Repair, Evaluation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation Research Program. Applications of the State of the Art of Stone Columns - Liquefaction, Local, Bearing Failure, and Example Calculations.

Abstract

Stone columns offer one potential technique for rehabilitating the foundations beneath existing structures to withstand both static and earthquake loadings. A detailed discussion of stone columns has been given in a previously published Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) report entitled Design and Construction of Stone Column, Vol I. The present report supplements the FHWA report, presenting earthquake engineering and excess pore pressure considerations and giving the previously unpublished appendixes. Seed and Booker's method is presented for estimating the dissipation of excess pore pressure in stone column improved ground during strong motion earthquakes. Keywords: Bearing capacity, Earthquake loading, In-situ deep compaction, Liquefaction, Pore water pressure, Remedial treatments, Settlement, Soil reinforcement, Soils, Stability, Stone columns.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA191606

Entities

People

  • Richard D. Barksdale

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Command Control Communications
  • Construction
  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Internal Friction
  • Materials
  • Mechanics
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • New York
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Pore Pressure
  • Soil Mechanics
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Agricultural Chemistry/Soil Science
  • Manufacturing Engineering.
  • Structural Dynamics.