A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method
A membraneless vacuum preloading method is proposed in this paper for soft soil improvement. The method offers several advantages over the conventional vacuum preloading in which membrane is used to create the airtight condition and sand blanket layer to distribute vacuum. To assess the effectivenes...
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| author | Sun, Liqiang Guo, Wei Chu, Jian Nie, Wen Ren, Yuxiao Yan, Shuwang Hou, Jinfang |
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| description | A membraneless vacuum preloading method is proposed in this paper for soft soil improvement. The method offers several advantages over the conventional vacuum preloading in which membrane is used to create the airtight condition and sand blanket layer to distribute vacuum. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed method, a pilot test was conducted at a land reclamation site in Tianjin, China. The ground settlement and the pore water pressure (PWP) at different elevations in soil were measured. After vacuum preloading, the average water content of the soft soils reduced by approximately 12% and the undrained shear strength increased twofold. The average degree of consolidation at the end of the vacuum preloading achieved 85.1% based on the settlement data and 84.5% based on the PWP data. The pilot test data have shown that the proposed method exhibits similar efficiencies to the conventional vacuum preloading method. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/834602020-03-07T11:43:35Z A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method Sun, Liqiang Guo, Wei Chu, Jian Nie, Wen Ren, Yuxiao Yan, Shuwang Hou, Jinfang School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Vacuum preloading Geosynthetics A membraneless vacuum preloading method is proposed in this paper for soft soil improvement. The method offers several advantages over the conventional vacuum preloading in which membrane is used to create the airtight condition and sand blanket layer to distribute vacuum. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed method, a pilot test was conducted at a land reclamation site in Tianjin, China. The ground settlement and the pore water pressure (PWP) at different elevations in soil were measured. After vacuum preloading, the average water content of the soft soils reduced by approximately 12% and the undrained shear strength increased twofold. The average degree of consolidation at the end of the vacuum preloading achieved 85.1% based on the settlement data and 84.5% based on the PWP data. The pilot test data have shown that the proposed method exhibits similar efficiencies to the conventional vacuum preloading method. Accepted version 2017-06-07T09:33:10Z 2019-12-06T15:23:28Z 2017-06-07T09:33:10Z 2019-12-06T15:23:28Z 2017 Journal Article Sun, L., Guo, W., Chu, J., Nie, W., Ren, Y., Yan, S., et al. (2017). A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method. Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 45(3), 142-148. 0266-1144 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83460 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42616 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2017.01.005 en Geotextiles and Geomembranes © 2017 Elsevier. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Elsevier. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geotexmem.2017.01.005]. 28 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Vacuum preloading Geosynthetics Sun, Liqiang Guo, Wei Chu, Jian Nie, Wen Ren, Yuxiao Yan, Shuwang Hou, Jinfang A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method |
| title | A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method |
| title_full | A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method |
| title_fullStr | A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method |
| title_full_unstemmed | A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method |
| title_short | A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method |
| title_sort | pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method |
| topic | Vacuum preloading Geosynthetics |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83460 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42616 |
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