An Approximate Method to Determine Lateral Force on Piles or Piers Installed to Support a Structure through Sliding Soil Mass

Piles and drilled shafts are commonly used to stabilize potentially unstable natural and engineered slopes. Estimation of lateral pressures on piles or shafts used to stabilize potentially unstable sites continues to be a fundamental problem in geotechnical engineering. Several methods are available to estimate the lateral force on piles or drilled shafts used to stabilize a site. An approximate procedure to estimate the lateral force on drilled shafts supporting structures, i.e., installed at relatively large spacings on a potentially unstable site with a fixed slip surface is proposed, which is based on a widely referred theory of plastic deformation. Lateral pressures estimated using the method proposed show good agreement with a more rigorous method, which in turn has been reported to provide results close to field measurements. An approximate procedure to estimate a limiting (maximum) value of lateral pressure on shafts or piles when they are installed at close spacings is also proposed. Although, the limiting pressures estimated using the approximate procedure are in agreement with the pressures calculated using more rigorous method, verification of both methods with field measurements is recommended.     

曹安商贸城钢立柱桩逆作法施工方法

曹安商贸城设计逆作法施工钢立柱桩248根。根据桩标高及垂直度的要求，从钢立柱制作与安装、成孔桩机选择、固定架设计制作与安装等方面采取措施，施工的钢立柱标高及垂直度均符合设计及规范要求。     

Study on stability of thin-walled circular pipe piles embedded shallowly under lateral loads

The interaction between soil and rigid piles loaded laterally is analyzed with finite difference method. There is a little difference between computational and experimental value of bearing capacity of rigid piles. Effects of embedding dimensions of piles and mechanical parameters of soil on lateral bearing capacity of rigid piles are studied. It is found that the lateral bearing capacities of rigid piles have important relation with the elastic modulus of soil, have approximate linear relations with the cohesion of soil and the friction coefficient of pile-soil interface and increase obviously with the internal friction angle of soil. But the effects of dilation angle on the lateral bearing capacities of rigid piles are negligible. The relations of bearing capacities of rough piles with smooth piles and the friction coefficient of pile-soil interface are also obtained.     

A 5,600-year-old wooden well in Zhejiang Province,China

In 1973, traces of China’s early Neolithic Hemudu culture (7,000–5,000 BP) were discovered in the village of Hemudu in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province, in the lower Yangtze River coastal plain. The site has yielded animal and plant remains in large quantities and large numbers of logs secured with tenon and mortise joints, commonly used in wooden buildings and other wooden structures. For hydrogeologists, the most interesting structure is an ancient wooden well. The well is believed to be about 5,600 years old, which makes it the oldest wooden well yet found in China. The well site contains over 200 wooden components and can be divided into inner and outer parts. The outer part consists of 28 piles around a pond. The inner part, the wooden well itself, lies in the middle of the pond. The walls of the well were lined with close-set timber piles reinforced by a square wooden frame. The 28 piles in the outer part of the site may have been part of a shelter for the well, suggesting that the people of the Hemudu culture were already concerned with water hygiene and protection of their water source.     

双排护坡桩支护体系应用及模拟分析

双排护坡桩支护体系具有较好的侧向刚度及限制变形的能力.以北京市朝阳区某基坑为例,介绍了双排护坡桩支护体系在复杂周围环境条件下的适用性.并通过工程实测及数值模拟,对双排护坡桩支护体系的变形特征等进行了探讨.     

A Laboratory model study on the performance of lime pile application for marine soils

In this study, research was conducted to examine the performance of the lime pile application, a deep chemical stabilization method to improve the engineering characteristics of marine soil deposits. By using a laboratory-scale model, the marine soil sample was compacted into soil blocks in circular steel test tanks, with the installation of lime piles in them. An experimental program examined the effect of lime piles on physical and engineering properties of the soil in terms of curing periods and lime pile radial distances. Test results showed that clay fines, linear shrinkage, compressibility, and swelling pressure decreased, while permeability, preconsolidation pressure, and stiffness increased significantly with an increase in curing periods and within a close distance to the lime piles. Also, the electrical resistivity of the treated soils was examined to monitor the changes in their electrical properties. Finally, the correlation between the measured electrical resistivity and swell pressure values of the tested soils at different curing periods suggested that the electrical resistivity values can be used as a monitoring technique for deep chemical treatments of the subsurface soil.     

