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Evaluation of CPTU Cone Factor of Silty Soil with Low Plasticity Focusing on Undrained Shear Strength Characteristics

저소성 실트지반의 비배수 전단강도 특성을 고려한 CPTU 콘계수 평가

Ju-Hyun Kim1*
김 주현1*
1Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Dongshin University
*교신저자. *Corresponding Author. 
30 March 2017. pp. 73-83
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Abstract

Laboratory and in-situ tests were conducted to evaluate the cone factors for the layers with low plasticity containing a lot of silty and sand soils from the west coast (Incheon, Hwaseong and Gunsan areas) and its applicability was evaluated based on these results. The cone factors were evaluated from 19 to 23 based on unconfined compression strengths (qu), from 13 to 13.8 based on simple CU strengths and from 11.6 to 13.1 based on field vane strengths, respectively. The unconfined compression strengths of undisturbed silty soil samples with low plasticity were considerably underestimated due to the change of in-situ residual effective stress during sampling. Half of unconfined compression strength (qu/2) based cone factors of silty soils with low plasticity fluctuated and were approximately 1.8 times higher than simple CU based values of these soils. When evaluating cone factors of these soils, it should be judged overall on the physical properties such as the grain size distribution and soil plasticity and on the fluctuation of the corrected cone resistance and the sleeve friction due to the distribution of sandseam in the ground including pore pressure parameter

Keywords
Silty soil
Low plasticity
CPTU data
Cone factor
Unconfined compression test
Simple CU test

모래 및 실트 함유량이 우세한 서해안 저소성 지반(인천, 화성, 군산)에서 실시된 실내 및 현장시험으로부터 얻어진 비배수전단강도를 이용하여 피에조콘계수(Nkt)를 분석한 후, 이에 대한 적용성을 평가하였다. 인천, 화성 및 군산지역에서 얻어진 일축압축강도에 의한 콘계수(Nkt)는 19∼23, 간이 CU 강도에 의한 값은 13∼13.8, 현장베인강도에 의한 값은 11.6∼13.1로 평가되었다. 이는 저소성 실트 지반조건에서 일축압축강도가 과소평가되는 원인에 의한 것으로 간이 CU 강도 적용조건과 비교했을 때 콘계수(Nkt)가 약 1.8배 전후로 커지며 분산되는 경향을 나타냈다. 저소성 실트 지반에서 수행된 CPTU 데이터를 이용하여 콘계수(Nkt)를 평가할 때에는 지반의 입도분포, 액소성한계 등의 물리적 특성, 지층 내의 sandseam 분포 등으로 인한 콘선단저항(qt) 및 주면마찰력(fs)의 불규칙한 분포, 간극수압계수(Bq)를 종합적으로 분석하여 수행하는 것이 바람직할 것으로 판단된다.

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  • Publisher :Korean Geosythetics Society
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국지반신소재학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국지반신소재학회 논문집
  • Volume : 16
  • No :1
  • Pages :73-83
  • Received Date : 2017-02-20
  • Revised Date : 2017-03-22
  • Accepted Date : 2017-03-24
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.12814/jkgss.2017.16.1.073
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