Foundations in Sandy Soil by Rectangular Trenches Mehrab Jesmani Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran Jesmani@ikiu.ac.ir Arash Moghadam Fallahi Department of Civil Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran Hamed Faghihi Kashani Department of Civil Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran Hamed.Faghihey@Gmail.com ABSTRACT Wave barriers are intended to mitigate the transmission of vibrations in the soil actively or passively including open and in-filled trenches, sheet piles, etc. In most previous studies, the researchers havent reached to an agreement in effective parameters such as the height of the trenches and also the effect of these parameters on screening induced by shallow foundations. In this study, the passive screening has been evaluated in sandy soils with the help of open trenches against deep foundation vibration by ANSYS software as two-dimensional to carry out an extensive parametric study on passive isolation. Because of the assessed strain less than 10 -3 the linear soil behavior has been utilized. KEYWORDS: Passive Isolation, Vibration Reduction, RayLeigh Wave, Pile foundations, Sand soil, Rectangular trenches, Body Waves, ANSYS Program. INTRODUCTION Isolating the sensitive structures against vibrations which are undesirable and created by industrial machineries foundation, vehicle traffic, explosions, earthquakes, and may lead to fatigue and failure of these structures have became an important subject in engineering science. Generally, installing wave barriers near the sensitive structures to mitigate adverse effects of vibrating is known as passive isolation. Regarding the literature on ground-borne vibrations, Barkan (1962), as the first scientist, used screening against vibration waves with open trenches and reported that open trench dimensions are large enough relative to the wavelength of the surface motions. Neumeuer (1963) performed field tests to evaluate the effects of vibrations on a wood factory in Berlin which were created by subway by using Bentonite in-filled trenches concluding that the wave amplitude could decrease approximately 50 percent. Vol. 16 [2011], Bund. Q 1298
Woods(1968-1969) conducted a series of field tests to study the screening performance of different governing parameters of trenches in active and passive isolation system and also defined amplitude reduction Ratio (Arr) Concluding reduction of displacement amplitude could be achievable when trench height is deep enough and also the thickness of the open trenches doesnt have an obvious effect on reduction of displacement amplitudes. Woods et al (1974) simulated vibration in half-space employing the principal of holography to investigate the screening efficiency of hollow cylindrical piles as barriers in passive system. Wass (1972), Haupt (1977) and Segol et al. (1978) simulated the efficiency of distance and shape of the open trenches on amplitude reduction by using finite element method (FEM) Aboudi (1973)carried out a research to evaluate the ground surface response of wave barriers under a time-dependent surface load in elastic half-space through finite difference method (FDM) Fuyuki M, Matsumoto Y(1980)studied the efficiency of open trench barrier on reaching Rayleigh waves by using a two-dimensional model through finite difference method (FDM) May, T.W., and Bolt, B.A. (1982) conducted a research to evaluate the efficiency of open trench on compression and shear waves under the assumption of a plane strain condition. Beskos et al. (1985-1991) studied the efficiency of open, in-filled trenches isolation in continuously homogeneous and non-homogenous soils under assumption of a plain strain condition by using boundary element method (BEM) Ahmad and Al-Hussaini (1991-1996) concentrated on simplified design methodologies for vibration screening of machine foundations by trenches using a three-dimensional boundary element algorithm. Yeh.C.S et al. (1997) simulated open in-filled trenches on train induced ground motions by using a FEM analysis. Kattis et al. (1999) examined the isolation screening efficiency of pile barriers and open, in-filled trenches. They found out that trenches are more efficient than pile barriers, except for the vibration with large wavelength, where deep trenches are impractical. Hollow piles were observed to be more efficient than concrete piles. Shrivastava (2002) conducted a research to evaluate the effectiveness of open and filled trenches for screening Rayleigh waves because of impulse loads in a 3D FE model. Shen-Haw Jo, Hung-Ta Lin (2004) worked on analysis of train-induced vibrations and vibration reduction schemes above and below critical Rayleigh wave speeds by using finite element method (FEM). The results show that the foundations of adjacent buildings also have effects on vibration screening. Adam M., Estorff O. (2005) evaluated the efficiency of open and filled trenches in reducing the six-storey building vibrations due to passing trains using a two-dimensional FEM Analysis. The results show an 80% reduction in the building vibrations and internal forces. El Naggar (2005) inspected the effectiveness of open and filled trenches in reducing the pulse-induced waves for shallow foundations resting on an elastic half-space by using ANSYS software. Because of the two-dimensional model, the behavior of wave motions wasnt obvious enough behind the trenches. Celebi E. et al. (2006) presented two mathematical models and numerical techniques for solving problems associated with the wave propagation in a track and an underlying soil owing to passing trains in the frequency domain. The results show that an open trench with appropriate geometric properties can noticeably reduce the wave frequencies. G.Y. Gao et al. (2006) explored the efficiency of pile barriers on reduction of ground vibrations by using three-dimensional model. The similarity of thin piles and open trenches in vibration screening isolation was reported and also the results show that the net distance between piles is an important factor in reducing vibration. Karlstrom and Bostrom (2007) examined the efficiency of active screening isolation in one and two sides of a train railway on reduction of vibration amplitudes. The results showed that using open trenches could noticeably reduce the vibration amplitudes especially at frequencies in the range of 2-8 Hertz, Tsai et al. (2007) - 1299 -
conducted a numerical research using three-dimensional BEM to evaluate the active screening isolation of pile barriers in shallow foundations against vertical loading. They also examined the effectiveness of pile dimensions, wave frequencies, screening location and pile materials on active screening isolation. They reported that steel pipe piles are the most effective screening and concrete hollow pile barriers can be ineffective due to its stiffness, they added that the effectiveness of pile is more important than the distance between piles in pile barriers isolation. Jesmani et al. (2008) explored the efficiency of geometrical properties of an open trench in the ground vibration active isolation of deep foundations resting on a homogenous half-space clay soil by using a three- dimensional finite element method (FEM). Depending on the obtained results, there is an optimal ratio of trench depth to pile length and installing a deeper trench is uneconomically practical. The efficiency of trench in very deep pile foundations majorly is independent on trench depth and location. From the above review, researchers mainly focused on active isolations to reduce the vibration of shallow foundations by using open and in-filled trenches in which the Rayleigh waves play an important role in transmission of ground vibration. They mostly investigated the vibration reduction in cohesive soils. In this study, however, the ground passive vibration isolation of deep foundations, generating Rayleigh waves, has been investigated in sandy soils. PROPAGATION AND ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS OF DEEP FOUNDATIONS The waves which are produced from deep pile foundations in the ground are elastic waves and they are in the form of shear waves, compression waves and surface waves (Figure1) (Attewell and Farmer, 1973) Vertically polarized shear waves are generated by soil-shaft contact which propagates radially from the shaft on a cylindrical surface; meanwhile, compression and shear waves propagate radially in all directions from the toe on a spherical wave front especially at the pile toe, and Rayleigh waves propagate radially on a cylindrical wave front along the surface. In elastic half space, both Rayleigh and body waves decrease in amplitude by increasing the distance from the pile foundation because of the geometrical damping.
