PURPOSES : Recently, there has been an increase in the use of discrete randomly distributed fiber materials for reinforcing pavement foundations. However, very limited study has been made on this from the perspective of pavement engineering. Therefore, this study evaluates the performance of soil-geofibers used in pavement foundations as well as the effects of stress dependency with various mixtures. METHODS: To estimate the behavior of soil-geofiber mixtures under traffic loadings, laboratory resilient modulus data for the mechanical characteristics of geofiber mixtures were used, and they were adopted to evaluate the structural response and analyze the stress dependency through 2-D finite element analysis. As the host materials, poorly graded and uniformly graded sand were selected, and each soil was mixed with three different types of fiber, namely monofilament, fibrillated, and tape. RESULTS: The stress dependent response on resilient modulus and Poisson’s ratio were mainly considered by conducting linear and nonlinear elastic analyses on various geofiber mixtures. As a result, it was found that the response and yield function of geofiber mixed layers in pavements were affected considerably depending on the gradation of the soils and the confinement conditions. A small change was found when the particle size was homogenized. CONCLUSIONS : From this, it can be concluded that the finite element model with stress dependency is suitable for estimating the performance on geofiber mixtures. It is also noted that all the responses of geofiber mixtures were relatively sensitive to the gradation of host soils. This indicates that the effects of the nonlinearity and stress-dependency of geofiber mixtures under repetitive loadings could be substantial.

PURPOSES: This study intends to develop an inorganic soil pavement material using industrial by-products and to evaluate its applicability as a road pavement material. METHODS: In this study, a compressive strength experiment was conducted based on the NaOH solution molarity and water glass content to understand the strength properties of the soil pavement material according to the mixing ratio of alkali activator. In addition, the strength characteristic of the inorganic soil pavement material was analyzed based on the binder content. The performance of the soil pavement was evaluated by conducing an accelerated pavement test and a falling weight deflectometer (FWD) test. RESULTS: As a result of the soil pavement material test based on the mixture ratio of alkali activator, it was identified that the activator that mixed a 10 M NaOH solution to water glass in a 5:5 ratio is appropriate. As a result of the inorganic soil pavement materials test based on the binder content, the strength development increased sharply when the amount of added binder was over 300 kg; this level of binder content satisfied 28 days of 18 MPa of compression strength, which is the standard for existing soil pavement design. According to the measured results of the FWD test, the dynamic k-value did not show a significant difference before or after the accelerated pavement testing. Furthermore, the effective modulus decreased by approximately 50%, compared with the initial effective modulus for pedestrian pavement. CONCLUSIONS: Based on these results, inorganic soil pavement can be applied by changing the mixture proportions according to the use of the pavement, and can be utilized as road pavement from light load roads to access roads.

PURPOSES : The purpose of this study is to determine the optimum addition rate of SBR latex through the evaluation of durability and strength of SBR latex applied soil pavement. Formerly used materials such as fly ash and cement in soil pavement had resulted in decreased durability due to micro crack by heat of hydration and shrinkage crack in winter. However, that agglutinated polymers help adhesion to aggregate increased comes up with preventing the crack opening when the number of capillary tubes of SBR latex get decreased in the hydration process of cement. Therefore, in this study, it is suggested that the evaluation of the field applicability of soil pavement be conducted through the performance lab test in terms of strength increment, adhesion improvement, and crack resistance based on SBR latex addition rate. METHODS: In order to evaluate the field applicability of soil pavement, SBR latex was added 0 to 3% by 1% increment, with fixed cement contents of 3% and 5%. The resistance of shear failure and crack of soil pavement were evaluated by performing the uniaxial compressive strength test and indirect tensile strength test at -20 and 20℃, respectively. RESULTSCONCLUSIONS: It was found out that from both tests, resistance of shear failure and crack were improved with increment of curing time, and especially more than 2% of SBR latex addition rate and 5% cement content gave better results.

일반적으로 도로의 하부인 노상층은 불포화토 상태로 존재하기 때문에 함수비의 변동을 예측하기 위해서는 불포화 함수특성곡선(soil-water characteristic curve)의 추정은 필수적이다. 따라서, 국내 대표적인 노상토인 다짐된 화강풍화계열 노상토를 대상으로 함수특성을 정량화하기 위하여 pressure plate 장치를 활용하여 건조 및 습윤 이력과정의 실험을 각각 수행한 후 이를 토대로 불포화토 함수특성에 대한 해석을 수행하였다. 실험결과, 화강 풍화 노상토의 함수비를 좌우하는 흡수력이 건조와 습윤 과정에 있어 서로 다른 수치를 나타내었고 흡수력에 따른 불포화 투수계수와 습윤용적 그리고 확산 등의 흐름특성을 통하여 이력(hysteresis)을 확인하였다. 이를 토대로 도로하부의 연중흡수력을 추정하였다.

