Determining the bearing capacity of driven piles with allowance for the porosity, moisture content, and consistency of clayey soil

1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 535-537
Author(s):  
Yu. N. Kozakov ◽  
G. V. Vashko
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2315
Author(s):  
Myoung-Soo Won ◽  
Christine P. Langcuyan ◽  
Yu-Cong Gao

The Saemangeum seawall, located on the western coast of Korea, is 33.8 km long and is known as the longest embankment in the world. The Saemangeum project is underway for road, railway, and port constructions for internal development. In the Saemangeum area, suitable granular soil for embankment material is difficult to obtain. However, silty clay is widely distributed. In this study, a series of model-bearing capacity tests were conducted as a basic study for using clayey soils as embankment materials. The model bearing capacity tests were carried out using a standard metal mold and a customized metal box. The test results showed that clayey soil, with normal moisture content (NMC), exhibited a large deformation and low bearing capacity. However, when the clay was well-compacted, with optimum moisture content (OMC), it exhibited a higher bearing capacity than dense sand. In addition, when crushed gravel and composite geotextiles were placed in the clayey soil with NMC, the bearing capacity was higher than that of dense sand. From the viewpoint of the bearing capacity, it is considered that clayey soil can be used as an embankment material when clay, crushed gravel, and composite geotextiles are properly combined.


Author(s):  
Hannah Nyambara Ngugi ◽  
Stanley Shitote ◽  
Nathaniel Ambassah ◽  
Victoria Okumu ◽  
John Thuo

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Muhammet Vefa Akpinar ◽  
Erhan Burak Pancar ◽  
Eren Şengül ◽  
Hakan Aslan

In this study effectiveness of lime stabilization and geocell reinforcement techniques of roads was investigated for low bearing capacity subgrades. For this purpose, a large-scale plate load test was designed and used. Clayey soil with high moisture content was reinforced with different percentages of hydrated lime (5%, 10%, 15% dry weight of the soil). The deflection and stress results indicated that lime stabilization or geocell reinforcement alone did not significantly increase subgrade reaction coefficient and bearing capacity values. Promising results were obtained on stabilization of weak subgrade when both techniques were used together. It was determined that cellular reinforcement increased the reaction modulus coefficient value and bearing capacity of the subgrade soil by more than 15% compared to the lime stabilization.


2014 ◽  
Vol 633-634 ◽  
pp. 922-926
Author(s):  
Li Hua Zhang ◽  
Li Yu ◽  
Zhe Jun Quan

This essay analyzes stress between pile and soil, occupying moisture content data of unsaturated soil in Nanchang with ANSYS. In accordance with engineering practice, it adopts three-dimensional solid model, the same geometric size with engineering practice. It simulates interrelation between pile and soil with contact unit, and shows ontology relation of soil with D-P elastic-plastic model. Convergence has been made with selection and calculation of parameter. The greater the moisture content gets, the smaller the pile body vertical displacement makes. In other words, the smaller the relative displacement between pile and soil gets, the lower the lateral extrusion stress from pile to soil becomes. Keywords: unsaturated soil; shear strength; pile bearing capacity; finite element analysis; moisture content


2016 ◽  
Vol 845 ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Yusep Muslih Purwana ◽  
Niken Silmi Surjandari ◽  
Haryanto Wahyu

Jack-in piling is environmental friendly system enabling placement of the pile into soil layer with minimum disturbance. It works with very low noise, low vibration, allows piling in confined area, relatively very fast in term of installation rate, better quality control and very fast in mobility. The main issue regarding the pile is bearing capacity; the ability of the pile to withstand axial load without failure. This study attempts to find the correlation between jack-in force and ultimate pile bearing capacity. The result of 5 piling record on clayey layer soil indicates that there is a good correlation between jack-in force and empirical ultimate pile bearing capacity.


Expansive soil is a problematic soil which found in wide part of the world that has a high degree of sensitivity, nature of expansion and shrink behavior during water adding and removing this caused insufficient bearing capacity, excessive differential settlement and instability on excavation and embankment forming those conditions accelerate damage of building structure, road highway and dam. Attempt to undertake construction in such type of soil result will be bearing capacity failure, settlement problem. One of the well-known application of Lime and fly ash were improve Atterberg limits, compaction characteristics, bearing capacity and prevention of swelling problem of expansive clay that is why the main reason to select lime and fly ash in this project, both are good binding material to increase the cohesion force and shear strength of soil and assured to established rigid pavements and foundations. The mixing proportion of lime, fly ash and combination of lime and fly ash are (0%, 2 %, 4 % ), (10%, 15% ,20% ), (2 %+10 %, 2 % +15 %, 2 % +20 %) and (4 %+10 %, 4 % + 15 % , 4 %+ 20 %) with expansive soil respectively and then explored how much it modify the characteristics of soil like maximum dry density moisture content, consistency limits, FSI, UCS and CBR value which compare to untreated soil. Lime and fly ash treated soil carried out various tests Such as Moisture content test, consistency limit, compaction test, Unconfined Compression swelling index test and California bearing ratio test then after justify weather the bearing capacity of soil is good or not . Classification of soil was determined by conducting plasticity index and swelling index tests. Effect of lime and fly ash on soil index properties were assessed by conducting Atterberg limits test, strength of soil were assessed by conducting compaction test, UCS tests and CBR test and swelling properties were checked by conducting swelling index test. Expansive clay soil were mixed with lime, fly ash and combination of lime - fly ash by replacement process of soil and then cured for 7, 14 and 28 days.


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