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GEOMECHANICS AND GEOENGINEERING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 252-269Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17486025.2016.1151556
Keywords
Stone columns; creep; settlement improvement factor; axisymmetry; finite element method
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- Irish Research Council (IRC)
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While it is well established that vibro stone columns reduce primary settlement and improve bearing capacity, their effect on creep compression has largely been overlooked to date. However, with increasing pressure to develop marginal sites underlain by soft organic soils, the effect of ground treatment on creep is an important emerging issue in geotechnical engineering. In this paper, a series of axisymmetric unit cell analyses have been carried out using the PLAXIS 2D finite element program in conjunction with the Soft Soil Creep (SSC) model. Examination of the evolution of settlement improvement factor with time has indicated that the presence of creep leads to a lower 'total' improvement factor than would be obtained for primary consolidation settlement alone. Separate 'primary' and 'creep' improvement factors have also been derived; the latter are much lower than the former, but are nevertheless greater than unity. Creep results in a stress transfer process; as the soil creeps, vertical stress is transferred from the soil to the stone column. The additional load carried by the column induces additional yielding and shear-plane formation in closely-spaced columns. The additional increment of stress transferred to the already yielded column reduces its efficacy.
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