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{"title":"Experimental study of the evolution of pore water pressure and total stresses during and after the deposition of slurried backfill","authors":"El Mustapha Jaouhara, Jian Zheng, Li Li","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.26.5.499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.26.5.499","url":null,"abstract":"Mining backfill is increasingly used in underground mines to fill stopes. Its successful application depends on the stability of barricades built to retain the backfill in stopes. The design of barricades requires a good estimation of pore water pressure (PWP) and total stresses during and after the deposition. On this regard, a large number of works have been published on analytical and numerical solutions. There are however very few experimental results with simultaneous measurements of PWP as well as horizontal and vertical total stresses that can be used to validate or calibrate the analytical and numerical solutions. For a specific project, field measurements are interesting in terms of representativeness to field conditions, but the results are very difficult to be correctly interpreted because the treated problem can involve a large number of uncertainties and the obtained results are due to combined effects of several influencing factors. Laboratory tests with simplified and well-controlled conditions are thus preferred. Until now, however, the most previous laboratory tests were conducted with dry backfill or with a tailings slurry instantaneously poured in a confining structure without simultaneous measurements of PWP as well as horizontal and vertical total stresses. Studies on the effects of filling rate and solid content of backfill on the variation of PWP and total stresses during the filling operation are absent. To fill these gaps, a series of column backfilling tests were conducted with simultaneous measurements of PWP as well as vertical and horizontal total stresses during and after the deposition of slurried backfill. When the filling rate is high, the test results showed that the PWP, horizontal and vertical total stresses increase at the same rate and equal to the iso-geostatic overburden pressure during the deposition of backfill slurry. Their peak values appear at the end of deposition. The backfill thus behaves like a liquid with little generation of effective stresses during the deposition. High filling rate and/or high solid content lead to high PWP and horizontal total stresses at the end of deposition. When the filling rate is small, the PWP and total stresses exhibit also peak values at the end of filling operation, but the vertical total stress at the center can continue increasing with time after the end of deposition due to the suspended sensor and occurrence of a phenomenon known as stress shielding effect. The results also showed that the settlement of settled backfill after the end of slurry deposition can generally exhibits a fast evolution rate stage, followed by a slow evolution rate stage. The duration of the fast evolution rate stage and the final settlement of the settled backfill increase as the solid content decreases. The final settlement after the end of slurry deposition is related to the solid content, not to the filling rate.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66479922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review on engineering properties of MICP-treated soils","authors":"Tong Yu, H. Souli, Y. Péchaud, J. Fleureau","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.27.1.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.27.1.013","url":null,"abstract":"Microbial induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP), a sustainable and effective soil improvement method, has experienced a burgeoning development in recent years. It is a bio-mediated method that uses the metabolic process of bacteria to cause CaCO3 precipitation in the pore space of the soil. This technique has a large potential in the geotechnical engineering field to enhance soil properties, including mitigation of liquefaction, control of suffusion, etc. Multi-scale studies, from microstructure investigations (microscopic imaging and related rising techniques at micron-scale), to macroscopic tests (lab-based physical, chemical and mechanical tests from centimeter to meter), to in-situ trials (kilometers), have been done to study the mechanisms and efficiency of MICP. In this article, results obtained in recent years from various testing methods (conventional tests including unconfined compression tests, triaxial and oedometric tests, centrifuge tests, shear wave velocity and permeability measurements, as well as microscopic imaging) were selected, presented, analyzed and summarized, in order to be used as reference for future studies. Though results obtained in various studies are rather scattered, owning to the different experimental conditions, general conclusions can be given: when the CaCO3 content (CCC) increases, the unconfined compression strength increases (up to 1.4 MPa for CCC=5%) as well as the shear wave velocity (more than 1-fold increase in V_s for each 1% CaCO3 precipitated), and the permeability decreases (with a drop limited to less than 3 orders of magnitude). Concerning the mechanical behavior of MICP treated soil, an increase in the peak properties, an indefinite increase in friction angle and a large increase in cohesion were obtained. When the soil was subjected to cyclic/dynamic loadings, lower pore pressure generation, reduced strains, and increasing number of cycles to reach liquefaction were concluded. It is important to note that the formation of CaCO3 results in an increase in the dry density of the samples, which adds to the bonding of particles and may play a major part in the improvement of the mechanical properties of soil, such as peak maximum deviator, resistance to liquefaction, etc.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66480980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Soil vibration induced by railway traffic around a pile under the inclined bedrock condition","authors":"Xuan Ding, Li-ming Qu, Jin-chuan Yang, Chenglong Wang","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.24.2.