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Combination of Stone Column and Prefabricated Vertical Drain for Shore Protection Foundation
Nurharnani Hassan
Technical Engineer, Menard Geosystems Sdn. Bhd. Malaysia E-mail: nanie@menard-asia.com
Kenny Yee
Regional Director, Menard Geosystems Sdn. Bhd. Malaysia E-mail: kenny@menard-asia.com ABSTRACT: Conventional structural support involved higher cost and not very practical to utilize in certain ground condition. Due to this reason, ground improvement works has been chosen as alternative solution to replace the conventional structural support solution. In most cases, it proves to be more economical and viable solution to be adopted. Application of ground improvement works can be applied to support railways and road embankments, retaining wall, industrial warehouse and commercial buildings, reclaimed platform (harbour, container terminal), sewerage plant, tank foundation and shore protection foundation. The success of the ground improvement works depends on many factors from planning, investigation, analysis, design, specification of works, construction and closed supervision by design consultants. Flaws in any of the above stages would compromise the effectiveness of a ground improvement. The main function of ground improvement are (1) to reduce settlement (2) accelerate the rate of consolidation (3) increase bearing capacity (4) improve stability and (5) resist liquefaction. Due to certain performance criteria and site condition, combination of ground improvement methods shall be done to achieve the effectiveness of this technique. This paper presents the case study of combination of stone column (SC) and prefabricated vertical drain (PVD) for shore protection foundation at A3 Island, Danga Bay, Malaysia. In this paper it demonstrates the design aspects of the combination of SC and PVD treatment as composite and consolidation treatment for the unfavorable ground condition, installation process and the verification of the performance via a comprehensive instrumentation scheme. Keyword: stone column; prefabricated vertical drain; instrumentation work
method will covers both type of soil condition (K.Yee and T.A.Ooi, 2008). Therefore, the selection of one or combination of techniques can be applied to fulfill the project requirement if the soil condition is varying much on site. Each method of ground improvement has its own merits and limitation.
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Rubble pitching wall consists of:0.75 m base slab of rubble wall 4 m height of rubble pitching with 6 x 9 to be laid single layer with cement mortar (20 N/mm2) rip rap were installed in front of rubble wall structure The function of rip rap is to prevent rubble wall from scouring impact of sea water. The length of the proposed shore protection works is approximately 1,680 m with width of 8 m. Total treatment area is approximately 13,440 m2. Due to unfavorable soil condition and economic reasons, the Engineer has proposed to adopt ground improvement method (stone column) as the foundation of shore protection works rather than conventional structural support (pile foundation). Stone column and prefabricated vertical drain are the most common techniques applied in Malaysia for improvement of poor soil condition. The main function of stone column is:to improve bearing capacity in weaker soil increase and improve stability problem as a drainage for dissipation of excess pore water pressure and accelerate the rate of consolidation act as reinforcement column elements with carrying higher imposed load
2.2 Pre-Treatment Test Results from the in-situ tests were interpreted in conjunction with the borehole available along the treatment area. After comparing borehole and in-situ tests, results of in-situ test were utilized in design stage. Based on the Cone Penetration test (CPT) and
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Pressuremeter test (PMT), the treatment area can be divided into 2 different zones. Zone 1 covers 5 nos. of CPT test (i.e., CPT5, CPT6, CPT7, CPT8, and CPT9) and 3 nos. of PMT test (refer to PMT3, PMT4 and PMT5). Summary of the in-situ tests shows the subsoil consist mainly sand and clay. In the technical analysis, the high tide level is located about RL+1.9 m and low tide level is located at RL-1.7 m (0 m CD). Summary of the in-situ test shows that the upper 1.5 m material is very loose sand with cone resistance value, qc of 1.5 MPa and the harmonic mean pressuremeter modulus, Ep of 12 bar. This is the filled sand platform. At the depth of 1.5 m to 4 m, the subsoil can be considered as soft to firm clay with cone resistance, qc of 0.5 MPa and the pressuremeter modulus, Ep of 15 bar. This is followed by very loose silty sand with cone resistance of 1.5 MPa at 4 m to 10 m deep before firm clay is detected at depth of 10 m to 19 m with cone resistance, qc of 1.3 MPa and pressuremeter modulus, Ep of 36 bar. Summary of subsoil profile for Zone 1 is illustrated in Figure 4.
The ground condition for Zone 2 is worse than Zone 1. It can be summarized that Zone 2 area consists a very thick soft compressible soil layer. Thickness of soft soil is estimated to be about 10-13 m. A total of 8 nos. of CPT were conducted (i.e., namely CPT1, CPT2, CPT3, CPT4, CPT10, CPT11, CPT12 and CPT13) and 4 nos. of PMT (i.e., refer to PMT1, PMT2, PMT6 and PMT7). Taking the results of all tests, the upper 2 m of subsoil can be identified as the sand blanket (very loose sand with cone resistance, qc of 1.5 MPa) placed as working platform for ground improvement works. Subsoil is considered as soft clay from depth of 2 m to 15 m with cone resistance value, qc of 0.25 MPa. Finally, the firm layer is detected beyond the soft clay layer with cone resistance, qc of 1.5 MPa before test stopped. Figure 5 show the summary of generalized soil profile for Zone 2.
