Negative Effect of Installation on Performance of a Compaction-Grouted Soil Nail in Poorly Graded Stockton Beach Sand
Publication: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 8
Abstract
In this study, a latex membrane with a diameter of 50 mm and thickness of 0.5 mm is used to encase an injection hole. The gap between the membrane and the nail rod is fixed to achieve compaction grouting and to prevent fracturing and permeating; hence, a regular grout bulb is easily formed and locked into the soil matrix to provide a pullout force for a compaction-grouted soil nail. For this type of soil nail, two series of physical model tests for an embedded soil nail and a soil nail with a predrilled hole (the soil sample was moistened and could sustain the hole without collapsing during the placement of the nail rod) were conducted to study the influence of the installation methods on the performance of a compaction-grouted soil nail. The results of the two series of tests were compared, and some conclusions were drawn: First, the aforementioned installation methods for a soil nail had little impact on the mass of injected grout, whereas the shape of the cured grout bulb showed some differences based on the type of soil response. Second, compared with that of an embedded soil nail, the pullout force of a postplaced soil nail remarkably decreased because the hole drilled for installation led to a gap between the soil nail and the surrounding soil. In addition, the loss rate correlated with the grouting pressure (i.e., the diameter of the grout bulb). Third, because of the lower soil densification, dilation, and squeeze effect, a slower growth rate (with increasing grouting pressure) of the pullout force (i.e., resistance) was found for the postplaced soil nail relative to that of the embedded soil nail, during which the efficiency of the increasing pullout force decreased.
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Acknowledgments
The work described in this paper is partially supported by ARC Future Fellowship grant (FT140100019), State Key Laboratory for GeoMechanics and Deep Underground Engineering (China University of Mining and Technology) (SKLGDUEK1718), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51722812), the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U1834206), and the HuXiang Top Talents Gathering Program–Innovation Team (2019RS1008), for which the authors are very grateful.
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Volume 146 • Issue 8 • August 2020
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Received: Jun 13, 2019
Accepted: Mar 4, 2020
Published online: May 19, 2020
Published in print: Aug 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Oct 19, 2020
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