A large amount of geotechnical investigation data is essential for the highly reliable design of geotechnical structure at a construction site. The number of geotechnical investigations, however, has been generally insufficient and spatially biased owing to economic and spatial-temporal limitations. In this study, a geotechnical three-dimensional spatial modeling was implemented using an optimized geostatistical interpolation approach at a bridge construction site in the south-central part of the Korean peninsula. The geotechnical investigation data were collected and standardized for the construction of a geo-database. For the site-specific stratification, a kriging-based integration of the geo-layers and the seismic velocity from a seismic refraction survey were applied. The value from a standard penetration test (SPT)-N of an uninvestigated location was predicted using parametric and nonparametric geostatistical methods. We accomplished three-dimensional spatial interpolations using ordinary kriging, a sequential Gaussian simulation with a normal score transformed dataset, and a sequential indicator simulation using the geodatabase. A leave-one-out cross validation was carried out to quantitatively evaluate the reliability of the three-dimensional modeling. Finally, a three-dimensional geotechnical spatial model assigned with subsurface stratification and SPT-N values was constructed using the sequential Gaussian simulation.


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    Title :

    A Three-Dimensional Geotechnical Spatial Modeling Method for Borehole Dataset Using Optimization of Geostatistical Approaches


    Additional title:

    KSCE J Civ Eng


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    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2020-03-01


    Size :

    16 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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