{"title":"2D and 3D rock slope stability analysis in an open-pit mine","authors":"J. Soto, C. Romanel","doi":"10.1201/9780429446924-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429446924-20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"422 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120897335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behaviour of laterally loaded pile","authors":"A. Ahayan, B. Cerfontaine, F. Collin, P. Kotronis","doi":"10.1201/9780429446924-76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429446924-76","url":null,"abstract":"Monopiles have been by far the most common support structure for offshore turbines. They have always been an appropriate solution for complex site conditions. Design of monopiles is usually based on the use of nonlinear p-y curve. These curves are primordially based on the use of simple constitutive models for soil, such as Tresca criterion. Since soil behavior is highly non-linear and very complex, fundamental features of soil such as anisotropy, creep, or destructuration have to be taken into consideration. Accordingly, it is necessary to consider more complex soil behavior constitutive models. This work aims to explain, via FEM simulations, the influence of different constitutive laws for soil, on the laterally loaded pile responses. Tresca, Mohr-Coulomb criteria and Modified Cam-Clay model have been compared and their effect on p-y curve is analyzed.","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129585247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boundary stress distribution in silos filled with granular material","authors":"P. To, N. Sivakugan","doi":"10.1201/9780429446931-109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429446931-109","url":null,"abstract":"Silo, a very popular structure in powder and mining industry, is a vertical container with an open outlet at the bottom and an optional inlet at the top. The design of silo requires a deep understanding of stress distribution at boundaries in both static and dynamic condition. Prior numerical studies use Finite Element Method or Finite Difference Method which shows an increase of vertical stress before it is leveled out by friction at a shallow depth. This is understandable for continuous media because the settlement caused by vertical stress must stop at some level. Nevertheless, experimental studies show that the vertical stress of the granular and porous media still increases with a constant rate even at a much greater depth. Although the Discrete Element Method (DEM) can simulate granular materials, it has some difficulties in determination of stress distribution because it is based on contact force, not the stress. This paper employs DEM with sphero-polyhedra shapes to simulate the behaviour of granular materials in silos. The stress distribution is calculated as average values. This requires a significant number of particles. Therefore, the paper focuses on narrowly graded materials. Some correlation with experimental data has been found.","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131067720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consideration of numerical methods in next generation Eurocode 7 (EN 1997)—current state of the amendment","authors":"A. Lees, H. Walter","doi":"10.1201/9780429446924-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429446924-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132344985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Pisco, C. Fartaria, R. Tomásio, J. Costa, J. Azevedo
{"title":"Numerical analysis of an unsymmetrical railcar unloading pit and connection trench","authors":"G. Pisco, C. Fartaria, R. Tomásio, J. Costa, J. Azevedo","doi":"10.1201/9781351003629-146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351003629-146","url":null,"abstract":"A numerical analysis was performed simulating the deep excavation and dewatering effects on retaining walls of an unsymmetrical railcar unloading pit and trench. The pit has a depth of 22 meters and an internal diameter of 45 meters. The trench is non-collinear with the pit center and it has 12 m width by 122 m length. A 3D Finite Element Model using PLAXIS software was conducted in order to better estimate both general and local effects in the design of the pit’s structural elements, mainly due to the singularities introduced by the trench opening on the west side of the pit wall, as well as the trench excavation. Both geotechnical and hydrogeological characteristics of the site were taken into consideration, as well as the main construction stages, covering the excavation sequence and the groundwater inflow analysis. RÉSUMÉ: Dans cet article ont présent une analyse numérique qui a été développe pour simuler une excavation profonde et l’effet du rebattement de la nappe phréatique dans les murs de soutènement d'un puit non symétrique pour l’extraction et le stockage des minéraux avec l’aide des wagons. Avec une profondeur de 22m et un diamètre intérieur de 45m, le puit circulaire a une intersection de 12m avec une zone en couloir rectangulaire d’accès au puit, placée de façon non aligné avec le centre du puit. Un modelé 3D a été développe avec l’aide du software PLAXIS tenant l’objective d’estimer numériquement les effets locaux e globaux dans le dimensionnent des éléments structurels du puit, en particulier les effets de l ́excavation dans la zone d’ouverture correspondent à l’intersection avec le couloir d’accès. Les caractéristiques géotechniques e hydrogéologiques ont été considérés dans le modèle numérique, bien aussi comme les phases des excavations plus importants et l ́analyse de l ́entrée de l’eau à l’intérieur du puit.","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130110043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient finite-element analysis of the influence of structural modifications on traffic-induced building vibrations","authors":"P. Persson, L. Andersen","doi":"10.1201/9781351003629-196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351003629-196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116491503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhanced plasticity modelling of high-cyclic ratcheting and pore pressure accumulation in sands","authors":"H. Liu, F. Zygounas, A. Diambra, F. Pisanò","doi":"10.1201/9780429446931-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429446931-11","url":null,"abstract":"Predicting accurately the response of sands to cyclic loads is as relevant as still challenging when many loading cycles are involved, for instance, in relation to offshore or railway geo-engineering applications. Despite the remarkable achievements in the field of soil constitutive modelling, most existing models do not yet capture satisfactorily strain accumulation under high-cyclic drained loading, nor the the build-up of pore pressures under high-cyclic undrained conditions. Recently, bounding surface plasticity enhanced with the concept of memory surface has proven promising to improve sand ratcheting simulations under drained loading conditions (Corti et al. 2016). This paper presents a new model built by combining the memory surface conceptby Corti et al. (2016) with the well-known SANISAND04 bounding surface formulation proposed by Dafalias and Manzari (2004). The outcome is a new sand model that can reproduce phenomenologically the fabric evolution mechanisms governing strain accumulation under long-lasting loading histories (here up to 104 loading cycles). In undrained test simulations, the model proves capable of correctly capturing the rate of pore pressure accumulation, preventing precocious occurrence of cyclic liquefaction.","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115023724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of evolutionary algorithms in soil constitutive models","authors":"C. Pereira, J. Maranha","doi":"10.1201/9780429446931-20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429446931-20","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"211 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133579534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A relook into numerical simulations of the pressuremeter test for the calibration of advanced soil models","authors":"Q. Ong, S. Tan","doi":"10.1201/9781351003629-57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351003629-57","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107346,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123641693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}