1970년대 이후로 국내 건설 산업은 건설위주의 정책으로 지속적인 성장을 이루어 왔지만 이로 인한 환경문제가 심각하게 대두되고 있다. 아스팔트 및 시멘트 콘크리트포장으로 이루어진 도시지역은 열을 흡수하여 국지적인 열섬효과를 만들어 도시지역의 기온을 상승시키는 원인이 되고 있다. 이러한 문제점의 대안으로 최근에 기존 포장에 비해 흡수열량과 방출열량이 적은 흙을 주재료로 하여 특수한 경화재와의 혼합물을 사용한 도로 포장공법이 개발 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 아스팔트콘크리트와 시멘트콘크리트 및 습식교반경화토를 대상으로 시험포장을 실시하고, 현장계측을 통하여 포장형식에 따른 포장체의 온도를 측정하여 온도특성을 규명하였다. 연구 결과, 시험포장에서 계측한 결과를 분석하여 대기온도에 따른 포장표면온도와 포장체 내부에서의 온도를 추정할 수 있는 관계식을 제시하였다. 대기온도 변화에 따른 포장체 내부온도 변화는 아스팔트콘크리트포장에서 가장 큰 변화를 나타내는 반면, 습식교반경화토포장에서는 큰 변화를 보이고 있지 않다. 따라서 기존 포장에 비해 흡수열량과 방출열량이 적은 습식교반경화토를 이용하여 공원 산책로, 농로, 관광지 도로, 자전거전용 도로 등과 같은 도로에 적용하게 되면 도시지역의 기온상승을 방지함과 동시에 인체에 무해하고 환경친화적인 도로를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

관광지의 도로, 산책로 등과 같이 중차량이 통과하지 않고 많은 사람들이 통행하는 도로는 큰 내하력을 갖추지 않아도 되며, 인간공학적이고 환경친화적이어야 한다 이를 위하여 최근에 흙을 주재료로 하여 특수한 경화재와의 혼합물을 사용한 도로 포장공법이 개발되어 사용되고 있지만, 역학적인 해석과 설계가 이루어지지 않고 경험적인 방법에 의존하고 있다. 따라서 흙-경화재 혼합물의 기본적인 공학적 특성을 규명할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 흙-경화재 혼합물의 주재료에 대한 혼합비를 달리하는 일련의 배합을 실시하여 공시체를 제작하고, 이에 대하여 재령별로 강도시험을 실시함으로써 혼합비와 재령에 따른 혼합물의 역학적 특성을 규명하였다. 또한 시멘트콘크리트포장에서는 양생하는 과정에서 수화열이 발생할 뿐만 아니라 그 지지기반인 흙과의 온도에 따른 거동의 차이로 인한 공학적 문제들이 야기됨으로, 흙-경화재 혼합물과 흙의 온도 특성을 비교 분석하였다. 본 연구 결과, 혼합물은 시멘트의 증가에 따라 강도가 증가하고, 수화열을 억제하기 위하여 제한된 시멘트량에 대해서는 경화재와 물의 혼합비가 6%~8%일 때 가장 큰 강도를 나타내었다. 또한 혼합물의 강도는 14일까지는 재령에 따라 비교적 급격하게 증가하다가 그 이후에는 증가율이 감소하여 28일 후에는 증가율이 급격히 저하되었다. 그리고 본 연구에서 사용한 시멘트량에 대해서는 수화열이 매우 미미하게 나타났으며, 흙과의 온도 특성이 비슷한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 본 혼합물은 시멘트 콘크리트보다 내하력에서는 크게 못 미치지만 온도 변화에 따른 공학적 문제들을 개선할 수 있으며, 흙을 주재료로 사용하므로 경하중이나 교통량이 적은 포장도로에서 환경친화적인 포장재료로서 우수하게 사용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

Damage of pavement over corrugated steel plate culvert with shallow cover was analyzed by filed investigation and numerical analysis. Field measurement showed that the flexible culvert was within the deformation limit and was structurally stable. Numerical analysis showed that deformation of culvert at the crest during the passage of heavy vehicle was about 2.72mm while the thrust and moment within the structure was far below the allowable value. It is concluded that the pavement was damaged by the cyclic deformation of culvert by the heavy vehicle.

The purpose of this study was to develope the environmentally favorable method of roller compacted soil concrete pavement using industrial waste red mud. Red mud was the major solid waste produced in the process of alumina extraction from bauxite(Bayer process). For recycling purpose, red mud was treated and applied to use as concrete admixtures. To this end, laboratory test such as compressive strength of soil concrete, and field test such as construction characteristics of soil concrete pavement, had been conducted. From the study results, the compressive strength of soil concrete was strongly related to its matrix proportion and compaction energy. The optimum mix proportion was comprised of cement 300 kg/m3, water 110 kg/m3, fine aggregate 600 kg/m3, course aggregate 1400 kg/m3, red mud admixture 50 kg/m3 and compaction energy above 2.86 cm-kgf/cm3. The 7th-day and 28th-day mean compressive strength of soil concrete were 43.8 MPa and 53.3 MPa each under the optimum condition. Pavement application of soil concrete using red mud admixture indicated that the proposed method was simple in case of construction and showed a good surface texture.