Load-carrying Capacity Enhancement of Skirted Foundation Element By Electrokinetics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The objective of this study is to enhance the load-carrying capacity of skirted foundations embedded in marine deposits by electrokinetics (EK). The focus of improvement is at the interface between the soil and foundation. A series of laboratory tests was performed in an EK-cell to determine the optimal configuration of the electrical field surrounding a skirted foundation. Two soils were tested: Yulchon clay (a natural marine sediment) and Welland sediment (a river sediment mixed with artificially prepared seawater). In each test, a steel plate was embedded in the soil to represent an element of a skirted foundation. Electrodes were installed in the vicinity of the steel plate and a voltage, either constant or intermittent, was applied over a period of time. The load-carrying capacity of the steel plates and the undrained shear strength of the adjacent soil were measured after electrokinetic treatment. The effect of the electrode layout and voltage application was evaluated through a comprehensive experimental program. It is shown that, by optimizing the electrode arrangement and implementing the polarity reversal, the load-carrying capacity of the steel plates increased up to 4 times, and that soil shear strength increased up to 3 times after sustained application of a DC voltage of 5.2 V for 14 days. The results obtained in this study lead to a large-scale laboratory study and will have the potential to be applied in offshore engineering practice.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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