Research on shaft resistance of rock-socketed piles based on the cavity expansion theory

The shaft resistance of rock-socketed piles depends not only on the properties of its surrounding rock, but also on the radial force induced by the load imposed on the top of the pile. This paper deduced a plastic zone of rock around a single pile and obtained the shaft resistance of a rock-socketed pile based on the theories of cavity expansion and shear strength. The research results showed that the magnitude of the radial force in the socketed portion of a rock-socketed pile was related to the pile diameter, Poisson’s ratio, and properties of the surrounding rock. The influence area of rock decreased with increasing pile diameter. The radial force and lateral friction decreased with the increasing relative stiffnesses of the pile and rock. The radial stress on the elastic–plastic interface can be analytically determined based on the rock properties and depth. A field test was used to validate the proposed method, and a good agreement was obtained between the field data and predicted results of the proposed method. The research results in this paper are beneficial to guide actual practice.     

考虑土拱效应的黏性填土排桩桩后土压力研究

研究了考虑土拱效应的黏性填土排桩桩后总土压力的计算方法。以黏性填土的单排支护桩为研究对象,将考虑土拱效应的桩后总土压力分为直接土压力和间接土压力。首先,针对已有土压力计算方法的不足,借鉴并改进了挡土墙的主应力旋转理论,认为主应力旋转后大小会发生改变,通过对土拱单元的应力分析和平衡微分方程的求解,推导出了黏性填土排桩桩后直接土压力的解析式,并将计算结果与前人的解析解和试验数据进行对比,表明改进后的方法与实测数据更加吻合。然后,将改进后的方法应用在黏性土间接土压力的分析中,通过将间接土压力看作是由桩间土体滑裂面上的剪应力沿滑裂面的积分,推导出考虑水平土拱效应的桩后间接土压力和总土压力解析式。最后,探究了总土压力随黏聚力和桩土摩擦角的变化规律,结果表明,土拱效应主要影响桩体H/3深度以下部分,使该部分土压力减小,且越靠近桩底,减小速率越大。该研究可为排桩结构的合理设计提供依据。     

移动车辆荷载环境微振动的排桩隔振参数分析

为满足精密仪器振速控制要求,提出"群桩基础+隔振排桩"与空气弹簧的两级组合隔振措施.主要研究路面移动车辆荷载经过时,第一级隔振中排桩的隔振效果.实测土体小应变动力参数,通过编写车辆-路面耦合单元(VRI)子程序引入路面不平顺,并基于三维有限元法建立了道路-排桩-地基动力模型.将模拟振速经1/3倍频程滤波与实测进行对比,...     

基坑双排桩支护结构设计计算软件开发及应用

随着基坑开挖规模朝更大更深方向发展,传统的单排桩、桩锚、桩撑支护结构受到一定的限制,在变形控制要求较高,又不宜采用内支撑和锚杆的情况下,双排桩能发挥较好的作用。双排桩是由两排平行的支护桩、水平压顶梁和前后联系梁形成的空间围护结构体系,具有刚度大、稳定性好、变形小、便于直立开挖等优点,因而得到广泛应用。新的湖北省《基坑工程技术规程》（DB42/T159-2012）中增加了双排桩支护结构相关章节,提出了双排桩的设计与计算模型。针对湖北省新基坑规范中提出的双排桩支护计算模型,应用VB.NET语言开发出一款操作简单、实用性强的基坑双排桩设计计算软件（DESDROP）,本软件的开发与研究是为配合湖北省新基坑规程实施而进行的。该软件能对双排桩前后桩的位移、内力和稳定性进行分析,并可以通过查询结果图看到任一工况条件下的土压力、位移、弯矩、剪力图。将该软件应用于金地名郡基坑工程,结果表明,DESDROP软件运算速度快,计算结果能满足双排桩支护设计的需要。