Stone column anchors are a newly developed innovative method of resisting vertical tension and compressive loads on very soft ground such as reclaimed land. In the stone column anchor system, the ground slab is connected to an anchored frustum at the base of the column by a steel bar. This enables the stone column anchor to resist tension loads, while the shaft of the stone column and the surrounding soil form a composite foundation to resist compressive loads. This paper examines the vertical compression/tension load-carrying capacity of single stone column anchors tested under repeated loading. The results show that stone column anchors can be used to provide an increased tension and compression ground load-carrying capacity. The system has been implemented on reclaimed land for the construction of a new sewage treatment plant.
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July 2006
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July 01 2006
Compression/tension load capacity of stone column anchors
K.-F. Liu, BEng;
K.-F. Liu, BEng
PhD candidate
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
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X.-Y. Xie, BEng, PhD;
X.-Y. Xie, BEng, PhD
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Professor
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
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J.-F. Zhang, MSc, PhD;
J.-F. Zhang, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Centre for Engineering and Scientific Computation, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
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X.-R. Zhu, BEng, PhD
X.-R. Zhu, BEng, PhD
Professor
Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
June 03 2005
Revision Received:
November 04 2005
Accepted:
January 17 2006
Online ISSN: 1751-8563
Print ISSN: 1353-2618
© 2006 Thomas Telford Ltd
2006
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering (2006) 159 (3): 161–165.
Article history
Received:
June 03 2005
Revision Received:
November 04 2005
Accepted:
January 17 2006
Citation
Liu K, Xie X, Zhang J, Zhu X (2006), "Compression/tension load capacity of stone column anchors". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 159 No. 3 pp. 161–165, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/geng.2006.159.3.161
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