Effects of Air Intrusion Technique on Permeability of Liquefiable Soil

Author(s):  
Punit Bhanwar ◽  
Shivam Thakur ◽  
Trudeep N. Dave
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Author(s):  
Gopal S. P. Madabhushi ◽  
Samy Garcia-Torres

AbstractSoil liquefaction can cause excessive damage to structures as witnessed in many recent earthquakes. The damage to small/medium-sized buildings can lead to excessive death toll and economic losses due to the sheer number of such buildings. Economic and sustainable methods to mitigate liquefaction damage to such buildings are therefore required. In this paper, the use of rubble brick as a material to construct earthquake drains is proposed. The efficacy of these drains to mitigate liquefaction effects was investigated, for the first time to include the effects of the foundations of a structure by using dynamic centrifuge testing. It will be shown that performance of the foundation in terms of its settlement was improved by the rubble brick drains by directly comparing them to the foundation on unimproved, liquefiable ground. The dynamic response in terms of horizontal accelerations and rotations will be compared. The dynamic centrifuge tests also yielded valuable information with regard to the excess pore pressure variation below the foundations both spatially and temporally. Differences of excess pore pressures between the improved and unimproved ground will be compared. Finally, a simplified 3D finite element analysis will be introduced that will be shown to satisfactorily capture the settlement characteristics of the foundation located on liquefiable soil with earthquake drains.


2013 ◽  
Vol 479-480 ◽  
pp. 1139-1143
Author(s):  
Wen Yi Hung ◽  
Chung Jung Lee ◽  
Wen Ya Chung ◽  
Chen Hui Tsai ◽  
Ting Chen ◽  
...  

Dramatic failure of pile foundations caused by the soil liquefaction was founded leading to many studies for investigating the seismic behavior of pile. The failures were often accompanied with settlement, lateral displacement and tilting of superstructures. Therefore soil-structure interaction effects must be properly considered in the pile design. Two tests by using the centrifuge shaking table were conducted at an acceleration field of 80 g to investigate the seismic response of piles attached with different tip mass and embedded in liquefied or non-liquefied deposits during shaking. It was found that the maximum bending moment of pile occurs at the depth of 4 m and 5 m for dry sand and saturated sand models, respectively. The more tip mass leads to the more lateral displacement of pile head and the more residual bending moment.


2012 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 74-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadi Shahir ◽  
Ali Pak ◽  
Mahdi Taiebat ◽  
Boris Jeremić

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 64-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.K. Karamitros ◽  
G.D. Bouckovalas ◽  
Y.K. Chaloulos

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengfei Dou ◽  
Chengshun Xu ◽  
Xiuli Du ◽  
Su Chen

Abstract In previous major earthquakes, the damage and collapse of structures located in liquefied field which caused by site failure a common occurrence, and the problem of evaluation and disscusion on site liquefaction and the seismic stability is still a key topic in geotechnical earthquake engineering. To study the influence of the presence of structure on the seismic stability of liquefiable sites, a series of shaking table tests on liquefiable free field and non-free field with the same soil sample was carried out. It can be summarized from experimental results as following. The natural frequency of non-free field is larger and the damping ratio is smaller than that of free field. For the weak seismic loading condition, the dynamic response of sites show similar rules and trend. For the strong ground motion condition, soils in both experiments all liquefied obviously and the depth of liquefaction soil in the free field is significantly greater than that in the non-free field, besides, porewater pressure in the non-free field accumulated relately slow and the dissapited quikly from analysis of porewater pressure ratios(PPRs) in both experiments. The amplitudes of lateral displacements and acceleration of soil in the non-free field is obviously smaller than that in the free field caused by the effect of presence of the structure. In a word, the presence of structures will lead to the increase of site stiffness, site more difficult to liquefy, and the seismic stability of the non-free site is higher than that of the free site due to soil-structure interaction.


2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-fan Xia ◽  
Guan-lin Ye ◽  
Jian-hua Wang ◽  
Bin Ye ◽  
Feng Zhang

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