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Figure 1: Wave propagation induced by deep foundation (Attewell and Farmer, 1973) Wolf (1994)theoretically presents an equation between attenuation of ground vibration in the far field and the distance from vibration source; r -n which r is the distance and n is the geometrical attenuation coefficient. The latter is equal to 0.5 for surface waves propagating on a cylindrical wave front and equal to 1 for body waves propagating on a spherical wave front in the interior of the half space and equal to 2 for body waves propagating along the surface. PROBLEM DEFINITION AND ASSUMPTIONS In two-dimensional model the thickness of foundation is assumed 1.5m in order to be satisfied with the foundation rigidity under compressive loads and evaluated under assumption of isotropic and homogenous with linear soil behavior for low deformations. A rigid concrete (table1) of a width of 4m (B f ),with 3 piles of diameter of 70cm and various length (D) resting on a soil layer with dynamically and statically different characteristics (table2,3) of a limited thickness underlain by a hard stratum at a depth of H m and Length L m is subjected to a harmonic (f = 50 Hz) compressive concentrated load P 0 sin(t) (Figure 2) an open trench of depth H and width w is located at a distance of L from the edge of the foundation Table 4)
Table 1: Model concrete properties Youngs Modulus Poissons Ratio Density Material Damping E s u p s
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Table 2: Static properties of the sandy soils Youngs Modulus Poissons Ratio Specific Weight Density Material Damping Soils Mechanical Parameters E s u y s p s C q Soil ( hN m 2 ) - ( hN m 3 ) ( hg m 3 ) - ( hN m 2 ) Degree (1) 30 000 0.35 17.5 1783.89 5% 10 30 (2) 50 000 0.35 19 1936.80 5% 10 40
Table 3: Dynamic properties of the sandy soils Dynamical Properties 6 x
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(1) 16000 91 0.936 85 (2) 27000 118 0.936 110
Table 4:Geometric Properties of the trench and Deep foundation Explanation Value Trench Depth 10,15,20,25,30 Pile Length(m) 0,5,10,15,20 Trench Location(m) 20,35,50,70 Trench Width(m) 1
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Figure 2: Problem definition of passive isolation by open trench GEOMETRIC MODEL In order to reduce the computation time and in accordance with the axisymmetric of the actual model is built in two-dimensional model. To prevent any wave reflection from the base of model, the depth of model is not less than 30m (Jesmani 2008). FINITE ELEMENT MODEL STRATEGIES The properties which affect the wave propagation in low strain are Stiffness, Damping, Poisson, Ratio and Density. Stiffness and damping are more important and effective than other properties because the predicted strains are lower than 10 -3 ; therefore, linear elastic is applied to simulate the soil behavior and the above parameters are involved (Figure 3) ( Ishihara. K, 1996). In two-dimensional model the computation is done under the assumption of plain strain condition. To simulate the behavior of soil in places which we have stress concentration and we need exact strains, two dimensional PLANE82, In places which the strains and stresses gradient dont play an important role in results, two-dimensional PLANE42, and for simulating the behavior of concrete foundation, two-dimensional plane82 have been employed. To evaluate the behavior of soil and the foundation such as sliding or any probable separation at the soil structure interface, two-dimensional surface-to-surface contact elements (TARGE169, CONTA171) have been employed. Because of the rigidity of the foundation compared with the underlying soil, the soil surface and pile are taken as contact surface and target surface. Normal contact stiffness and maximum contact friction coefficient are presumed to be equal to 1 and 0.6 respectively. PLANE42 is defined by four nodes having two degrees of freedom at each node and PLANE82 is the developed form of PLANE42 with eight nodes(figure4)and all of them have plasticity, creep, swelling, stress stiffening, large deflection and large strain capabilities (ANSYS Manual). H m
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Figure 3 : Soil behavior models in accordance with magnitude of strain
Figure 4: provided modeling elements (L:PLANE42 R:PLANE82) MESHING AND BOUNDARY CONDITION The mesh dimension of 0.25 times of the shortest Rayleigh waves length have been taken with loading frequency equal to 50 Hz near the foundation and 1.5 times of the longest Rayleigh waves length have been taken with loading frequency equal to 2Hz ( 1 SS , Rayleigh wave length) for other elements. For distant elements from the trench outer edge, the element size increase gradually. Boundary conditions are defined to be restrained in the X and Y direction. The hard stratum underlying the soil layer has been defined to be a rigid boundary. Meshing method is shown in Figure 5.
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The vertical and horizontal axes illustrate the Arr (Woods 1968-1969) and trench location normalized by Rayleigh wave length respectively. RESULTS FROM THE FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS Woods (1986-1969) put forward Arr which is a ratio of amplitude with trench to amplitude without trench for assessing trench effectiveness.
To assess the screening effectiveness of trench, parameter Aarr which is the average of amplitude reduction ratio is employed and its calculated along all radial lines near the trench and in the length of one Rayleigh wave length. Aarr= 1 n Aii n =1 i where, i= is the radial distance between the outer edge of the foundation and trench. n= is the number of studied points along the radial distances. The curves which illustrate the changes of Aarr against the trench location are normalized by trench depth. EFFECT OF TRENCH DEPTH The effect of trench depth has been illustrated in figures7 through 12.These figures illustrate: - Increasing the depth of trench in passive screening, cause a decrease in Arr and this is a tangible behavior that is reported in many published researches. - In comparison to these figures its observed that by increasing the length of the piles, the diagrams flush with each other and show that by increasing the length of the piles, the distance between trench and vibration source can be avoided. - In a constant depth of trench, in all figures by increasing the quantity of L, Arr increases, and the optimal L is near to 50m which is 0.08 B f and by going far from this value (L=0.08 B f ) the trench will be useless.