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.24.2.143","url":null,"abstract":"Rail transit lines usually pass through many complicated topographies in mountain areas. The influence of inclined bedrock on the train-induced soil vibration response was investigated. Model tests were conducted to comparatively analyze the vibration attenuation under inclined bedrock and horizontal bedrock conditions. A three-dimension numerical model was built to make parameter analysis. The results show that under the horizontal bedrock condition, the peak velocity in different directions was almost the same, while it obviously changed under the inclined bedrock condition. Further, the peak velocity under inclined bedrock condition had a larger value. The peak velocity first increased and then decreased with depth, and the trend of the curve of vibration attenuation with depth presented as a quadratic parabola. The terrain conditions had a significant influence on the vibration responses, and the inclined soil surface mainly affected the shallow soil. The influence of the dip angle of bedrock on the peak velocity and vibration attenuation was related to the directions of the ground surface. As the soil thickness increased, the peak velocity decreased, and as it reached 173% of the embedded pile length, the influence of the inclined bedrock could be neglected.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66472075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Influence of soil model complexity on the seismic response of shallow foundations","authors":"Saif Alzabeebee","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.24.2.193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.24.2.193","url":null,"abstract":"The time-history finite element analysis is usually used to evaluate the seismic response of shallow foundations. However, the literature lacks studies on the influence of the soil constitutive model complexity on the seismic response of shallow foundations. This study, thus, aims to fill this gap by investigating the seismic response of shallow foundation resting on dry silica sand using the linear elastic (LE) model, elastic-perfectly-plastic (EPP) model, and hardening soil with small strain stiffness (HS small) model. These models have been used because it is intended to compare the results of a soil constitutive model that accurately captures the seismic response of the soil-structure interaction problems (which is the HS small model) with simpler models (the LE and EPP models) that are routinely used by practitioners in geotechnical designs. The results showed that the LE model produces a very small seismic settlement value which is approximately equal to zero. The EPP model predicts a seismic settlement higher than that produced using the HS small model for earthquakes with a peak ground acceleration (PGA) lower than 0.25 g for a relative density of 45% and 0.40 g for a relative density of 70%. However, the HS small model predicts a seismic settlement higher than the EPP model beyond the aforementioned PGA values with the difference between both models increases as the PGA rises. The results also showed that the LE and EPP models predict similar trend and magnitude of the acceleration-time relationship directly below the foundation, which was different than that predicted using the HS small model. The results reported in this paper provide a useful benchmark for future numerical studies on the response of shallow foundations subjected to seismic shake.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66472198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of Injection capabilities of a biopolymer-based grout material","authors":"Minhyeong Lee, J. Im, I. Chang, G. Cho","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.25.1.031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.25.1.031","url":null,"abstract":"Injection grouting is one of the most common ground improvement practice to increase the strength and reduce the hydraulic conductivity of soils. Owing to the environmental concerns of conventional grout materials, such as cement-based or silicate-based materials, bio-inspired biogeotechnical approaches are considered to be new sustainable and environmentally friendly ground improvement methods. Biopolymers, which are excretory products from living organisms, have been shown to significantly reduce the hydraulic conductivity via pore-clogging and increase the strength of soils. To study the practical application of biopolymers for seepage and ground water control, in this study, we explored the injection capabilities of biopolymer-based grout materials in both linear aperture and particulate media (i.e., sand and glassbeads) considering different injection pressures, biopolymer concentrations, and flow channel geometries. The hydraulic conductivity control of a biopolymer-based grout material was evaluated after injection into sandy soil under confined boundary conditions. The results showed that the performance of xanthan gum injection was mainly affected by the injection pressure and pore geometry (e.g., porosity) inside the soil. Additionally, with an increase in the xanthan gum concentration, the injection efficiency diminished while the hydraulic conductivity reduction efficiency enhanced significantly. The results of this study provide the potential capabilities of injection grouting to be performed with biopolymer-based materials for field application.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66475581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modelling the hydraulic/mechanical behaviour of an unsaturated completely decomposed granite under various conditions","authors":"Xianyu Xiong, Y. Xiong, Feng Zhang","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.25.2.075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.25.2.075","url":null,"abstract":"Because the hydraulic/mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soil is more complicated than that of saturated soil, one of the most important issues in modelling unsaturated soil is to properly couple its stress-strain relationship with its water retention characteristics. Based on the results of a series of tests, the stress-strain relationship and the changes in suction and saturation of unsaturated completely decomposed granite (CDG, also called Masado) vary substantially under different loading/hydraulic conditions. To precisely model the hydraulic/mechanical behaviour of unsaturated Masado, in this study, the superloading concept was firstly introduced into an existing saturated/unsaturated constitutive model to consider the structural influences. Then a water retention curve (WRC) model considering the volumetric change in the soil, in which the skeleton and scanning curves of the water retention characteristics were assumed to shift in parallel in accordance with the change in the void ratio, was proposed. The proposed WRC model was incorporated into the constitutive model, and the validity of the newly proposed model was verified using the results of tests conducted on unsaturated Masado, including water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests. The accuracy of the proposed model in describing the stress-strain relationship and the variations in suction and saturation of unsaturated Masado is satisfactory.