Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6770818 | Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering | 2018 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
This paper presents a new soil-foundation macro-element model to allow efficient and sufficiently accurate consideration of soil-foundation-structure interaction in structural analysis. The model makes use of two constitutive models, a plasticity model which models the soil inelastic deformation, and an elastic uplift model, which captures the geometric non-linearity during uplift of the foundation. Further considerations are made to allow the macro-element to be efficiently implemented in a particular non-linear finite element software (Ruaumoko3D). Two experimental centrifuge tests are simulated using the proposed macro-element: one of a bridge pier and one of a one-bay, one-storey frame structure. The simulated results are compared to the experimental behaviour to demonstrate the accuracy of the numerical model.
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Authors
M.D.L. Millen, M. Cubrinovski, S. Pampanin, A. Carr,