에 따른 지지력 증가는 무보강 지반에 비하여 약 1.193~1.554배 증가되는 것으로 도출되었다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.5-12
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 타이어셀로 보강된 모래지반에 대한 평판재하시험을 유한요소법에 의해 모델링하였다. 타이어셀의 기능과 외양은 지오셀과 비슷하며 지오셀과 마찬가지로 토목구조물에서 지반보강 목적으로 사용할 수 있다. 해석결과는 모델링의 적절성을 평가하기 위해 현장 재하시험결과와 비교하였다. 두 결과의 비교로부터 유한요소해석에 의한 침하량은 극한지지력에서 실험결과와 유사한 값을 나타내었다. 모델링을 검증한 후 타이어셀의 보강깊이와 보강층 수의 변화에 대한 해석을 수행하였다. 보강효과는 보강깊이가 증가함에 따라 감소하였으며 이러한 경향은 기존의 시험결과와 유사하였다. 보강층수가 증가함에 따라 보강효과는 증가하였다. 그러나 2층 이상의 보강은 효과가 무시할 정도였다. 결론적으로 본 연구에서의 모델링 방법은 타이어셀을 사용한 지반구조물의 해석에 사용할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.