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Discrete passive piles for infrastructure slope stabilization

Discrete passive piles for infrastructure slope stabilization
Discrete passive piles for infrastructure slope stabilization
Discrete piles are increasingly being used to stabilise infrastructure earthwork slopes such as road and railway embankments and cuttings. Historically, there have been a number of uncertainties relating to how such piles behave. These include the maximum spacing at which such piles can be installed and still be effective, appropriate methods of analysis especially when there no obvious pre-existing failure surface, and the limiting lateral pile soil pressure especially in an effective stress analysis. This paper discusses these issues, with reference to geotechnical centrifuge tests, three dimensional finite element analyses, and field measurements over a period of years at a number of sites that reveal a variety of different pile-soil interaction behavioural modes.
Powrie, W.
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Smethurst, J.A.
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Powrie, W.
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Smethurst, J.A.
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Powrie, W. and Smethurst, J.A. (2015) Discrete passive piles for infrastructure slope stabilization. International Conference on Soft Ground Engineering (ICSGE 2015), Singapore, Singapore. 03 - 04 Dec 2015. 16 pp .

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Abstract

Discrete piles are increasingly being used to stabilise infrastructure earthwork slopes such as road and railway embankments and cuttings. Historically, there have been a number of uncertainties relating to how such piles behave. These include the maximum spacing at which such piles can be installed and still be effective, appropriate methods of analysis especially when there no obvious pre-existing failure surface, and the limiting lateral pile soil pressure especially in an effective stress analysis. This paper discusses these issues, with reference to geotechnical centrifuge tests, three dimensional finite element analyses, and field measurements over a period of years at a number of sites that reveal a variety of different pile-soil interaction behavioural modes.

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Accepted/In Press date: 28 October 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: December 2015
Venue - Dates: International Conference on Soft Ground Engineering (ICSGE 2015), Singapore, Singapore, 2015-12-03 - 2015-12-04
Organisations: Infrastructure Group

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Local EPrints ID: 398417
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/398417
PURE UUID: 00d7ec92-69c3-414f-883b-df80dcd48c4b
ORCID for W. Powrie: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2271-0826
ORCID for J.A. Smethurst: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8175-985X

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Date deposited: 25 Jul 2016 10:54
Last modified: 12 Aug 2024 01:36

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