Settlement Prediction under a Combined Vacuum and Surcharge Preloading in New Reclaimed Land

Yingjie Wei, Yuxin Jie, Huancun Liu and Alessandro Rasulo

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2022, vol. 2022, 1-9

Abstract: Rapid settlement assessment in new reclaimed land is important to follow-up engineering construction. Vacuum-surcharge preloading combined with prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) is a high-efficient and widely used reclaimed soil-reinforced method. This work focuses on micro-macro mechanism of vacuum and surcharge preloading, and the settlement characteristics of subsoil subjected to vacuum-surcharge pressure are discussed. The surcharge preloading is applied to soil particles directly by vertical stress, and the effective stress increases directly by direct contact among particles. However, vacuum pressure increases the effective stress and decreases the pore pressure at the same time. In new reclaimed land, the proposed method is working on the assumption that the new reclaimed land full of water with particles arranging in a loose state of simple cube (SC) way before treatment, while a dense state of terse tetrahedron (TH) way, a stable structure of soil, after treatment. An approach for calculating the final settlement of new reclamation land is derived in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) perspective, respectively. Meanwhile, this method has been preliminarily applied to two case histories reported in the literature. Results show that 2D estimation method might be more useful for the preliminary assessment of settlement under a combined vacuum and surcharge preloading in new reclaimed land.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1155/2022/4599613

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