• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.481-491
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• 2020

Piles installed in row(s) are used as an effective technique to improve the stability of soil slopes. The analysis of pile-stabilized slopes require a reliable prediction of lateral resistance offered by the piles. In this work, an analytical solution is developed to estimate the lateral resistance offered by the stabilizing piles in sand and c - 𝜙 soil slopes considering soil arching phenomenon. The soil arching in both horizontal direction (between the neighboring piles) and vertical direction (in the active wedge in front of the pile row) are studied and their effects are incorporated in the proposed model. The shape of soil arch is assumed to be circular and principal stress trajectories are defined separately for both modes of arching. Experimental and numerical studies found in literature were used to validate the proposed method. A detailed parametric analysis was performed to study the influence of pile diameter, center-to-center spacing, slope angle and angle of internal friction on the lateral pile resistance.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.523-540
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• 2023

The failure of slope can cause remarkable damage to either human life or infrastructures. Stabilizing piles are widely utilized to reinforce slope as a slip-resistance structure. The workability of pile-stabilized slopes is affected by various parameters. In this study, the performance of earth slope reinforced with piles and the behavior of piles under static load, by shear reduction strength method using the finite difference software (FLAC^3D) has been investigated. Parametric studies were conducted to investigate the role of pile length (L), different pile distances from each other (S/D), pile head conditions (free and fixed head condition), the effect of sand density (loose, medium, and high-density soil) on the pile behavior, and the performance of pile-stabilized slopes. The performance of the stabilized slopes was analyzed by evaluating the factor of safety, lateral displacement and bending moment of piles, and critical slip mechanism. The results depict that as L increased and S/D reduced, the performance of slopes stabilized with pile gets better by raising the soil density. The greater the amount of bending moment at the shallow depths of the pile in the fixed pile head indicates the effect of the inertial force due to the structure on the pile performance.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.639-652
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• 2023

Stepped earth slopes incorporated with anti-slide piles are widely utilized in landslide disaster preventions. Explicit consideration of the three-dimensional (3D) effect in the slope design warrants producing more realistic solutions. A 3D limit analysis of the stability of pile stabilized stepped slopes is performed in light of the kinematic limit analysis theorem. The influences of seismic excitation and surcharge load are both considered from a kinematic perspective. The upper bound solution to the factor of safety is optimized and compared with published solutions, demonstrating the capability and applicability of the proposed method. Comparative studies are performed with respect to the roles of 3D effect, pile location, pile spacing, seismic and surcharge loads in the safety assessments of stepped slopes. The results demonstrate that the stability of pile reinforced stepped slopes differ with that of single stage slopes dramatically. The optimum pile location lies in the upper portion of the slope around L_x/L = 0.9, but may also lies in the shoulder of the bench. The pile reinforcement reaches 10% universally for a looser pile spacing D_c/d_p = 5.0, and approaches 70% when the pile spacing reaches D_c/d_p = 2.0.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.157-170
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 억지말뚝을 이용한 점성토지반 절토사면에 대한 새로운 설계법이 제안된다. 이 설계법에서는 사면의 기울기와 높이, 억지말뚝열의 수와 설치위치, 말뚝의 간격과 강성 등의 요소를 체계적으로 선택할 수 있게 되어 있다. 이 설계법은 줄말뚝을 포함한 사면의 안정해석법에 근거하여 확립될 수 있다 말뚝으로 사면을 안정시킬 수 있는 기본적인 개념은 줄말뚝이 산사태와 같은 측방변형지반속에 설치되어 있을 경우 말뚝사이의 지반이 지반아칭현상에 의하여 억지 될 수 있다는데 있다. 줄말뚝을 포함한 사면의 전체안정을 검토하기 위하여 말뚝안정해석과 사면안정해석이 동시에 실시되어야 한다. 제안된 설계법에 따라 설계된 점성토지반 절토사면에 계측기를 설치하여 말뚝 및 말뚝사이 지반의 거동을 면밀히 관찰하였다. 이를 통하여 점성토지반 절토사면에 설치된 억지말뚝의 사면안정효과를 확인할 수 있었다.