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Studies on the behavior of single and group of geosynthetic encased stone columns / S. Murugesan in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Vol. 136 N° 1 (Janvier 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 136 N° 1 (Janvier 2010) . - pp. 129-139 Titre : Studies on the behavior of single and group of geosynthetic encased stone columns Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : S. Murugesan, Auteur ; K. Rajagopal, Auteur Article en page(s) : pp. 129-139 Note générale : Géotechnique Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Stone  columns  Soft  clay  Geosyntheti  Encasement  Ground  improvement Index. décimale : 624.1 Infrastructures.Ouvrages en terre. Fondations. Tunnels Résumé : The stone columns (or granular piles) are increasingly being used as ground reinforcement elements for supporting a wide variety of structures including buildings and flexible structures. The stone columns derive their load capacity from the confinement offered by the surrounding soil. In very soft soils this lateral confinement may not be adequate and the formation of the stone column itself may be doubtful. Wrapping the individual stone columns with suitable geosynthetic is one of the ideal forms of improving the performance of stone columns. This type of encasement by geosynthetic makes the stone columns stiffer and stronger. In addition, encasement prevents the lateral squeezing of stones in to the surrounding clay soil and vice versa, preserves drainage function of the stone column and frictional properties of the aggregates. In spite of many advantages, the behavior and the mechanism of the geosynthetic encased stone columns is not thoroughly understood. This paper investigates the qualitative and quantitative improvement of individual load capacity of stone column by encasement through laboratory model tests conducted on stone columns installed in clay bed prepared in controlled condition in a large scale testing tank. The load tests were performed on single as well as group of stone columns with and without encasement. Tests were performed with different geosynthetics for the encasement of stone column. The results from the load tests indicated a clear improvement in the load capacity of the stone column due to encasement. The increase in the axial load capacity depends very much upon the modulus of the encasement and the diameter of the stone column. The increase in the stress concentration on the stone columns due to encasement was also measured in the tests. The results from the tests were used to develop the design guidelines for the design of geosynthetic encasement for the given load and settlement. DEWEY : 624.1 ISSN : 1090-0241 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=JGGEFK&smode=strres [...] [article] Studies on the behavior of single and group of geosynthetic encased stone columns [texte imprimé] / S. Murugesan, Auteur ; K. Rajagopal, Auteur . - pp. 129-139. Géotechnique Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering > Vol. 136 N° 1 (Janvier 2010) . - pp. 129-139 Mots-clés : Stone  columns  Soft  clay  Geosyntheti  Encasement  Ground  improvement Index. décimale : 624.1 Infrastructures.Ouvrages en terre. Fondations. Tunnels Résumé : The stone columns (or granular piles) are increasingly being used as ground reinforcement elements for supporting a wide variety of structures including buildings and flexible structures. The stone columns derive their load capacity from the confinement offered by the surrounding soil. In very soft soils this lateral confinement may not be adequate and the formation of the stone column itself may be doubtful. Wrapping the individual stone columns with suitable geosynthetic is one of the ideal forms of improving the performance of stone columns. This type of encasement by geosynthetic makes the stone columns stiffer and stronger. In addition, encasement prevents the lateral squeezing of stones in to the surrounding clay soil and vice versa, preserves drainage function of the stone column and frictional properties of the aggregates. In spite of many advantages, the behavior and the mechanism of the geosynthetic encased stone columns is not thoroughly understood. This paper investigates the qualitative and quantitative improvement of individual load capacity of stone column by encasement through laboratory model tests conducted on stone columns installed in clay bed prepared in controlled condition in a large scale testing tank. The load tests were performed on single as well as group of stone columns with and without encasement. Tests were performed with different geosynthetics for the encasement of stone column. The results from the load tests indicated a clear improvement in the load capacity of the stone column due to encasement. The increase in the axial load capacity depends very much upon the modulus of the encasement and the diameter of the stone column. The increase in the stress concentration on the stone columns due to encasement was also measured in the tests. The results from the tests were used to develop the design guidelines for the design of geosynthetic encasement for the given load and settlement. DEWEY : 624.1 ISSN : 1090-0241 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=JGGEFK&smode=strres [...]