• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.547-567
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• 2015

This study investigates the behavior of group of tapered and cylindrical piles. The bearing capacities of groups of tapered and cylindrical piles are computed and compared. Modeling of group of piles in this study is conducted in sand using three-dimensional finite element software. For this purpose, total bearing capacity of each group is firstly calculated using the load-displacement curve under specific load and common techniques. Then, the model of group of piles is reloaded under this calculated capacity to find group settlements, stress states on the lateral surfaces of group block, efficiency of group and etc. In order to calculate the efficiency of each group, single tapered and cylindrical piles are modeled separately. Comparison for both tapered and cylindrical group of piles with same volume is conducted and a relation to predict tapered pile group efficiency is developed. A parametric study is also performed by changing parameters such as tapered angle, angle of internal friction of sand, dilatancy angle of soil and coefficient of lateral earth pressure to find their influences on single pile and pile group behavior.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.367-384
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• 2014

The study deals with the physical modeling of a typical single storeyed building frame resting on pile foundation and embedded in cohesive soil mass using the finite element based software SAP-IV. Two groups of piles comprising two and three piles, with series and parallel arrangement thereof, are considered. The slab provided at top and bottom of the frame along with the pile cap is idealized as four noded and two dimensional thin shell elements. The beams and columns of the frame, and piles are modeled using two noded one dimensional beam-column element. The soil is modeled using closely spaced discrete linear springs. A parametric study is carried out to investigate the effect of various parameters of the pile foundation, such as spacing in a group and number of piles in a group, on the response of superstructure. The response considered includes the displacement at the top of the frame and bending moment in columns. The soil-structure interaction effect is found to increase the displacement in the range of 38 -133% and to increase the absolute maximum positive and negative moments in the column in the range of 2-12% and 2-11%. The effect of the soil- structure interaction is observed to be significant for the type of foundation and soil considered in this study. The results obtained are compared further with those of Chore et al. (2010), wherein different idealizations were used for modeling the superstructure frame and sub-structure elements (foundation). While fair agreement is observed in the results in either study, the trend of the results obtained in both studies is also same.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2003

현행 무리말뚝 설계에서는 하나의 무리효율을 이용하여 개별말뚝의 지지력으로부터 전체 무리말뚝의 지지력을 산정하고 있다. 그러나, 무리말뚝의 지지 거동은 말뚝 시공 방법, 말뚝지반말뚝 상호작용, 캡-지반말뚝 상호작용 등의 복합적인 영향을 받으며, 따라서 하나의 무리효율만으로 이렇게 다양한 영향 요소들을 합리적으로 고려하는 것은 불가능하다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 효율을 도입하여, 이들 영향 요소들을 분리하여 고려할 수 있는 무리말뚝 설계 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 이 외에도 말뚝의 하중 전이 특성과 위치에 따른 말뚝 거동의 차이를 고려할 수 있으며, 침하 기준을 이용한 효율의 산정을 통해 침하 관점의 설계가 이루어질 수 있다. 기존의 모형실험 결과로부터 제안된 설계 방법에 적용할 수 있는 효율을 산정하여 제시하였으며, 이를 이용하여 또 다른 모형 실험의 지지력을 산정하고 시험결과와 비교함으로써 제안된 방법의 유효성을 평가하였다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.65-74
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 말뚝이 근입된 연약지반의 탄소성 해석을 수행하여 말뚝에 작용하는 하향력을 산정하였다. 이때 단독말뚝과 군말뚝(3$\times$3, 5$\times$5)을 대상으로 각각 2차원과 3차원 유한요소해석을, 말뚝주면에서 slip의 유무에 따라 수행하여 그 영향정도를 파악하였다. 하향력의 발생정도는 말뚝주면에서의 마찰계수, 지표면과 말뚝두부에 작용하는 상재하중에 큰 영향을 받는다. 이와 같은 영향인자를 토대로 수치해석 결과, 하향력은 no-slip의 경우가 slip의 경우에 비해서 상당히 과대하게 산정되었으며, 또한 말뚝두부에 하중이 증가함에 따라 하향력은 감소하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 한편 그룹효과가 있는 군말뚝의 하향력은 단독말뚝의 하향력에 비해서 크게 감소 하는 것으로 나타났으며, 수치 및 사례분석을 통해 slip 해석의 적절함을 확인하였다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 1999년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.447-454
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• 1999

