Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
03 Jun 1993, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Abstract
The basic policy in Japan is to build nuclear reactor buildings on rock. But, in order to cope with the middle and long term siting problems it has become necessary to develop new siting technology from the standpoint of expanding the available range of site selections and effective utilization of lands. The gravelly soil layer in the Quaternary deposits has high possibility of becoming the bearing soil stratum when constructing a nuclear power plant. In order to verify the seismic stability of such gravelly soil layers, a series of field dynamic and static torsional loading tests for large scale in-situ soil columns were performed. In addition, a series of laboratory tests using a large scale triaxial test apparatus on high quality undisturbed gravel samples obtained by in-situ freezing method were performed. Herein reported are the sampling method of high quality undisturbed samples, laboratory test results and the large in-situ soil column test results.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
3rd Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1993 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Konno, Takaaki; Suzuki, Yoshio; Tateishi, Akira; Ishihara, Kenji; Akino, Kinji; and Iizuka, Setsuo, "Gravelly Soil Properties by Field and Laboratory Tests" (1993). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 9.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/3icchge/3icchge-session03/9
Gravelly Soil Properties by Field and Laboratory Tests
St. Louis, Missouri
The basic policy in Japan is to build nuclear reactor buildings on rock. But, in order to cope with the middle and long term siting problems it has become necessary to develop new siting technology from the standpoint of expanding the available range of site selections and effective utilization of lands. The gravelly soil layer in the Quaternary deposits has high possibility of becoming the bearing soil stratum when constructing a nuclear power plant. In order to verify the seismic stability of such gravelly soil layers, a series of field dynamic and static torsional loading tests for large scale in-situ soil columns were performed. In addition, a series of laboratory tests using a large scale triaxial test apparatus on high quality undisturbed gravel samples obtained by in-situ freezing method were performed. Herein reported are the sampling method of high quality undisturbed samples, laboratory test results and the large in-situ soil column test results.
