Research on visco-elastic-plastic creep model of artificially frozen soil under high confining pressures

The triaxial creep experiment of artificially frozen soil in deep alluvium was performed by a self-developed machine of triaxial creep frozen soil. After analyzing the experiment results, applying parabolic yield criterion for improved viscoplasticity in the Nishihara model, a new creep constitutive model was established for describing frozen-soil's creep characteristics under high confining pressures. The secondary development tools and data interface had been used to add the visco-elastic-plastic creep constitutive model to standard ADINA FEM. Numerical simulation of the shaft well excavation process and field measurement displacements of frozen wall were performed in the mine; and the results showed that the visco-elastic-plastic creep constitutive model was suitable and reasonable. This constitutive model could be significance for the frozen soil structure long-term stability analysing and the displacement forecasting.