본 연구에서는 연약지반을 개량하기 위해 제한성을 가지고 있으나 연약지반 침하예측에 사용되고 있는 미소 변형률기법과 보다 연약지반의 실제 압밀거동에 부합하는 것으로 알려진 유한 변형률기법을 이용하여 배수재가 타설된 연약지반의 압밀거동에 대한 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 유한요소해석은 지반조건, 하중재하조건 등 조건별로 연약지반의 압밀거동에 대하여 수행하였으며 그 결과를 비교 분석하여 수치해석 기법에 따른 영향을 파악하고자 하였다.

More than 45 million tons of marine clay is dredged in the western and southern sea every year in Korea. Dredged soils, which are relatively easily supplied, have been known as an economical fill material for the construction of airports, ports, and industrial land. However, dredged soils can no longer be used as a construction material because they contain various types of heavy metals and organic pollutants. If an electric field is applied to dredged sediments, various phenomena such as electrophoresis, electro-osmosis, electro-migration, electrolysis occur because the surface of marine clay is negatively charged. The interpretation of sedimentation and self-weight consolidation is very important because this behavior is closely related to the stabilization of dredged sediments and the landfilling period. The analytical solution for the calculation of excess pore-water pressure is obtained by determining the initial and boundary conditions. Then, the surface settlement and density profiles are predicted by using this analytical solution. The analytical solution from Esrig’s one-dimensional electrokinetic consolidation theory and this study’s numerical simulation with mass conservation more easily predicted the electrically induced consolidation behavior of dredged sediments than the non-linear finite strain consolidation theory.