Research on the Application of Foamed Lightweight Concrete (FLC) in the Construction of Highway Soft Soil Foundation Engineering with Buried High-Pressure Gas Pipes
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Abstract
In order to study the feasibility and superiority of foam lightweight concrete (FLC) for existing buried high-pressure gas pipeline section under soft soil roadbed, this paper takes the buried existing high-pressure gas pipeline section under the second phase of the Foqingcong Expressway project as the engineering background, and designs two soft soil roadbed treatment schemes, the pile composite foundation method, and the foam lightweight concrete (FLC). Through bearing capacity and settlement calculations, it was confirmed that FLC is feasible for soft soil roadbeds in the existing buried high-pressure gas pipe section, and the three major aspects of analysis, namely the safety benefits, economic benefits and ecological benefits based on the LCA carbon emission calculation, showed that the FLC soft soil roadbed treatment method can reduce the cost by 12% compared with the pile composite foundation treatment method, which is about 1.07 million RMB, and the carbon emission is reduced by about one third. This is a clear benefit advantage. Finally, the feasibility of FLC for buried high-pressure gas pipe sections under both soft soil roadbeds was further verified by field measurements of settlement and earth pressure, which has broad application prospects.
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OpenAlex topics: Grouting, Rheology, and Soil Mechanics · Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures · Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
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Affiliations
School of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Hunan Huda Construction Supervision Co., Ltd., Changsha 410082, China
China Railway Seventh Bureau Group Third Engineering Co., Ltd., Xi’an 710032, China
Funding
National Key Research and Development Program of China
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