ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Settlement Characteristic of Unsaturated
Cohesive Soil Reinforced by CFG
Piles for High Plateau Airport
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School of Airport Engineering, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan, 618307, China
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Sichuan College of Architectural Technology, Chengdu, 610399, China
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School of Air Traffic Management, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan, 618307, China
Submission date: 2023-11-01
Final revision date: 2023-11-11
Acceptance date: 2023-11-15
Online publication date: 2024-02-26
Publication date: 2024-04-09
Corresponding author
Jun Feng
School of Airport Engineering, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan, 618307, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2024;33(3):3105-3113
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ABSTRACT
Based on the perspective of flight technology and flight safety, the unsaturated clayey foundation
soil of a high plateau airport in the mountainous area of southwest China is taken as the research object,
and the calculation method of the composite modulus of CFG pile composite foundation with the soil
between the piles as the unsaturated soil is established according to the relevant characteristics of
unsaturated soil, and the calculation method of the composite foundation’s settlement is carried out
on the basis of this method. At the same time, Plaxis finite element analysis software is used to model
the actual project and numerically analyze the settlement characteristics of the composite foundation.
Finally, the calculation results of the two methods are compared and studied with the actual settlement
monitoring values on site. The study shows that: 1) the theoretical analysis method is able to consider
the effects of pile length, pile modulus, and matrix suction in unsaturated soil of rigid piles on the
composite modulus, which is more in line with the reality than the conventional composite modulus
method that does not consider the unsaturated nature of the soil between the piles; 2) the resultant
values computed by the theoretical and numerical analysis methods recommended in this paper are
both smaller than those measured at the site but the difference is within the range of 10%, so that in the
actual plateau of the High Plains airports can choose the two analysis methods recommended in this
paper to conduct related research.