LATERAL MOVEMENT BEHAVIOR OF 
CEMENT COLUMN RETAINING WALL DURING CONSTRUCTION OF A RESERVOIR

LATERAL MOVEMENT BEHAVIOR OF CEMENT COLUMN RETAINING
WALL DURING CONSTRUCTION OF A RESERVOIR


Kasem Petchgate, Pornkasem Jongpradist and Prayuth Samanrattanasatien

Department of Civil Engineering,
King Mongkul's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand

ABSTRACT

The lateral movement behavior of cement column in conjunction with Pre-Cast concrete as a permanent retaining system in the EGAT's reservoir at Wang Noi power plant during the construction of embankment and reservoir, was observed and them the excavation procedure was modified due to the large lateral movement of retaining wall. With the modification, the excavation was successfully completed even though failure at the embankment occurred at one section. From the measurement results of modified construction, it is seen that the lateral displacement was very small during the construction of embankment and increased once upon the construction of reservoir and would not stop unless water was filled in. The back analyses of excavation were carried out and their results were compared with the measurement ones to confirm the effectiveness of the improvement scheme. The failure behavior of embankment due to the excavation was also evaluated and could be  likely concluded that one main reason is the increase of thickness of soft clay layer at that section.

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