• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.379-390
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• 2020

The behavior of a piled raft system in multi-layered soil subjected to vertical loading has been studied numerically using 3D finite element analysis. Initially, the 3D finite element model has been validated by analytically simulating the field experiments conducted on vertically loaded instrumented piled raft. Subsequently, a comprehensive parametric study has been conducted to assess the performance of a combined piled raft system in terms of optimum pile spacing and settlement of raft and piles, in multi-layered soil stratum subjected to vertical loading. It has been found that a combined pile raft system can significantly reduce the total settlement as well as the differential settlement of the raft in comparison to the raft alone. Two different arrangements below the piled raft with the same pile numbers show a significant amount of increase of load transfer of piled raft system, which is in line with the load transfer mechanism of a piled raft. A methodology for the factor of safety assessment of a combined pile raft foundation has been presented to improve the performance of piled raft based on its serviceability requirements. The findings of this study could be used as guidelines for achieving economical design for combined piled raft systems.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.545-561
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• 2024

Piled raft foundation has become widely used in the recent years because it can increase bearing capacity of foundation with control settlement. The design for a piled raft in terms vertical load and lateral load need to understands contribution load behavior to raft and pile in piled raft foundation system. The load-bearing behavior of the piled raft, especially concerning lateral loads, is highly complex and challenge to analyze. The complex mechanism of piled rafts can be clarified by using three dimensional (3-D) Finite Element Method (FEM). Therefore, this paper focuses on free-standing head pile group, on-ground piled raft, and embedded raft for the piled raft foundation systems. The lateral resistant of piled raft foundation was investigated in terms of relationship between vertical load, lateral load and displacement, as well as the lateral load sharing of the raft. The results show that both vertical load and raft position significantly impact the lateral load capacity of the piled raft, especially when the vertical load increases and the raft embeds into the soil. On the same condition of vertical settlement and lateral displacement, piled raft experiences a substantial demonstrates a higher capacity for lateral load sharing compared to the on-ground raft. Ultimately, regarding design considerations, the piled raft can reliably support lateral loads while exhibiting behavior within the elastic range, in which it is safe to use.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2009년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.376-387
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• 2009

Piled raft foundation is a geotechnical composite construction to support the superstructure by pile-soil-raft interaction. General conventional design for piled raft doesn't consider the contribution of a raft. This is very conservative and requires more piles to satisfy the factor of safety. It is important to evaluate the load sharing features of piled raft. In this research, this characteristics of piled raft evaluated using both centrifuge and numerical modelings. The ultimate bearing capacity of piled raft foundation was also evaluated and predicted through comparisons of ultimate bearing capacity of single pile (SP), unpiled raft (UR), freestanding pile group (FPG) and piled raft (PR). $\xi_{pr}$ and $\eta$ were determined by centrifuge model tests to simply evaluate the ultimate bearing capacity of piled raft and bearing capacity of piled raft was predicted using the calibrated numerical model based on the centrifuge tests and laboratory tests data.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2000

본 연구에서는, 유전자 알고리즘을 이용한 piled raft 기초의 최적설계 기법을 제시하였다. 최적설계에 사용한 목적함수는 구조물의 사용한계에 해당하는 부등침하량과 piled raft 기초의 시고비용 차원에서의 말뚝과 raft의 총 중량으로 하였다. 유전자 알고리즘은 다읜의 적자생존의 법칙을 따르는 자연진화 법칙을 바탕으로 한 최적화 기법이다. 본 연구에서는 piled raft 기초의 해석방법으로 Clancy(1993)가 제시한 "hybrid" 해석방법을 사용하였으며, 유전자 알고리즘기법은 Goldberg(1989)가 제시한 단순 유전자 알고리즘(SGA)을 적용하였다. 또한 유전자 알고리즘을 이용한 최적설계기법의 유효성을 평가하기 위해 설계예제 및 매개변수변화연구를 통해 piled raft 기초시스템의 중요 설계인자들에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 매개변수변화연구로부터 말뚝의 길이와 raft의 두께가 증가할수록 piled raft 기초시스템의 전체 중량은 일정한 값에 점차적으로 수렴하였으며, 지반의 강정, raft의 두께 말뚝의 길이 및 강성이 증가할수록 말뚝의 최적위치는 raft의 중앙에 집중되는 경향으로 나타났다.경향으로 나타났다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.63-75
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• 2007

Piled raft 기초는 연약지반상에서 과도한 침하와 raft 및 말뚝의 지지력 산정 문제 등으로 적합한 기초는 아닌 것으로 알려져 왔으나 최근 국내외에서 연약지반내 구조물 시공이 증대되면서 연약지반상 piled raft 기초에 대한 관심이 커지고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 연약지반에 시공된 piled raft기초의 거동을 분석하였으며 이를 위해 ABAQUS를 이용한 3차원 유한요소 해석을 실시하였다. 해석 시 하중은 등분포하중과 집중하중을 각각 적용하였으며 동일한 조건의 군말뚝과 piled raft 기초 및 다양한 말뚝 배치를 갖는 piled raft 기초를 대상으로 수행하였다. 본 연구결과, 하중형태, 다양한 말뚝 배치 및 근입 깊이에 대한 각각의 침하 및 하중분담특성을 비교, 분석하였으며 이를 통해 연약지반상의 piled raft 기초의 특성을 파악하였다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.853-861
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 수치해석을 이용한 piled raft 기초의 복합적인 거동평가를 위해 축대칭 조건 및 경계면 요소를 적용한 유한차분해석 모델링 방법이 합리적인지 검증하였다. 이를 위해 실내모형실험 결과와 수치해석 결과를 비교 분석하여 piled raft 기초의 모델링 방법의 적합성을 평가하였다. 그리고 실제 현장조건을 고려한 기초 매개변수에 대한 민감도분석을 수행하여 raft의 하중분담율을 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 실내모형실험과 수치해석 결과에서 지지력-수직변위의 상관관계가 동일한 경향을 보였으며, piled raft 기초의 극한지지력과 raft의 하중분담율이 비교적 유사하게 산정되었다. 그리고 민감도분석을 통해 raft의 하중분담율은 약 33%~52% 사이에서 산정되어, 기존 연구 결과와 유사함을 확인하였다. 따라서 piled raft 기초는 축대칭 조건 및 경계면 요소를 이용하여 효과적으로 모델링될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.289-302
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• 2013

