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A Ground Improvement Case Study Using Soil Replacement or Stone Columns Using Settle3 and RS3

Authors
Seok Hyeon Chai1, *, Luis Gonzalez2, Sina Javankhoshdel1
1Rocscience, Toronto, ON, Canada
2Wurster Betterground, Tampa, FL, USA
*Corresponding author. Email: Steve.chai@rocscience.com
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Seok Hyeon Chai
Available Online 8 November 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-258-3_44How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Ground improvement; stone columns; FEM; settlement analysis; Settle3
Abstract

Stone Columns were first introduced approximately 60 years ago as a technique for improving both cohesive soils and silty sands. Its construction involves the partial replacement of unsuitable soils with a pattern of compacted vertical columns of stone. In the settlement analysis software, Settle3, a Stress Reduction Method is used for computing the settlement under the composite stiffness of soil and stone columns. This study provides a settlement analysis of a case study with ground improvement using stone columns. The same model was created using a 3D FEM analysis software, RS3, to calculate the settlement. The results of the case study show a good agreement using both 3D FEM and the simplified settlement analysis using Settle3 software considering the same assumptions in both software. Also, the stress concentration ratio of stone columns and soil stiffness are also discussed in the models.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Rocscience International Conference (RIC 2023)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Engineering
Publication Date
8 November 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-94-6463-258-3_44
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2589-4943
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-258-3_44How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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