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Figure 7: Effect of trench depth (D=0, Loading frequency=50Hz,Soil 1)
Figure 8: Effect of trench depth (D=10, Loading frequency=50Hz,Soil 1) Pile's length (D) =0 m 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Depth of trench (m) A v e r a g e
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r a t i o D=0 ,L=20 D=0 ,L=35 D=0 ,L=50 D=0 ,L=70 Poly. (D=0 ,L=20) Poly. (D=0 ,L=35) Poly. (D=0 ,L=50) Poly. (D=0 ,L=70) Pile's length (D) =10 m 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Depth of trench (m) A v e r a g e
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Figure 9: Effect of trench depth (D=15, Loading frequency=50Hz,Soil 1)
Figure 10: Effect of trench depth (D=0, Loading frequency=50Hz, Soil 2) Pile's length (D) =15 m 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Depth of trench (m) A v e r a g e
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r a t i o D=15 ,L=20 D=15 ,L=35 D=15 ,L=50 D=15 ,L=70 Poly. (D=15 ,L=20) Poly. (D=15 ,L=35) Poly. (D=15 ,L=50) Poly. (D=15 ,L=70) Pile's length (D) =0 m 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Depth of trench (m) A v e r a g e
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Figure 11: Effect of trench depth (D=10, Loading frequency=50Hz, Soil2)
Figure 12: Effect of trench depth (D=15, Loading frequency=50Hz, Soil2)
EFFECT OF TRENCH LOCATION As can be seen in figures13 through 18, when the depth of the trench is approximately near the pile length (D=10), there is a minimum Aarr within the boundary of 4-6 normalized trench location ( I E , ), and by increasing the depth of the trench into 20m and 25m the minimum Aarr takes place within the boundary of 2-3 and 0.5-1.5 normalized trench location ( I E , ) respectively. Hence, by increasing the depth of the trench related to the pile length, Aarr decreases by decreasing the distance between foundation and trench (L) Thus, for Pile's length (D) =10 m 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 0.80 0.90 1.00 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Depth of trench (m) A v e r a g e
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r a t i o D=10 ,L=20 D=10 ,L=35 D=10 ,L=50 D=10 ,L=70 Poly. (D=10 ,L=20) Poly. (D=10 ,L=35) Poly. (D=10 ,L=50) Poly. (D=10 ,L=70) Pile's length (D) =15 m 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Depth of trench (m) A v e r a g e
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passive screening in the case of HD the trench location 4< I E , <6 is highly recommended to obtain an ideal vibration reduction.
Figure 13: Effect of trench Location (H=10,Loading frequency=50Hz,Soil 1)
Depth of trench= 10 (m) 0.84 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.92 0.94 0.96 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 Normalized trench location (L/H) A v e r a g e
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r a t i o D=0 ,H=10 D=5 ,H=10 D=10 ,H=10 D=15 ,H=10 Poly. (D=0 ,H=10) Poly. (D=5 ,H=10) Poly. (D=10 ,H=10) Poly. (D=15 ,H=10) Depth of trench= 20 (m) 0.68 0.70 0.72 0.74 0.76 0.78 0.80 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 Normalized trench location (L/H) A v e r a g e
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Depth of trench= 25 (m) 0.56 0.57 0.58 0.59 0.60 0.61 0.62 0.63 0.64 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 Normalized trench location (L/H) A v e r a g e
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r a t i o D=0 ,H=25 D=5 ,H=25 D=10 ,H=25 D=15 ,H=25 Poly. (D=0 ,H=25) Poly. (D=5 ,H=25) Poly. (D=10 ,H=25) Poly. (D=15 ,H=25) Depth of trench= 10 (m) 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 Normalized trench location (L/H) A v e r a g e
