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ABSTRACT: The use of vacuum consolidation method in Indonesia, currently was being developed enough to
overcome the problems of soft soil. A power plant project located in Muara Bakti, Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia using a
vacuum consolidation method for the preparation of Power Building, Passive Storage, Coal Crusher and Coal Storages
area. Numerical modeling with the ability to model suction pressure as the effect of vacuum process were used to
analyze the soil improvement. The phenomenon of horizontal shrinkage were successfully modeled, so that it can
explain the differences in settlement resulting from vacuum consolidation method, compared to another method of soil
improvement.
Keywords: vacuum consolidation, suction pressure, numerical modeling, horizontal shrinkage
INTRODUCTION
To overcome problem of soft soil, especially in
constructing structure in low land area of sediment zone,
vacuum consolidation method currently was being
developed in Indonesia. A number of project have been
succesfully constructed in a soft soil with this kind
improvement method. Since the method produce
settlement behaviour which was different from the
traditional one, this paper is intended to imitate the
settlement phenomenon with a numerical model.
Items
Compressibility Index
(Cc)
Coefficient of
Consolidation (Cv)
Coefficient of
Consolidation (Ch)
Void ratio eo
Unit weight w
Units
Average Values
0.65
m2/year
15
m2/year
36
ton/m
1.57
1.54
THE MODEL
The numerical model was build by Geostudio
Program SEEP/W and SIGMA/W. The parameters is
defined base by soft soil parameters in Table 1, as
follow :
Units
m/day
Average Values
2.16E-3
0.61
m2/kN
3.41E-06
Units
kN/m
kN/m2
deg
deg
Average Values
5600
25
8
8