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66475776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modified lysmer’s analog model for two dimensional mat settlements under vertically uniform load","authors":"D. Chang, M. H. Hung, Sangseom Jeong","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.25.3.221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.25.3.221","url":null,"abstract":"A two dimensional model of linearly elastic soil spring used for the settlement analysis of the flexible mat foundation is suggested in this study. The spring constants of the soils underneath the foundation were modeled assuming uniformly vertical load applied onto the foundation. The soil spring constants were back calculated using the three-dimensional finite element analysis with Midas GTS NX program. Variation of the soil spring constants was modeled as a two-dimensional polynomial function in terms of the normalized spatial distances between the center of foundation and the analytical points. The Lysmer's analog spring for soils underneath the rigid foundation was adopted and calibrated for the flexible foundation. For validations, the newly proposed soil spring model was incorporated into a two dimensional finite difference analysis for a square mat foundation at the surface of an elastic half-space consisting of soft clays. Comparative study was made for elastic soils where the shear wave velocity is 120~180 m/s and the Poisson's ratio varies at 0.3~0.5. The resulting foundation settlements from the two dimensional finite difference analysis with the proposed soil springs were found in good agreement with those obtained directly from three dimensional finite element analyses. Details of the applications and limitations of the modified Lysmer's analog springs were discussed in this study.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66476168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physical modelling of bending moments in single piles under combined loads in layered soil","authors":"Mahdy Khari, Ali Dehghanbandaki, D. J. Armaghani","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.25.5.373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.25.5.373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66476615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interaction between rock bolt and rock bridge under tensile loading","authors":"V. Sarfarazi, Kaveh Asgari, M. Nasrollahi","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.25.6.455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.25.6.455","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is investigating the effect of loading rates on the interaction between rock bolts and rock bridges using experimental test and numerical simulation. A new test set up was developed experimentally for determination of tensile strength of bridge area. A concrete block with dimensions of 15 x 15 x 10 cm consisting non-persistent notch was prepared and subjected to tensile loading using special loading set up. The configuration of non-persistent joint was different in various samples. A 30-ton hydraulic load cell applied tensile loading to concrete complex with a high-pressure rate of 0.01 mm per second. Simultaneously with experimental test, numerical simulation was performed on the tensile behavior of non-persistent joint adjacent to rock bolt. Two sets of non-persistent joint were prepared. The first sets were similar to experimental one while, in the second sets, two edge joints with lengths of 1.5 cm, 3 cm and 4.5 cm were prepared. The angle of these joint related to horizontal axis were 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90. Also, the rock bolts adjacent to joints were simulated and were subjected to tensile loading with two high and low loading rates i.e. 0.01 mm/sec and 0.0001 mm/sec. The results showed that the crack propagation angle related to tensile load direction was decreased by decreasing the tensile loading rate. The tensile failure stress decreased by presence of pre-existing crack within the model. Tensile failure stress had minimum value whenever the angle of pre-existing crack was 0o. The numerical results were in a good accordance with experimental ones.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66476985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experimental investigation on the shear strength and deformation behaviour of xanthan gum and guar gum treated clayey sand","authors":"Susheel Kumar, E. Sujatha","doi":"10.12989/GAE.2021.26.2.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12989/GAE.2021.26.2.101","url":null,"abstract":"Soil stabilization is widely used to favourably amend the soil behaviour. The use of biopolymers to treat soil is not only an eco-friendly but is also a sustainable approach. Biopolymers, xanthan gum and guar gum are used to augment the strength of clayey sand. Xanthan gum is anionic while guar gum is non-ionic. Triaxial tests were conducted on treated soil samples to understand the effect of biopolymer treatment on clayey sand at different dosages and curing periods. Shear strength parameters –angle of internal friction and cohesion increases appreciably on treating soil with xanthan and guar gum for all dosages investigated, though angle of internal friction decreases with the curing period in case of xanthan gum treated soil. Xanthan gum performs better in enhancing the strength and deformation behaviour of the soil compared to guar gum. There is a substantial gain in early strength but as the curing period increases further, the rate of increase in strength is marginal. The deformation modulus at failure also increases with the biopolymer content. The reduction in post-peak strength of treated soil is sudden and drastic indicating brittle behavior. The energy absorption capacity of the biopolymer treated soil increases with increase in biopolymer content and curing period. The strength gain in soil can be ascribed to the formation of hydrogels that are cementitious in nature. Strength is also improved through the ionic / hydrogen bonds that are formed by biopolymer addition.","PeriodicalId":12602,"journal":{"name":"Geomechanics and Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66477665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}