Abstract
The 2004 Niigata-ken Chuetsu earthquake in Japan caused serious damage to sewage facilities such as uplift of manholes and settlement of pavement above backfill soil for pipes. This paper deals with shake table tests in a 1-g gravity field on application of recycled materials for ground improvement to mitigation of liquefaction-induced flotation of manhole during earthquakes. The recycled materials used in tests were tire chips made of waste tires and crushed gravels made of waste reinforced concrete, and they were packed in sandbags. From the test results, it was confirmed that the recycled materials packed in sandbags could be treated as one of the countermeasures to restrain the flotation of manholes and settlement of ground surrounded by sandbags.
