Abstract
Dumping is the main disposal method of the excavated soil from underground engineering in China; however, due to a lack of construction experiences and technical standards, landslide disasters often occurred during rapid dumping of excavated soil in soft soil regions. In this paper, geotechnical tests were conducted on the excavated soil from a foundation engineering site in Hangzhou, where the excavated soil would be used to construct a piled mountain. On this basis, a numerical study was carried out to investigate the effects of the design parameters (heap height, slope gradient) and construction parameters (layer thickness, heap speed) on the dump stability and failure mode. The results show that the safety factor of the excavated soil dump decreases with increasing heap height, slope gradient, layer thickness, and heap speed. The potential slide surfaces are toe circle, and compared to layer thickness and heap speed, the heap height and slope gradient have more remarkable influence on the depth and area of potential slide mass. The heap height limit increases with a decrease in slope gradient, and the heap speed limit decreases with an increase in layer thickness. Under the premise of ensuring the slope stability, the optimal design and construction parameters were obtained, i.e., heap height 28 m, slope gradient 1:2.75, layer thickness 1.0 m, and heap speed 0.50 m/day. Compared to the original design scheme, the storage capacity increases by 20.01%, and the construction duration decreases by 30.25% in the optimal design.
Highlights
With the rapid development of China’s urbanization, a great amount of construction and demolition waste, including excavated soil, engineering mud, construction residue, demolition waste, and decoration garbage, are produced (Shang et al, 2013; Kataguiri et al, 2019; Sun, 2020)
The results show that the safety factor of the excavated soil dump decreases with increasing heap height, slope gradient, layer thickness, and heap speed
It can be found that the Fs decreases with an increase in heap height under a given slope gradient
Summary
With the rapid development of China’s urbanization, a great amount of construction and demolition waste, including excavated soil, engineering mud, construction residue, demolition waste, and decoration garbage, are produced (Shang et al, 2013; Kataguiri et al, 2019; Sun, 2020). In China, approximately 2 billion tons of excavated soil was generated in 2017 (Zhan et al, 2019). The main disposal method for excavated soil in China is dumping, which includes the traditional manner of landfilling and the newly developing way of mountain piling. Due to a lack of construction experiences and technical standards, landslide disasters often occurred during rapid dumping of excavated soil in soft soil regions of China. In 2015, a worldwide concerned disaster occurred in the excavated soil landfill of Guangming New District in Shenzhen, China. During this event, approximately 2.51 × 106 m3 of excavated soil slid out of the landfill site affecting approximately 0.38 km, destroyed 33 buildings, Design Construction Excavated Soil Dump
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