The piled raft is a geotechnical construction, consisting of the three elements-piles, raft and the soil, that is applied for the foundation of a tall buildings in an increasing number. The piled rafts nowadays are preferred as the foundation to reduce the overall and differential settlements; and also, provides an economical foundation option for circumstances where the performance of the raft alone does not satisfy the design requirements. The finite element analysis of the piled raft foundation is presented in this paper. The numerical procedure is programmed into finite element based software SAFE in order to conduct the parametric study wherein soil modulus and raft thickness is varied for constant pile diameter. The problems of piled raft for three different load patterns as considered in the available literature (Sawant et al. 2012) are analyzed here using SAFE. The results obtained for load pattern-I using SAFE are compared with those obtained by Sawant et al. (2012). The fair agreement is observed in the results which demonstrate the accuracy of the procedure employed in the present investigation. Further, substantial reduction in maximum deflections and moments are found in piled raft as compared to that in raft. The reduction in deflections is observed with increase in raft thickness and soil modulus. The decrease in maximum moments with increase in soil modulus is seen in raft whereas increase in maximum moments is seen in piled raft. The raft thickness and soil modulus affects the response of the type of the foundation considered in the present investigation.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.169-185
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• 2022

The urbanization and increasing rate of population demands effective means of transportation system (basement and tunnels) as well as high-rise building (resting on piled foundation) for accommodation. Therefore, it unavoidable to construct basements (i.e., excavation) nearby piled foundation. Since the basement excavation inevitably induces soil movement and stress changes in the ground, it may cause differential settlements to nearby piled raft foundation. To understand settlement and load transfer mechanism in the piled raft due to excavation-induced stress release, numerical parametric studies are carried out in this study. The effects of excavation depths (i.e., formation level) relative to piled raft were investigated by simulating the excavation near the pile shaft (i.e., H_e/L_p=0.67), next to (H_e/L_p=1.00) and below the pile toe (H_e/L_p=1.33). In addition, effects of sand density and raft fixity condition were investigated. The computed results have revealed that the induced settlement, tilting, pile lateral movement and load transfer mechanism in the piled raft depends upon the embedded depth of the diaphragm wall. Additional settlement of the piled raft due to excavation can be account for apparent loss of load carrying capacity of the piled raft (ALPC). The highest apparent loss of piled raft capacity ALPC (on the account of induced piled raft settlement) of 50% was calculated in in case of H_e/L_p = 1.33. Furthermore, the induced settlement decreased with increasing the relative density from 30% to 90%. On the contrary, the tilting of the raft increases in denser ground. The larger bending moment and lateral force was induced at the piled heads in fixed and pinned raft condition.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2002년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.597-604
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• 2002

The piled raft foundation Is an innovative design concept to reduce both the maximum settlement and differential settlements caused by concentrated building loads and load eccentricities, and also to reduce the bending moments of the raft. The main concern given in the design of piled raft foundations is proper judgments both of relative proportions of loads carried by the raft and piles, and of the effect of the pile support on the maximum and differential settlements In the present study, the piled raft foundation used in the foundation system of Richensia Building at Youido, Seoul is introduced and is carried out analyzing the results of field tests such as plate load tests, large plate load test, pile load test, and piled raft load test.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.35-46
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 지반조건에 따른 실제 piled raft 기초의 거동을 실규모 시험을 통해 분석하기가 어려운 점을 감안하여 수치해석을 이용한 민감도분석을 수행하고자 하였다. 수치해석에 사용한 프로그램은 유한차분법 기반의 FLAC 3D이다. 말뚝의 수치해석 모델링은 FLAC의 구조요소 중 하나인 말뚝요소를 사용하여 모델링하였고, 지반과 래프트는 연속체 요소를 이용하여 모사하였다. 말뚝의 배열은 $3{\times}3$으로 고정하고 말뚝직경, 말뚝길이, 말뚝간격 그리고 지반조건을 민감도 매개변수로 선정하고 상관관계를 규명하였다. 그 결과, 말뚝직경이 크고 말뚝의 길이가 길수록, 그리고 말뚝의 간격이 넓을수록 piled raft 기초의 전체 지지력은 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 지반조건에 따라 말뚝간격이 일정 간격 이상이 될 경우, piled raft 기초의 거동이 래프트만으로 지지되는 얕은기초와 유사한 거동을 보였다. 또한 지반조건이 좋아질수록, piled raft 기초의 전체 지지력은 증가함을 확인할 수 있었다.