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Figure 18: Effect of trench Location (H=25, Loading frequency=50Hz, Soil 2) EFFECT OF PILE LENGTH Figures 19 through 24 illustrate the effect of pile length on Arr and as a result it can be reported that: For pile length D< E 2 , ; there is a reduction in Aarr and it shows the significant function of open trench screening. For the pile length D> E 2 , ; A: For the trenches near vibration source (deep foundations), increasing in the pile length could have a significant effect on Aarr decrease. B: For the farther trenches, increasing in pile length could have a significant effect on decreasing the function of trench barriers (increase in Aarr) and it can be as the result of decreasing in wave amplitude far from the vibration source. Depth of trench= 20 (m) 0.68 0.70 0.72 0.74 0.76 0.78 0.80 0.82 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 Normalized trench location (L/H) A v e r a g e
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r a t i o D=0 ,H=20 D=5 ,H=20 D=10 ,H=20 D=15 ,H=20 Poly. (D=0 ,H=20) Poly. (D=5 ,H=20) Poly. (D=10 ,H=20) Poly. (D=15 ,H=20) Depth of trench= 25 (m) 0.57 0.58 0.59 0.60 0.61 0.62 0.63 0.64 0.65 0.66 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 Normalized trench location (L/H) A v e r a g e
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r a t i o D=0 ,H=25 D=5 ,H=25 D=10 ,H=25 D=15 ,H=25 Poly. (D=0 ,H=25) Poly. (D=5 ,H=25) Poly. (D=10 ,H=25) Poly. (D=15 ,H=25) Vol. 16 [2011], Bund. Q 1312
Figure 20: Effect of pile length (H=15, Loading frequency=50Hz, Soil 1) Depth of trench =10 (m) 0.84 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.92 0.94 0.96 0 5 10 15 20 Pile Length (m) A v e r a g e
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L=20 L=35 L=50 L=70 Linear (L=20) Linear (L=35) Linear (L=50) Linear (L=70) Depth of trench =15 (m) 0.76 0.78 0.80 0.82 0.84 0.86 0.88 0 5 10 15 20 Pile Length (m) A v e r a g e
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Figure 22: Effect of pile length (H=10, Loading frequency=50Hz, Soil 2) Depth of trench =20 (m) 0.68 0.70 0.72 0.74 0.76 0.78 0.80 0 5 10 15 20 Pile Length (m) A v e r a g e
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L=20 L=35 L=50 L=70 Linear (L=20) Linear (L=35) Linear (L=50) Linear (L=70) Depth of trench =10 (m) 0.00 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 0 5 10 15 20 Pile Length (m) A v e r a g e
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Figure 24: Effect of pile length (H=20, Loading frequency=50Hz, Soil 2) EFFECT OF SOIL PROPERTIES Figure 25 shows that increasing the Young's modulus lead to an increase in Aarr and the steep of this increase in relation with Aarr increase is about 5 percent. This increase in stiff soils can be focused on as the result of damping decrease and also as the result of wave velocity increase which leads to an increase in Raleigh wave length. Depth of trench =15 (m) 0.76 0.78 0.80 0.82 0.84 0.86 0.88 0.90 0.92 0 5 10 15 20 Pile Length (m) A v e r a g e
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L=20 L=35 L=50 L=70 Linear (L=20) Linear (L=35) Linear (L=50) Linear (L=70) Depth of trench =20 (m) 0.68 0.70 0.72 0.74 0.76 0.78 0.80 0.82 0 5 10 15 20 Pile Length (m) A v e r a g e
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Figure 25: Effect of soil properties EFFECT OF LOADING TIME Generally, in this model increasing the loading time until 1.5s leads to an increase in Aarr and upper amounts of loading time dont have any effects on Aarr, as can be seen in figure 26.
Figure 26: Effect of loading time CONCLUSIONS In this research, a two-dimensional finite element analysis has been conducted to evaluate the effects of passive open-trench screening system on decreasing the amplitude of Rayleigh waves by employing ANSYS computer program and the following conclusions could be distilled: Soil Chart D10 L50 H30 0.41 0.45 0.48 0.40 0.41 0.42 0.43 0.44 0.45 0.46 0.47 0.48 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 Soil Number A v e r a g e
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f a c t o r E=30 Mpa ,=30 E=40 Mpa ,=35 E=50 Mpa ,=40 D=10,L=50,H=30,Frequency=5Hz 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Time( Second ) A v e r a g e
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