FIELD STUDIES OF SINGLE POINT IMPACT ON LIQUEFIABLE SOIL FOUNDATION OF HIGHWAY

A highway in the floodplain of the Abandoned Yellow River in the north of Jiangsu Province is recently remediated to reduce liquefaction potential using the dynamic compaction（DC） method of densification of in-place soils. Firstly, the liquefaction potential of the soil at the project site is analysed according to the code of seismic de- sign. Then the in-situ single point impact tests are performed on the liquefiable soil. Settlement of crater, excess pore pressure, ground heave and lateral deformation under DC impact are measured and analyzed. Subsequently, the standard penetration test （SPT） and cone penetration test （CPT） are used for investigating the compaction ef- fectiveness. At last, the improvement effect of DC is discussed according to the technical specification of dynamic consolidation to ground treatment. The investigation results indicate that the DC technique is an effective way for remediating liquefiable soil in highway engineering practice.