Advanced Approaches for Coupled Deformation-Seepage-Analyses of Suction Caisson Installation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Stapelfeldt ◽  
Britta Bienen ◽  
Jürgen Grabe
Keyword(s):  
Deformation Analysis ◽  
Numerical Techniques ◽  
Suction Caisson ◽  
Large Deformation Analysis ◽  
Centrifuge Tests ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
Explicit Solver ◽  
Excess Pore Pressures ◽  
Numerical Approaches

In this paper the installation procedure of suction caissons is investigated by means of coupled seepage large deformation analysis performed with finite element methods. The modelling techniques employed to enable simulations of the penetration of a caisson into the soil under offshore conditions, i. e. several tens of meters below the water level. The numerical model includes a u-p-formulation, which is used to calculate the excess pore pressures and effective stresses from the total stresses. The Coupled-Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) approach available in conjunction with the Abaqus/Explicit solver is used. The calculation results are compared to centrifuge tests that were carried out recently at the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS). This sheds light on the potential and the limitations of the presented numerical techniques. This paper concludes with a brief discussion of alternative numerical approaches that could be capable of the simulation of caisson installation.

scholarly journals Sustainable Measures for Protection of Structures Against Earthquake Induced Liquefaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopal S. P. Madabhushi ◽  
Samy Garcia-Torres
Keyword(s):  
Soil Liquefaction ◽  
Excess Pore Pressure ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Centrifuge Testing ◽  
Centrifuge Tests ◽  
Liquefiable Soil ◽  
Recent Earthquakes ◽  
Excess Pore Pressures ◽  
Excess Pore

AbstractSoil liquefaction can cause excessive damage to structures as witnessed in many recent earthquakes. The damage to small/medium-sized buildings can lead to excessive death toll and economic losses due to the sheer number of such buildings. Economic and sustainable methods to mitigate liquefaction damage to such buildings are therefore required. In this paper, the use of rubble brick as a material to construct earthquake drains is proposed. The efficacy of these drains to mitigate liquefaction effects was investigated, for the first time to include the effects of the foundations of a structure by using dynamic centrifuge testing. It will be shown that performance of the foundation in terms of its settlement was improved by the rubble brick drains by directly comparing them to the foundation on unimproved, liquefiable ground. The dynamic response in terms of horizontal accelerations and rotations will be compared. The dynamic centrifuge tests also yielded valuable information with regard to the excess pore pressure variation below the foundations both spatially and temporally. Differences of excess pore pressures between the improved and unimproved ground will be compared. Finally, a simplified 3D finite element analysis will be introduced that will be shown to satisfactorily capture the settlement characteristics of the foundation located on liquefiable soil with earthquake drains.

Large deformation analysis of moderately thick viscoelastic plates

2019 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 146-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasrin Jafari ◽  
Mojtaba Azhari ◽  
Bijan Boroomand
Keyword(s):  
Large Deformation ◽  
Deformation Analysis ◽  
Large Deformation Analysis

Meshless TL and UL Approaches for Large Deformation Analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 139-141 ◽  
pp. 893-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Tong Gu
Keyword(s):  
Large Deformation ◽  
Computational Efficiency ◽  
Metal Forming ◽  
Weak Form ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Deformation Analysis ◽  
Large Deformation Analysis ◽  
Updated Lagrangian ◽  
Local Weak Form ◽  
Large Deformation Problems

To accurately and effectively simulate large deformation is one of the major challenges in numerical modeling of metal forming. In this paper, an adaptive local meshless formulation based on the meshless shape functions and the local weak-form is developed for the large deformation analysis. Total Lagrangian (TL) and the Updated Lagrangian (UL) approaches are used and thoroughly compared each other in computational efficiency and accuracy. It has been found that the developed meshless technique provides a superior performance to the conventional FEM in dealing with large deformation problems for metal forming. In addition, the TL has better computational efficiency than the UL. However, the adaptive analysis is much more efficient using in the UL approach than using in the TL approach.

scholarly journals An Orthotropic Membrane Model for the Large Deformation Analysis and Snapping Phenomena of the Dome Inflated

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 02016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shohei Yamada ◽  
Katsushi Ijima ◽  
Hiroyuki Obiya ◽  
Muhammad Nizam Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Large Deformation ◽  
Membrane Model ◽  
Deformation Analysis ◽  
Large Deformation Analysis
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