Excavation slope stability related to pore-water pressure variations during piling

1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. A. Crooks ◽  
E. L. Matyas ◽  
H. M. McKay
Keyword(s):  
Pore Water ◽  
Factor Of Safety ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Pore Water Pressures ◽  
Potential Failure ◽  
Batter Piles ◽  
Silt Layer ◽  
Excess Pore

High excess pore-water pressures were measured within a confined stratum of loose silt underlying an excavation slope during pile-driving operations at the slope toe.The range of observed pore-water pressure increase with distance is generally in excess of previously published data. This is attributed to a combination of factors including superposition of increments of excess pore-water pressures generated during driving of individual piles within a group, redistribution of excess pore-water pressures with time, the effect of soil displacement in a confined loose silt layer, and the greater disturbance associated with driving batter piles as opposed to vertical piles. A further contributing factor was considered to be the increase in pore-water pressures due to small straining within the silt layer.Because of uncertainty regarding the accuracy of pore-water pressure predictions and the presence of deformation-sensitive services at the slope crest, the observational approach was adopted during construction.Based on the results of stability analyses using observed pore-water pressures in the field, the construction procedures were modified to maintain an adequate factor of safety and to minimize slope deformation. It was recognized that the method of analysis may have been conservative because changes in total stresses along potential failure surfaces were not taken into account.

scholarly journals Experiment Study of Lateral Unloading Stress Path and Excess Pore Water Pressure on Creep Behavior of Soft Soil

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Huang ◽  
Kejun Wen ◽  
Dongsheng Li ◽  
Xiaojia Deng ◽  
Lin Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pore Water ◽  
Creep Behavior ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Soft Soil ◽  
Stress Path ◽  
Deviatoric Stress ◽  
Excess Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Pore Water Pressures ◽  
Excess Pore

The unloading creep behavior of soft soil under lateral unloading stress path and excess pore water pressure is the core problem of time-dependent analysis of surrounding rock deformation under excavation of soft soil. The soft soil in Shenzhen, China, was selected in this study. The triaxial unloading creep tests of soft soil under different initial excess pore water pressures (0, 20, 40, and 60 kPa) were conducted with the K0 consolidation and lateral unloading stress paths. The results show that the unloading creep of soft soil was divided into three stages: attenuation creep, constant velocity creep, and accelerated creep. The duration of creep failure is approximately 5 to 30 mins. The unloading creep behavior of soft soil is significantly affected by the deviatoric stress and time. The nonlinearity of unloading creep of soft soil is gradually enhanced with the increase of the deviatoric stress and time. The initial excess pore water pressure has an obvious weakening effect on the unloading creep of soft soil. Under the same deviatoric stress, the unloading creep of soft soil is more significant with the increase of initial excess pore water pressure. Under undrained conditions, the excess pore water pressure generally decreases during the lateral unloading process and drops sharply at the moment of unloading creep damage. The pore water pressure coefficients during the unloading process were 0.73–1.16, 0.26–1.08, and 0.35–0.96, respectively, corresponding to the initial excess pore water pressures of 20, 40, and 60 kPa.

scholarly journals On the effects of pore water pressure buildup and dissipation on the seismic performance of a propped r.c. diaphragm wall in sand

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateryna Oliynyk ◽  
Nicola Pontani ◽  
Claudio Tamagnini
Keyword(s):  
Pore Water ◽  
Seismic Performance ◽  
Dynamic Equilibrium ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Consolidation Process ◽  
Pore Water Pressures ◽  
Dynamic Consolidation ◽  
Fully Coupled ◽  
Excess Pore

