<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>A stone column is one of the soil stabilizing methods that is used to increase strength, decrease the compressibility of soft and loose fine graded soils, accelerate a consolidation effect and reduce the liquefaction potential of soils. The columns consist of compacted gravel or crushed stone arranged by a vibrator. This paper deals with Priebe's theory (1976) on the design of an improvement factor, which belongs among the most used analytical methods and also describes the numerical and laboratory models of stone columns. The improvement factors calculated from numerical and laboratory models are compared with the improvement factors resulting from Priebe's theory.</p></abstract>

A stone column is one of the soil stabilizing methods that is used to increase strength, decrease the compressibility of soft and loose fine graded soils, accelerate a consolidation effect and reduce the liquefaction potential of soils. The columns consist of compacted gravel or crushed stone arranged by a vibrator. This paper deals with Priebe's theory (1976) on the design of an improvement factor, which belongs among the most used analytical methods and also describes the numerical and laboratory models of stone columns. The improvement factors calculated from numerical and laboratory models are compared with the improvement factors resulting from Priebe's theory.

Stone Columns - Determination of the soil improvement factor

Department of Geotechnics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 11, 813 68 Bratislava

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering

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A stone column is one of the soil stabilizing methods that is used to increase strength, decrease the compressibility of soft and loose fine graded soils,...

Stone Columns - Determination of the soil improvement factor

Published Online: Oct 12, 2011

Page range: 17 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10189-011-0014-z

Keywords
Stone column, design, laboratory model, numerical model

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Stone Columns - Determination of the soil improvement factor

Published Online: Oct 12, 2011

Page range: 17 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10189-011-0014-z

KeywordsStone column, design, laboratory model, numerical model

This content is open access.

Keywords
Stone column, design, laboratory model, numerical model