Investigation of Lateral Resistance of Short Pile by Large-Scale Load Tests

Su-Hyung Lee; Yeong-Tae Choi; Il-Wha Lee; Min-Taek Yoo

doi:10.7843/kgs.2017.33.8.5

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Investigation of Lateral Resistance of Short Pile by Large-Scale Load Tests 실물 재하시험을 통한 짧은말뚝의 횡방향 저항거동 평가

31 August 2017. pp. 5-16

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Abstract

When a lateral load is applied to a short pile whose embedded depth is relatively smaller than its diameter, an overturning failure occurs. To investigate the behavior of laterally loaded short piles, several model tests in laboratory scales had been carried out, however the behavior of large moment carrying piles for electric poles, traffic sign and road lamp, etc. have not been revealed yet. This paper deals with the real-scale load tests for 750 mm diameter short piles. To simulate the actual loading condition, very large moment was mobilized by applying lateral loads to the location 8 m away from the pile head. Three load tests changing the pile embedded lengths to 2.0 m, 2.5 m, and 3.0 m were carried out. The test piles overturned abruptly with very small displacement and rotation before the failures. These brittle failures are in contrast with the ductile failures shown in the former model tests with the relatively smaller moment to lateral load ratio. Comparisons of the test results with three existing methods for the estimation of the ultimate lateral capacity show that the method assuming the rotation point at pile tip matches well when the embedded depth is small, however, as the embedded depth increases the other two methods assuming the inversion of soil pressure with respect to rotation points in pile length match better.

Keywords

Lateral resistance

Overturning

Short pile

Large-scale

Load test

Moment

근입깊이가 직경에 비하여 상대적으로 작은 말뚝은 편심이 큰 횡방향 하중을 받는 경우 전도되어 파괴된다. 지금까 지 횡방향하중을 받는 짧은말뚝의 지지거동에 대해서는 주로 모형실험을 적용한 연구가 수행되었지만, 전주, 표지판, 가로등 기초와 같이 매우 큰 모멘트를 받는 짧은말뚝의 지지거동은 아직까지 명확히 규명된 바 없다. 본 연구에서는 직경 750mm의 실물크기 말뚝에 대한 재하시험을 수행하였다. 실제 하중조건을 모사하기 위하여 기초로 부터 8m 이격된 지점에 횡방향 하중을 가하여 매우 큰 모멘트를 유발하였으며, 말뚝의 근입깊이를 2.0m, 2.5m, 3.0m로 변화시 킨 3회의 시험을 수행하였다. 시험결과 큰 모멘트를 받는 짧은말뚝은 파괴 직전까지 변위나 회전각이 거의 발생하지 않다가 전도로 인해 급격한 변위가 발생하는 취성형태로 파괴 되었다. 이러한 거동은 기존의 횡방향 위주의 하중을 받는 짧은말뚝에서 나타난 연성파괴 거동과는 대조적이다. 기존에 제안된 세 종류의 지지력 예측식으로 부터 구한 짧은말뚝의 극한 횡방향지지력을 시험결과와 비교하였으며, 말뚝 근입깊이가 상대적으로 작은 경우는 말뚝선단 중심 의 회전을 가정한 제안식이 적절하지만, 근입깊이가 커지면서 회전점을 중심으로 응력방향이 반전되는 토압분포를 가정한 제안식이 보다 적절한 것으로 평가되었다.

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Publisher :The Korean Geotechnical Society
Publisher(Ko) :한국지반공학회
Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
Journal Title(Ko) :한국지반공학회 논문집
Volume : 33
No :8
Pages :5-16
Received Date : 2017-07-05
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7843/kgs.2017.33.8.5

Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society ISSN:1229-2427(Print) 2288-646X(Online) 한국지반공학회 논문집

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