Numerical modeling of large deformations in soil structure interaction problems using FE, EFG, SPH, and MM-ALE formulations

Present design practice for soil structure interaction (SSI) problems most frequently assumes linear elastic properties of the soil and disregards geometrical nonlinearities, treating the displacements as small. However, there are numerous problems that require a more advanced approach. This paper p...

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Veröffentlicht in:Archive of Applied Mechanics 2014-05, Vol.84 (5), p.743-755
1. Verfasser: Bojanowski, Cezary
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Present design practice for soil structure interaction (SSI) problems most frequently assumes linear elastic properties of the soil and disregards geometrical nonlinearities, treating the displacements as small. However, there are numerous problems that require a more advanced approach. This paper presents an application of such numerical approaches to modeling SSI problems in the presence of large soil deformations. Simulations using Lagrangian finite element, element-free Galerkin, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and multi-material arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (MM-ALE) approaches were performed for two previously conducted experimental tests: (1) large-scale steel pad penetration into silty clay with sand and (2) standard cone penetration test performed on poorly graded sand. In this paper, the usefulness and the efficiency of the methods was assessed in terms of modeling robustness and computational cost. Results show that to some extent each of the utilized methods is able to capture large deformations. However, the most robust turned out to be SPH and MM-ALE methods as the only two that were successful in simulating both experiments.
ISSN:0939-1533
1432-0681
DOI:10.1007/s00419-014-0830-5