Abstract
One of the most important lessons learned from Alaska’s major earthquakes is that lateral spread of frozen ground crust overlying liquefiable soils induced extensive bridge foundation damage. A shake table experiment was performed to study the interaction mechanisms of frozen soil-pile foundation in this scenario. Data collected from the shake table experiment were presented and analyzed. Three plastic hinges formed on the model pile: one at the ground crust surface, one at the ground crust-loose sand interface induced by strong confinement of the stiff ground crust, and one within the partially liquefied medium dense sand layer induced by laterally spreading ground crust. The failure mechanisms of single piles revealed in this experiment corresponded well with pile-pile cap connection failures observed in previous earthquakes and the frozen ground crust can be thought of as acting like a natural pile cap that restricts the rotation of the single pile head. This study provided data for computer model calibration and helped gain insight into the frozen ground crust impact on the seismic performance of piles under lateral spread induced by liquefaction.
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Acknowledgments
This research was jointly sponsored by the US Department of Transportation through the Alaska University Transportation Center and the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (AK DOT&PF) under Project AUTC #410015, and partially supported by an Open Fund from the State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences (SKLFSE201306). This support is very gratefully acknowledged. The authors are especially thankful to Mr. Elmer E. Marx, Senior Bridge Engineer at the AK DOT&PF, for the thoughtful suggestions and comments he provided for this study.
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Volume 32 • Issue 4 • December 2018
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Received: Jun 10, 2017
Accepted: Jul 17, 2018
Published online: Aug 24, 2018
Published in print: Dec 1, 2018
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