Dynamic behavior of pile foundations under cyclic loading in liquefiable soils

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 114-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Rahmani ◽  
Ali Pak
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 04019066
Author(s):  
Emad Ghazavi Baghini ◽  
Mohammad Mohsen Toufigh ◽  
Vahid Toufigh

Author(s):  
Shizuo Tsurumaki ◽  
Hiroyuki Watanabe ◽  
Akira Tateishi ◽  
Kenichi Horikoshi ◽  
Shunichi Suzuki

In Japan, there is a possibility that interim storage facilities for recycled nuclear fuel resources may be constructed on quaternary layers, rather than on hard rock. In such a case, the storage facilities need to be supported by pile foundations or spread foundations to meet the required safety level. The authors have conducted a series of experimental studies on the dynamic behavior of storage facilities supported by pile foundations. A centrifuge modeling technique was used to satisfy the required similitude between the reduced size model and the prototype. The centrifuge allows a high confining stress level equivalent to prototype deep soils to be generated (which is considered necessary for examining complex pile-soil interactions) as the soil strength and the deformation are highly dependent on the confining stress. The soil conditions were set at as experimental variables, and the results are compared. Since 2000, the Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation (NUPEC) has been conducting these research tests under the auspices on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junwei Liu ◽  
Suriya Prakash Ganesan ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Ankit Garg ◽  
Aman Singhal ◽  
...  

Biochar has been recently investigated as an eco-friendly material in bio-engineered slopes/landfill covers. A majority of recent studies have focused on analyzing water retention behavior while very few have examined dynamic behavior (i.e., cyclic loading due to earthquake, wind, or wave) of biochar amended soil. As far as the authors are aware, there is no study on the dynamic behavior of biochar amended soils. Considering the above mentioned study as a major objective, field excavated soil was collected and mixed with in-house produced biochar from peach endocarps, at three amendment rates (5%, 10%, and 15%). The un-amended bare soil and biochar amended soil were imposed to a cyclic load in a self-designed apparatus and the corresponding stress-strain parameters were measured. Dynamic parameters such as shear modulus and damping ratio were computed and the results were compared between bare and biochar amended soil. Furthermore, the residual cyclic strength of each soil types were correlated with an estimated void ratio to understand the interrelation between dynamic loading responses and biochar amended soils. The major outcomes of this study show that the addition of biochar decreases the void ratio, thereby increasing the shear modulus and residual cyclic strength. However, the modulus and strength values attenuates after 15 cycles due to an increase in pore water pressure. In contrary, at higher amendment rates, Biochar Amended Soils (BAS) forms clay-carbon complex and decreases both shear modulus and residual cyclic strength.


HBRC Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed M. Khalil ◽  
Asmaa M. Hassan ◽  
Hussein H. Elmamlouk

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