The compressive capacity and the soil plugging resistance of single open-ended pipe pile were completely decreased in the previous study on the behavior of shorter single pile during simulated seaquake induced by the vertical component of earthquake. But the capacity of single open-ended pipe pile with greater penetration and the capacity of piles group with shorter penetration were expected to be stable after seaquake motion. In this study, first, 2-piles or 4-piles are driven into the calibration chamber included in saturated fine medium sand with several simulated penetrations, and the compressive load test for each piles group was performed. Then, about 95 % compressive load of the ultimate capacity was applied on the pile head during the simulated seaquake motion. Finally, In confirm the reduction of pile capacity during the simulated seaquake motion, the compressive load test for each single pile or piles group after seaquake motion was performed. During the simulated seaquake, the compressive capacity of open-ended pipe piles with greater penetration ( 〉about 27 m) was not degraded even in deep sea deeper than 220 m and soil plug within open-ended pipe pile installed in deep sea was stable after seaquake motion. Also, in the case of 2-piles or 4-pile groups, the compressive capacity after seaquake motion was not degraded at all regardless of pile penetration depth beneath seabed, sea water depth and seaquake frequency.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.333-343
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• 2020

Preventing or reducing the damage impact of lateral soil movements on piled foundations is highly dependent on understanding the behavior of passive piles. For this reason, a detailed experimental study is carried out, aimed to examine the influence of soil density, the depth of moving layer and pile spacing on the behavior of a 2×2 free-standing pile group subjected to a uniform profile of lateral soil movement. Results from 8 model tests comprise bending moment, shear force, soil reaction and deformations measured along the pile shaft using strain gauges and others probing tools were performed. It is found that soil density and the depth of moving layer have an opposite impact regarding the ultimate response of piles. A pile group embedded in dense sand requires less soil displacement to reach the ultimate soil reaction compared to those embedded in medium and loose sands. On the other hand, the larger the moving depth, the larger amount of lateral soil movement needs to develop the pile group its ultimate deformations. Furthermore, the group factor and the effect of pile spacing were highly related to the soil-structure interaction resulted from the transferring process of forces between pile rows with the existing of the rigid pile cap.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.553-570
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• 2016

