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Simulation of Cyclic Loading Conditions Within Fluid-Saturated Granular Media

Authors : Wolfgang Ehlers, Maik Schenke, Bernd Markert

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Abstract

In civil engineering, the installation of a reliable foundation is essential for the stability of the emerging structure. Already during the foundation process, a comprehensive survey of the mutual interactions between the preliminary established construction pit and the surrounding soil is indispensable, especially, when building in an existing context. In this regard, drawing our attention to the construction site at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, which resides within a nearly fully saturated soil and in the immediate vicinity of existing structures, measurements have revealed significant displacements of the retaining walls during the vibratory installation of the foundation piles via a so-called vibro-injection procedure. Herein, due to the gradual plastic strain accumulation and the small pore-fluid permeability of the granular assembly, the rapid cyclic loading conditions gave rise to a gradual pore-pressure build-up, which degraded the load-bearing capacity of the surrounding soil.
Addressing the simulation of cyclic loading conditions within a fluid-saturated soil, the present contribution proceeds from a multi-phasic continuum-mechanical approach based on the Theory of Porous Media (TPM), where the solid scaffold is described as an elasto-(visco)plastic material incorporating both an isotropic and a kinematic hardening model. The properties of the proposed solid-skeleton description are extensively discussed. Moreover, the model response is compared to experimental data.

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Footnotes
1
Herein, the stress tensors are interpreted as vectors in the principle stress space.
 
2
Note that under pure hydrostatic or deviatoric loading, the contributions of the plastic flow in the deviatoric or hydrostatic direction, respectively, are not uniquely defined due to \(\Vert \mathbf {G}^{D}\Vert =0\) and \({G}^{V} =0\), respectively. Consequently, arbitrary projection directions \(\mathbf {N}^{D}\) and \(\mathbf {N}^{V}\) are defined in this case in order to keep the formulation computable. In this case, the scaling factors, \(\zeta ^{V}\) and \( \zeta ^{D}\), do not contribute to the hardening, see (18) and (19), due to vanishing plastic strain rates in the corresponding directions.
 
3
The sand samples have been provided by the Institute of soil and rock mechanics (Institut für Boden- und Felsmechanik, IBF) of the Karlsruher Institut of Technology (KIT).
 
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Metadata
Title
Simulation of Cyclic Loading Conditions Within Fluid-Saturated Granular Media
Authors
Wolfgang Ehlers
Maik Schenke
Bernd Markert
Copyright Year
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52590-7_8