Vibration Propagation Law and Control Test of Ultra Soft Soil Ground under Impact Load

Abstract

Through in situ tests on the impact vibration of a typical muck ground treatment major project directed by the first author, the vibration propagation law under the impact load for the ultra soft soil ground is obtained, and quantitative environmental safe control distance on the vibration influence is also gained. The main results are the two aspects. (1) The attenuation law of both level and vertical peak vibration acceleration with the horizontal distance can be described well by the negative power function; and the ground vibrations caused by tamping impact can be distinguished between two types, i.e. near-field and far-field. Near-field tamping vibration influence is confined to a small range of the tamping center, which decays obviously faster than the one of far-field. (2) The radius of influence of tamping vibration depends not only on the tamping energy but also the soil type. Loose, slightly dense soft soil has a larger energy absorption capacity and a smaller effect radius of tamping vibration than the dense and hard soil; and the vibration safe control distance is determined as 27.3m in the tests according to the safe boundary determined code of industrial and civil architecture in China.