A series of three-dimensional (3D) parametric finite element analyses have been performed to study the influence of the relative locations of pile tips with regards to the tunnel position on the behaviour of single piles and pile groups to adjacent tunnelling in weathered soil. When the pile tips are inside the influence zone, which considers the relative pile tip location with respect to the tunnel position, tunnelling-induced pile head settlements are larger than those computed from the Greenfield condition. However, when the pile tips are outside the influence zone, a reverse trend is obtained. When the pile tips are inside the influence zone, the tunnelling-induced tensile pile forces mobilised, but when the pile tips are outside the influence zone, compressive pile forces are induced because of tunnelling, depending on the shear stress transfer mechanism at the pile-soil interface. For piles connected to a cap, tensile and compressive forces are mobilised at the top of the centre and side piles, respectively. It has been shown that the increases in the tunnelling-induced pile head settlements have resulted in reductions of the apparent factor of safety up to approximately 43% when the pile tips are inside the influence zone, therefore severely affecting the serviceability of the piles. The pile behaviour, when considering the location of the pile tips with regards to the tunnel, has been analysed in great detail by taking the tunnelling-induced pile head settlements, axial pile forces, apparent factor of safety of the piles and shear transfer mechanism into account.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 풍화토 지반에 설치된 수평하중을 받는 H-pile 무리말뚝의 하중분담특성 및 상호작용계수(p-multiplier)를 분석하였다. 말뚝의 배열($2{\times}3$, $3{\times}3$), 말뚝의 간격(2D, 4D, 6D), 그리고 지반밀도(상대밀도:40%, 80%)를 고려한 수평재하 실험을 실시한 결과 다음과 같은 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 무리말뚝내 각각의 말뚝에 작용된 평균수평하중은 말뚝의 수가 감소할수록 평균수평저항력이 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 말뚝간격과 지반밀도에 따라 단말뚝과 무리말뚝의 p-y곡선을 분석한 결과 말뚝간격이 2D에서 6D로 증가함에 따라 무리말뚝의 상호작용계수값이 느슨한 지반의 경우 0.85~0.94(앞열말뚝), 0.57~0.79(중간말뚝), 0.60~0.71(후열말뚝), 조밀한 지반의 경우 0.76~0.82(앞열말뚝), 0.58~0.73(중간말뚝), 0.53~0.70(후열말뚝)의 값을 각각 나타냈다. 이와같이 단말뚝과 무리말뚝간 상호작용계수는 말뚝간격이 증가할수록 그 값이 증가함을 알 수 있었으며, 또한 앞열의 무리말뚝이 중간 및 후열말뚝들보다 보다 큰 상호작용계수 값을 나타냈다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.69-73
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 수평력을 받는 캡과 연결된 무리말뚝의 거동을 파악하고 상호작용계수(p-multiplier)를 산정하기 위하여 $1{\times}3$ 말뚝에 대하여 말뚝간격(s)을 3D, 4D, 5D로 변화시키면서 3차원 수치해석을 수행하였다. 이때 모델링은 해석시간을 줄이기 위하여 대칭경계조건을 사용하였고 콘크리트 말뚝은 탄성모델을 적용하였으며 흙의 경우는 Druker-Prager 모델을 이용하였다. 화강풍화토에서 수평력을 받는 무리말뚝의 수치해석결과를 이용하여 말뚝간격에 따른 수평저항력을 외말뚝의 해석결과와 비교 분석하여 p-y 곡선을 구하였고, 이를 이용하여 수평력을 받는 무리말뚝의 각 열에 대해 상호작용계수를 산정하였다. 그 결과 말뚝간격이 증가함에 따라 상호작용계수 값도 증가하였으나 그림자효과에 의해 1.0보다 작은 값으로 나타났다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 초청강연 및 논문집
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• pp.343-358
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• 2008

Piles of a bridge pier are connected with a column through a pile cap(footing). Behavior of the pile foundation can be different according to the connection method between piles and the pile cap. This difference causes a change of the design method. Connection methods between pile heads and the pile cap are divided into two groups ; rigid connections and hinge connections. KHBDC(Korea Highway Bridge Design Code) has specified to use rigid connection method for the highway bridge. In the rigid connection method, maximum bending moment of a pile occurs at the pile head and this helps the pile to prevent the excessive displacement. Rigid methods are also good to improve the seismic performance. However some specifications prescribe that conservative results through investigations for both the fixed-head condition and the free-head condition should be reflected in the design. This statement may induce an over-estimated design for the bridge which have very good quality structures with casing covered drilled shafts and the PC-house contained pile cap. Because the assumption of free-head conditions (hinge connections) are unreal for the elevated pile cap system with multiple piles of the long span sea-crossing bridges. On the other hand, elastic displacement method to evaluate the pile reactions under the pile cap is not suitable for this type of bridges due to impractical assumptions. So, full modeling techniques which analyze the superstructure and the substructure simultaneously should be performed. Loads and stress state of the very large diameter drilled shaft and the pile cap for Incheon Bridge which will the longest bridge in Korea were investigated through the full modeling for rigid connection conditions.