AbstractThe study concerns the analysis of a retaining structure composed by a couple of r.c. diaphragm walls propped at the crest in loose and medium-dense, variably saturated sand under seismic conditions. Fully coupled dynamic equilibrium conditions and pore water flow in the porous soil have been taken into account, in order to assess the effects that the development and subsequent dissipation of excess pore water pressures can have on the performance of such structures under seismic conditions. To this end, a series of simulations in which the saturated soil permeability is varied of about two orders of magnitude has been carried out, in order to consider different evolution rates for the dynamic consolidation process. The von Wolffersdorff hypoplastic model and the van Genuchten water retention equation have been used to describe the mechanical and hydraulic behavior of the sand. The results obtained in a large series of finite element simulations show a significant dependence of the seismic performance of the structure evaluated in terms of permanent rotations and structural loads, in view of the modern performance-based design criteria on the excess pore pressures buildup during the seismic shaking and on its dissipation with time. For the particular seismic input considered, neither fully drained nor fully undrained conditions can be considered applicable in most of the cases considered. In such conditions, the quantitative assessment of wall and soil displacements, pore water pressures and effective stress distributions within the soil requires necessarily the solution of a fully coupled, nonlinear dynamic consolidation problem.

Stress–strain pattern–based criterion to assess cyclic shear resistance of soil from laboratory element tests

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (9) ◽  
pp. 1460-1473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dharma Wijewickreme ◽  
Achala Soysa
Keyword(s):  
Pore Water ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Shear Stiffness ◽  
Large Strains ◽  
Fundamental Parameter ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Cyclic Shear ◽  
Excess Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Excess Pore

The cyclic shear response of soils is commonly examined using undrained (or constant-volume) laboratory element tests conducted using triaxial and direct simple shear (DSS) devices. The cyclic resistance ratio (CRR) from these tests is expressed in terms of the number of cycles of loading to reach unacceptable performance that is defined in terms of the attainment of a certain excess pore-water pressure and (or) strain level. While strain accumulation is generally commensurate with excess pore-water pressure, the definition of unacceptable performance in laboratory tests based purely on cyclic strain criteria is not robust. The shear stiffness is a more fundamental parameter in describing engineering performance than the excess pore-water pressure alone or shear strain alone; so far, no criterion has considered shear stiffness to determine CRR. Data from cyclic DSS tests indicate consistent differences inherent in the patterns between the stress–strain loops at initial and later stages of cyclic loading; instead of relatively “smooth” stress–strain loops in the initial parts of loading, nonsmooth changes in incremental stiffness showing “kinks” are notable in the stress–strain loops at large strains. The point of pattern change in a stress–strain loop provides a meaningful basis to determine the CRR (based on unacceptable performance) in cyclic shear tests.

Consolidation Theory for Composite Ground with Granular Columns Based on Different Calculation Models

2011 ◽  
Vol 261-263 ◽  
pp. 1534-1538
Author(s):  
Yu Guo Zhang ◽  
Ya Dong Bian ◽  
Kang He Xie
Keyword(s):  
Pore Water ◽  
Analytical Solutions ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Vertical Flow ◽  
Excess Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Consolidation Theory ◽  
Composite Ground ◽  
Granular Column ◽  
Excess Pore

The consolidation of the composite ground under non-uniformly distributed initial excess pore water pressure along depth was studied in two models which respectively considering both the radial and vertical flows in granular column and the vertical flow only in granular column, and the corresponding analytical solutions of the two models were presented and compared with each other. It shows that the distribution of initial excess pore water pressure has obvious influence on the consolidation of the composite ground with single drainage boundary, and the rate of consolidation considering the radial-vertical flow in granular column is faster than that considering the vertical flow only in granular column.

The Test Study to the Changes of Excess Pore Water Pressure during Precast Pile Construction

2012 ◽  
Vol 193-194 ◽  
pp. 1010-1013
Author(s):  
Shu Qing Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Pore Water ◽  
Clayey Soil ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Excess Pore Pressure ◽  
Soil Pressure ◽  
Excess Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Test Study ◽  
Excess Pore

The construct to precast pile in thick clayey soil can cause the accumulation of excess pore water pressure. The high excess pore pressure can make soil, buildings and pipes surrounded have large deflection, even make them injured. Combining with actual projects, this paper presents an in-situ model test on the changes of excess pore water pressure caused by precast pile construct. It is found that the radius of influence range for single pile driven is about 15m，the excess pore water pressure can reach or even exceed the above effective soil pressure, and there are two relatively stable stages.

