scholarly journals Study on the settlement and the load-bearing capacity of Long An soft ground reinforced by the stone columns

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-129
Author(s):  
Vinh Le Ba ◽  
Khanh Le Ba
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Mohtasham ◽  
Mahdi Khodaparast

One of the best methods for rehabilitating loos and soft soils is the application of stone columns. This method enhances the soil properties by increasing its load-bearing capacity, decreasing the soil subsidence, and accelerating the consolidation rate. In the present paper, numerical analysis of a stone column of 10 m in length into a clayey soil using ABAQUS software is presented. The stone column was modelled based on the concept of unit cell, i.e. a single stone column with the surrounding soil. In this respect, material of the stone column was modelled using the elastoplastic behavioural model of Mohr-Coulomb, while Cam Clay behavioural model was used for the surrounding clayey soil. Furthermore, throughout the analyses performed in this study, effects of different parameters (e.g. applied load on rigid foundation, and the stone column length and diameter) on the subsidence and consolidation time of the rigid foundation were examined. The results indicated that, construction of a stone column into clayey soil decreases the subsidence and consolidation time of the soil considerably. In additions, increases in length and diameter of the stone column were found to significantly contribute to reduced subsidence and consolidation time of soil.


Author(s):  
Lê Quân ◽  
Võ Đại Nhật ◽  
Nguyễn Việt Kỳ ◽  
Phạm Tiến Bách

In Vietnam, the overpopulation and strong economic development require the synchronous development of infrastructure such as roads, urban areas, industrial parks, export processing zones, etc. With such requirements, the development of land fund for infrastructure construction is an indispensable need. Meanwhile, the appropriate land fund is very limited. Therefore, the land fund must be developed for areas with little value for agriculture, such as swamps, estuaries, and coastal areas, etc. These areas often have weak geological conditions; hence, to meet the requirements of infrastructure construction on the soft ground, it is necessary to carry out soil improvement to ensure load bearing capacity, total settlement, and consolidation settlement but still ensuring economic effectiveness. Beside several conventional methods widely used for soft soil improvement in order to increase bearing capacity and accelerate consolidation settlement of the ground, geosynthetic reinforced granular column is one of the new methods that has been applied to improving soft ground in designing practice in the recent years due to the many advantages of this method compared with other methods. In this paper, based on the unit cell model, the authors research on deformation behavior of granular column reinforced by geosynthetic encasement through the analytical analysis by varying external loadings corresponding to column diameter, stiffness of geosynthetic encasement. The settlements of a single geosynthetic encased granular column and load bearing capacity of the composite foundation are calculated on geological conditions of Ash Pond Area of Song Hau 1 Thermal Power Plant located in Hau Giang Province. The relationship between settlement and load bearing capacity with external loadings for different column diameters and geosynthetic stiffnesses are shown schematically. Other considerations related to factor of safety are also presented. The future researches are also proposed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 923 ◽  
pp. 93-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Witzany ◽  
Radek Zigler

The experimental research of failure mechanism of stone columns made of coursed masonry of regular sandstone blocks and coursed masonry of irregular (freestone) blocks under concentric compression and the research of the performance of non-reinforced as well as CFRP-reinforced stone columns completed to-date pointed out the necessity of a different approach to the assessment of the load-bearing capacity, or residual load-bearing capacity, of masonry composed of stone blocks.


2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Per Heyser ◽  
Vadim Sartisson ◽  
Gerson Meschut ◽  
Marcel Droß ◽  
Klaus Dröder

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-100
Author(s):  
Oana Tanculescu ◽  
Adrian Doloca ◽  
Raluca Maria Vieriu ◽  
Florentina Mocanu ◽  
Gabriela Ifteni ◽  
...  

The load-bearing capacity and fracture pattern of direct inlay-retained FRC FDPs with two different cross-sectional designs of the ponticwere tested. The aim of the study was to evaluate a new fibre disposition. Two types of composites, Filtek Bulk Fill Posterior Restorative and Filtek Z250 (3M/ESPE, St. Paul, MN, USA), and one braided polyethylene fibre, Construct (Kerr, USA) were used. The results of the study suggested that the new tested disposition of the fibres prevented in some extend the delamination of the composite on buccal and facial sides of the pontic and increased the load-bearing capacity of the bridges.


2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 503-518
Author(s):  
Juan Han ◽  
Lu Zhu ◽  
Hai Fang ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Peng Wu

Abstract This article proposed an innovative composite sandwich structure reinforced with trapezoidal latticed webs with angles of 45°, 60° and 75°. Four specimens were conducted according to quasi-static compression methods to investigate the compressive behavior of the novel composite structures. The experimental results indicated that the specimen with 45° trapezoidal latticed webs showed the most excellent energy absorption ability, which was about 2.5 times of the structures with vertical latticed webs. Compared to the traditional composite sandwich structure, the elastic displacement and ultimate load-bearing capacity of the specimen with 45° trapezoidal latticed webs were increased by 624.1 and 439.8%, respectively. Numerical analysis of the composite sandwich structures was carried out by using a nonlinear explicit finite element (FE) software ANSYS/LS-DYNA. The influence of the thickness of face sheets, lattice webs and foam density on the elastic ultimate load-bearing capacity, the elastic displacement and initial stiffness was analyzed. This innovative composite bumper device for bridge pier protection against ship collision was simulated to verify its performance. The results showed that the peak impact force of the composite anti-collision device with 45° trapezoidal latticed webs would be reduced by 17.3%, and the time duration will be prolonged by about 31.1%.


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