《Lateral displacement of silty clay under cementfly ashgravel pilesupported embankmentsAnalytical consideration and field evidence》.pdfVIP

J. Cent. South Univ. (2015) 22: 1477−1489 DOI: 10.1007/s11771-015-2665-9 Lateral displacement of silty clay under cement−fly ash−gravel pile−supported embankments: Analytical consideration and field evidence ZHANG Chong-lei(张崇磊)1, 2 1 2 3 , JIANG Guan-lu(蒋关鲁) , LIU Xian-feng(刘先峰) , WANG Zhi-meng(王智猛) 1. Key Laboratory of High-speed Railway Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China; 2. Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia; 3. China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co. Ltd., Chengdu 610031, China © Central South University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 Abstract: Based on back analysis of lateral displacements measured in situ by using the analytical solution, a useful method for estimating stress concentration ratio of geosynthetic-reinforced and pile-supported (GRPS) embankments was proposed. In order to validate the proposed method, a full-scale high-speed railway embankment (HSRE) with four instrumented subsections over medium compressibility silty clay was constructed in three stages. The soil profile, construction procedure and monitoring of settlements and lateral displacements of the four test sections were described. The field deformation analysis results show that 1) the combined reinforcement of CFG piles and geosynthetic layer perform well in terms of reducing lateral displacements; 2) the development of lateral displacements lags behind the increase of fill load, which can be attributed to the vertical load transfer mechanism of the pile foundation; and 3) pile len