Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
28 Mar 2001, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Abstract
In the last four decades, there has been a steady trend toward the use of ground improvement as a countermeasure against the hazard of liquefaction. It is well understood that sites with ground improvement suffer less ground deformation and subsidence than adjacent, unimproved areas. However, the lack of quantitative performance data has inhibited the development of empirical relationships between site design parameters such as remediation zone depth and lateral extent and site performance parameters such as ground and building settlement for a given level of earthquake shaking. To date, we have compiled over 90 case histories on the performance of improved sites from 14 earthquakes in Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States. The collection of field case histories, as the first step towards a greater understanding of the performance of improved soil sites during earthquakes, are summarized in this paper. The field case histories cover a wide range of improvement methods, from conventional densification methods like sand compaction piles to less common lateral restraint-based methods such as sheet pile walls or deep soil mixing grids. The collected data indicate that improved sites generally performed well. About 10 percent of the surveyed sites required significant post-earthquake remediation, repair or demolition. Unacceptable performance designations resulted most often for excessive ground deformations in the presence of a severe lateral spreading hazard or because of an insufficient remediation zone depth.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2001 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
Hausler, Elizabeth A. and Sitar, Nicholar, "Performance of Soil Improvement Techniques in Earthquakes" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 6.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session10/6
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Performance of Soil Improvement Techniques in Earthquakes
San Diego, California
In the last four decades, there has been a steady trend toward the use of ground improvement as a countermeasure against the hazard of liquefaction. It is well understood that sites with ground improvement suffer less ground deformation and subsidence than adjacent, unimproved areas. However, the lack of quantitative performance data has inhibited the development of empirical relationships between site design parameters such as remediation zone depth and lateral extent and site performance parameters such as ground and building settlement for a given level of earthquake shaking. To date, we have compiled over 90 case histories on the performance of improved sites from 14 earthquakes in Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States. The collection of field case histories, as the first step towards a greater understanding of the performance of improved soil sites during earthquakes, are summarized in this paper. The field case histories cover a wide range of improvement methods, from conventional densification methods like sand compaction piles to less common lateral restraint-based methods such as sheet pile walls or deep soil mixing grids. The collected data indicate that improved sites generally performed well. About 10 percent of the surveyed sites required significant post-earthquake remediation, repair or demolition. Unacceptable performance designations resulted most often for excessive ground deformations in the presence of a severe lateral spreading hazard or because of an insufficient remediation zone depth.
