The Evaluation of Effect of Jet Grout Columns to the Settlements in Soils with Numerical Methods

Year 2024, Volume: 28 Issue: 6, 1132 - 1145

İrem Düzen , Aşkın Özocak , Sedat Sert , Ertan Bol , Eylem Arslan

https://doi.org/10.16984/saufenbilder.1301976

Abstract

Increasing population bring together the need for construction on weak soils. At this point, soil improvement methods gain importance in which the problematic properties of soils aimed to enhance. Among these, jet grout columns are widely applied method and have advantages such as increasing the bearing capacity, reducing settlements and the risk of liquefaction. In this paper, jet grout columns utilized to reduce settlements in weak soil layers and the effect of several parameters on settlement examined. The analyzes, performed with Plaxis 2D and Plaxis 3D. The jet grouts are modeled with both single columns and composite region by changing jet grout length, diameter and spacing. To assess the soft clay effect, columns were socketed into different clay layers. The results proved that improvement with jet grout reduces the settlements, but the change in diameter, length and spacing affects the results at different rates. Through 3D analysis, up to 22% reductions in settlements obtained in case where the longest columns were assigned at the lowest spacings. The most effective factor was found as spacing rather than diameter. The increase in diameter after a certain value led to lower the performance due to the group effect. In case of the composite region, 3D and 2D analyzes converge very much, so it would be practical to perform 2D analysis for the composites. However, the ones modelled with single columns predicted more settlement and remained on the safe side. Additionally, jet grout columns performed better than in weak soils.

Keywords

Composite region, Jet grout, Soil improvement, Plaxis 2D, Plaxis 3D

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