Location

San Diego, California

Presentation Date

29 May 2010, 8:00 am - 9:30 am

Abstract

This paper describes the effect of countermeasures for liquefaction by compaction grouting, which was investigated by the experiment of full-scale field liquefaction by controlled blast technique. The experiment was conducted to assess the performance of airport facilities subjected to liquefaction, to investigate damage mechanism, and to estimate the effect of countermeasures for liquefaction by compaction grouting applied to liquefiable sand layer under runway pavement. In this study, before and after grouting and after artificial liquefaction caused by in-situ blasting, self boring pressure-meter tests at the center and the edge of a grouted area were carried out to investigate the coefficient of earth pressure, K, for evaluation of the improved ground because it is generally known that compaction grouting makes K-value increase in and around the grouted area. Additionally, to estimate the continuation of improving effect after liquefaction, K-values after blast were also investigated at same points. As the results of investigation, it was found that post-liquefaction K-value was higher than that of untreated ground before improvement and compaction grouting with cost-reduction design examined in this study, that is, the cost-reduction design is effective.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Meeting Name

5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Final Version

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English

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Investigation of the Coefficient of Earth Pressure for Improved Ground by Compaction Grouting in the Full-Scale Field Liquefaction Experiment

San Diego, California

This paper describes the effect of countermeasures for liquefaction by compaction grouting, which was investigated by the experiment of full-scale field liquefaction by controlled blast technique. The experiment was conducted to assess the performance of airport facilities subjected to liquefaction, to investigate damage mechanism, and to estimate the effect of countermeasures for liquefaction by compaction grouting applied to liquefiable sand layer under runway pavement. In this study, before and after grouting and after artificial liquefaction caused by in-situ blasting, self boring pressure-meter tests at the center and the edge of a grouted area were carried out to investigate the coefficient of earth pressure, K, for evaluation of the improved ground because it is generally known that compaction grouting makes K-value increase in and around the grouted area. Additionally, to estimate the continuation of improving effect after liquefaction, K-values after blast were also investigated at same points. As the results of investigation, it was found that post-liquefaction K-value was higher than that of untreated ground before improvement and compaction grouting with cost-reduction design examined in this study, that is, the cost-reduction design is effective.