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method, the vibroflot penetrates to specified depth under its own weight with water jets removing fines to make an annulus. With the water flow reduce, stone is introduce down the annulus and compacted in short lifts to build up the column. The process is continued to the surfaces. The complete process of wet method stone columns is illustrated in Figure 6.
(A.Aruljah et al., 2007). Figure 8 show the installation process of PVD works.
Figure 8. Complete process of prefabricated vertical drain works Figure 6. Stone column using installation of top feed wet method (replacement method)
While in the bottom feed dry method, the vibroflot penetrates to specified depth under self-weight with the aid of compressed air and vibration to form a hole. Stones are placed in the feed hopper and after reaching the required depth, stones are discharged and compacted by surging movement of the vibroflot. By the continuous addition of stones, a dense column of stones is constructed, which is tightly interlocked with the surrounding soil. Figure 7 shows the complete process stone column using bottom feed dry method.
Figure 7. Stone column installation using bottom feed dry method (displacement method)
Figure 9. Typical embankment geometry and rubble pitching wall to be constructed on treatment area
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umn length varies from 8 m to 15 m depends on the soil condition. Both analyses shows similar result. The total settlement of the ground treated with stone column for the worse case (water level at low tide level) is estimated to be about 40 cm. In order to achieve the design criteria, prefabricated vertical drain was introduced. The design for prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) is following the Barrons solution and Carillos equation for the vertical consolidation drains. Prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) with spacing of 1 m square grid are proposed where soft cohesive deposit is encountered. The treatment length for PVD varies from 12 m to 15 m. The PVDs are installed to speed up the consolidation process of the cohesive deposit. In order to reduce the magnitude of settlement during rubble pitching wall construction and post rubble pitching wall construction, a surcharge of 1 m was proposed. The target degree of consolidation for PVD at 1 m spacing is U = 90%. Based on 90% of average degree of consolidation and 1 m surcharge over a 5-month consolidation period, the induced settlement is about 36 cm. This will leave behind a residual settlement of about 4 cm. Figure 10 and Figure 11 show the cross section and plan view of combination of stone column and prefabricated vertical drain method. Since presence of soft clay is quite thick which is about 13 m depth, PVD is really necessary to speed up the consolidation process.
Table 2: Soil properties used in Plaxis Soil type c Eoed ____________ _____________ 3 kPa kPa kN/m ______________________________________________ Embankment fill 20 5 30 20,000 Very loose sand 18 1 32 4,500 Soft sandy clay 16 4 25 1,400 Firm sandy clay 19 9 28 8,250 Concrete base 20 39,000,000 Rubble pitching 22 1 38 250,000 Rip rap 22 1 38 60,000 Stone Column 20 10.5 38.5 16,530 _____________________________________________
Based on the analysis with 1 m surcharge but without PVD, the calculated factor of safety (FOS) for short term and long term for the rubble pitching wall is approximately 1.40 and 1.70 respectively as shown in Figure 12(a) and (b). Hence, satisfying the requirement of FOS = 1.25 for short term and 1.50 for long term.
Figure 12 (b). FOS long term for SC treatment Figure 10. Cross section of combination SC & PVD
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In this method, water jetting is used to assist penetration and stone is fed from the top of the vibrator. A 60 ton crawler crane is used to support the assembly and penetration to the required depth is assisted by the combined action of vibrations and high pressure water jets placed at the tip vibrator. After reaching the required depth, the water jetting is reduced until a small upward flow around the annulus of the vibroflot is observed. At this point, a small quantity of stone aggregate (normally 25 to 75 mm) is introduced using excavator and the vibroflot is lifted and lowered until the stone charge is fully compacted at the tip of the vibroflot. The action is repeated in 0.5 m - 1.0 m lifts until the stone column is formed to the surface. Compacted stone columns are constructed to effect stabilization of the treated ground.
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8 CONCLUSION
A combined ground improvement works using stone columns and prefabricated vertical drains has been used to treat the problematic soil at A3 Island, Danga Bay. From the monitoring results the measured settlement for rubble pitching wall after construction meets the design criteria. The slope stability analysis also shows that the factors of safety for both short and long terms are within the allowable limit. In this project, a combination of stone column and prefabricated vertical drains has proven to be more cost effective and cheaper than the conventional piling solution. It eliminates the need of a continuous RC slab or individual pile cap, cutting and lengthening of pile, reinforcement for pile cap and other related works to a structural solution. The construction of the rubble pitching wall commenced immediately after completion of the ground improvement works without any stage construction.
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