| Title: | Advances and uncertainties in the design of anchored retaining walls using numerical modelling |
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| Authors: | ID Szavits-Nossan, Antun (Author)
ID Fakulteta za gradbeništvo, prometno inženirstvo in arhitekturo Univerze v Mariboru (Copyright holder) |
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| Files: |  Acta_geotechnica_Slovenica_2008_Szavits-Nossan_Advances_and_uncertainties_in_the_design_of_anchored_retaining_walls_using_numerical_mode.pdf (426,36 KB)
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 http://fgserver3.fg.um.si/journal-ags/2008-1/article-1.asp
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Scientific work |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FGPA - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture
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| Abstract: | This paper describes research on the prediction of horizontal displacements and internal forces in an anchored wall for the protection of an excavation, using standard field and laboratory tests and a finite-element programme with a soil model that can simulate the key aspects of soil behaviour at a construction site. It is important to be acquainted with the constitutive model incorporated in the programme, and the selection of the appropriate soil parameters for the numerical analysis is a crucial part of the modelling. As a result, it is useful to carry out numerical simulations of standard laboratory tests with well-known soil behaviour in order to select the relevant parameters for the simulation of the actual construction process.
It is shown in this paper that the measurements of the shear-wave velocities, which can provide the soil’s stiffness at very small strains, can also be useful for determining the static stiffness at a magnitude of the strains relevant for the geotechnical structure under consideration, for both cohesive and noncohesive soils.
The research was carried out by a detailed analysis of a case history involving an anchored, reinforced concrete wall supporting the walls of an excavation in a relatively stiff soil. The wall displacements were monitored using an installed inclinometer.
The major part of the paper is devoted to an analysis of the selection of parameters, especially the stiffness parameters. The simulation of the triaxial, consolidated, undrained tests was used in order to assess the reduction of the secant stiffness modulus with an increase of the relative mobilized shear strength for the hard clay layer according to the published empirical evidence. It is shown that by selecting the appropriate stiffness parameters for the soil model used in the numerical analysis, it is possible to get an acceptable prediction of the anchored-wall displacements. This is just one example of a successful analysis, but it is encouraging in the way that it shows how it is possible to make reliable predictions based on standard field and laboratory tests and with the use of an available computer programme with a realistic soil model. |
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| Keywords: | anchored wall, soil model, shear stiffness, numerical modelling, measured displacements |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Year of publishing: | 2008 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 4-19 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 5, št. 1 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-70634  |
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| ISSN: | 1854-0171 |
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| UDC: | 624.04:519.853 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1854-0171 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 246169344 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:CWYFVXG0 |
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| Copyright: | Fakulteta za gradbeništvo, prometno inženirstvo in arhitekturo Univerze v Mariboru |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 01.06.2018 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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