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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Tentative Investigation of Structure Size Effect of High-Filled Geotechnical Structures
Authors : Erxiang Song, Tianliang Zheng, Yufei Kong
Published in: Proceedings of China-Europe Conference on Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
The structure size effect with regard to the deformation behavior of high filled geotechnical structures is investigated. Theoretical analyses and numerical Monte Carlo simulations reveal that the relatively large variability of the mechanical properties, especially those related with plastic deformations, can be the main cause of this kind of size effect. Although variability of material properties implies both degradation and upgradation of the material parameters by certain probability, computations show that the parameter degradation dominates the final results and gives rise to the structure size effect.