A Practical Saturated Sand Elastic-Plastic Dynamic Constitutive Model and Application

2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 1621-1626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Mei Zhang ◽  
Dong Hua Ruan
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Model ◽  
Pore Water ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Stone Columns ◽  
Saturated Sand ◽  
Multidimensional Model ◽  
Excess Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Elastic Plastic ◽  
Excess Pore

A practical saturated sand elastic-plastic dynamic constitutive model was developed on the base of Handin-Drnevich class nonlinear lag model and multidimensional model. In this model, during the calculation of loading before soil reaches yielding, unloading and inverse loading, corrected Handin-Drnevich equivalent nonlinear model was adopted; after soil yielding, based on the idea of multidimensional model, the composite hardening law which combines isotropy hardening and follow-up hardening, corrected Mohr-Coulomb yielding criterion and correlation flow principle were adopted. A fully coupled three dimension effective stress dynamic analysis procedure was developed on the base of this model. The seismic response of liquefaction foundation reinforced by stone columns was analyzed by the developed procedure. The research shows that with the diameter of stone columns increasing, the excess pore water pressure in soil between piles decreases; with the spacing of columns increasing, the excess pore water pressure increases. The influence of both is major in middle and lower level of composite foundation.

scholarly journals Integrated Simulation Modeling Approach for Investigating Pore Water Pressure Induced Landslides

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahila Beegum ◽  
P J Jainet ◽  
Dawn Emil ◽  
K P Sudheer ◽  
Saurav Das
Keyword(s):  
Pore Water ◽  
Factor Of Safety ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Integrated Simulation ◽  
Hill Slope ◽  
Slope Factor ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Hill

Abstract Soil pore water pressure analysis is crucial for understanding landslide initiation and prediction. However, field-scale transient pore water pressure measurements are complex. This study investigates the integrated application of simulation models (HYDRUS-2D/3D and GeoStudio–Slope/W) to analyze pore water pressure-induced landslides. The proposed methodology is illustrated and validated using a case study (landslide in India, 2018). Model simulated pore water pressure was correlated with the stability of hillslope, and simulation results were found to be co-aligned with the actual landslide that occurred in 2018. Simulations were carried out for natural and modified hill slope geometry in the study area. The volume of water in the hill slope, temporal and spatial evolution of pore water pressure, and factor of safety were analysed. Results indicated higher stability in natural hillslope (factor of safety of 1.243) compared to modified hill slope (factor of safety of 0.946) despite a higher pore water pressure in the natural hillslope. The study demonstrates the integrated applicability of the physics-based models in analyzing the stability of hill slopes under varying pore water pressure and hill slope geometry and its accuracy in predicting future landslides.

Infiltration characteristics of two instrumented residual soil slopes

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 1012-1032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Illias Tsaparas ◽  
Harianto Rahardjo ◽  
David G Toll ◽  
Eng-Choon Leong
Keyword(s):  
Pore Water ◽  
Pore Water Pressure ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Residual Soil ◽  
Rainfall Runoff ◽  
Rainfall Events ◽  
Pore Water Pressures ◽  
Soil Slopes ◽  
Pressure Changes

This paper presents the analysis of a 12 month long field study of the infiltration characteristics of two residual soil slopes in Singapore. The field measurements consist of rainfall data, runoff data of natural and simulated rainfall events, and pore-water pressure changes during infiltration at several depths and at several locations on the two slopes. The analysis of the field measurements identifies the total rainfall and the initial pore-water pressures within the two slopes as the controlling parameters for the changes in the pore-water pressures within the slopes during infiltration.Key words: infiltration, rainfall, runoff, pore-water pressure, field measurements.

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