A theoretical solution for pile-supported embankments on soft soils under one-dimensional compression

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 611-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Chen ◽  
Y. M. Chen ◽  
J. Han ◽  
Z. Z. Xu
Keyword(s):  
Skin Friction ◽  
Soft Soil ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Stress Transfer ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
Soil Arching ◽  
Foundation Soil ◽  
Negative Skin Friction ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Piled Embankment

Pile-supported embankments are increasingly being used for highways, railways, storage tanks, etc. over soft soil because of their effectiveness in accelerating construction and minimizing deformation. The stress transfer mechanisms among all of the components in a piled embankment, including the embankment fill, the piles and (or) caps, and the foundation soils, are complicated. In this study, a closed-form solution for one-dimensional loading was obtained taking into consideration the soil arching in the embankment fill, the negative skin friction along the pile shaft, and the settlement of the foundation soil. In the derivations, the piles, the embankment fill, and the foundation soil were assumed to deform one-dimensionally. This study investigated the stress concentration on top of the pile, the axial load and skin friction distributions along the pile, and the settlement of the embankment. Comparisons demonstrate that the results from this solution are in good agreement with those obtained using a finite element method. It is worth pointing out that this solution should be applied to the piles close to the centerline of the embankment and not to those near the toe of the embankment because of the two-dimensional loading condition near the toe.

scholarly journals Analytical methods for stress transfer efficacy in the piled embankment

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (HTCS6) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Hung Van Pham ◽  
Phuc Dinh Hoang ◽  
Thinh Duc Ta ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Load Transfer ◽  
Soft Soil ◽  
Stress Transfer ◽  
Soil Improvement ◽  
Soil Arching ◽  
Negative Skin Friction ◽  
Load Transfer Mechanism ◽  
Improvement Method ◽  
Piled Embankment

Soft soil reinforced by rigid inclusions under embankment is a soft soil improvement method, known as a piled embankment. It has been widely studied and applied over the world, since 90’s decade of the last century. The behavior of a piled embankment is mainly based on the formation of soil arching within the embankment and the negative skin friction around inclusion shaft. The paper investigates the mechanical behavior of a piled embankment to make clear the load transfer mechanism of the method. Additionally, some of the analytical methods in determining the stress transfer efficacy are presented.

Negative skin friction and the neutral plane

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elmer L. Matyas ◽  
J. Carlos Santamarina
Keyword(s):  
Closed Form ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Skin Friction ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
Neutral Plane ◽  
Rigid Plastic ◽  
Negative Skin Friction ◽  
Elastic Plastic ◽  
Drag Forces

Current views indicate that negative skin friction on piles can be mobilized at small relative deformations and should be considered in all designs, primarily for serviceability conditions. An elastic-plastic closed-form solution is presented that permits an estimate of down-drag forces and the location of the neutral plane. It is shown that the conventional rigid-plastic solution may overestimate down-drag forces by as much as 50% and may also overestimate the depth of the neutral plane. Key words : piles, negative skin friction, neutral plane, capacity.

Free Vibration of a Multilayered One-Dimensional Quasi-Crystal Plate

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Waksmanski ◽  
Ernian Pan ◽  
Lian-Zhi Yang ◽  
Yang Gao
Keyword(s):  
Free Vibration ◽  
Natural Frequencies ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
Crystal Plate ◽  
Mode Shapes ◽  
Sandwich Plates ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Propagator Matrix ◽  
Multilayered Plates

An exact closed-form solution of free vibration of a simply supported and multilayered one-dimensional (1D) quasi-crystal (QC) plate is derived using the pseudo-Stroh formulation and propagator matrix method. Natural frequencies and mode shapes are presented for a homogenous QC plate, a homogenous crystal plate, and two sandwich plates made of crystals and QCs. The natural frequencies and the corresponding mode shapes of the plates show the influence of stacking sequence on multilayered plates and the different roles phonon and phason modes play in dynamic analysis of QCs. This work could be employed to further expand the applications of QCs especially if used as composite materials.

scholarly journals The generalized viscoelastic spring

2020 ◽  
Vol 476 (2236) ◽  
pp. 20190881
Author(s):  
Kostas P. Soldatos
Keyword(s):  
Viscous Flow ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
Viscoelastic Deformation ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Flow Formation ◽  
Inelastic Material ◽  
Flow Potential ◽  
Well Posed

A spring/rod model is presented that describes one-dimensional behaviour of solids susceptible to large or small viscoelastic deformation. Derivation of its constitutive equation is underpinned by the fact that the internal energy, which the elastic part of deformation stores in the spring, changes in time with the observed strain as well as with some, unknown part of the strain-rate. The latter emerges through the action of a viscous flow potential and is the source of inelastic deformation. Thus, unlike its conventional viscoelasticity counterparts, the model does not postulate a priori a rule that relates strain with viscous flow formation. Instead, it considers that such a rule, as well as other important features of combined elastic and inelastic material response, should become known a posteriori through the solution of a relevant, well-posed boundary value problem. This paper begins with considerations compatible with large viscoelastic deformations and gradually progresses through simpler modelling situations. The latter also include the case of small viscoelastic strain that underpins formulation of classical, spring-dashpot viscoelastic models. In an example application, a relevant closed-form solution is obtained for a spring undergoing small viscoelastic deformation under the influence of a viscous flow potential which is quadratic in the stress.

scholarly journals MHD Nanofluids in a Permeable Channel with Porosity

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilyas Khan ◽  
Aisha Alqahtani
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Parameter ◽  
Flow Direction ◽  
Perturbation Technique ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
Convection Flow ◽  
Temperature Profiles ◽  
Uniform Temperature ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Physical Conditions

This paper introduces a mathematical model of a convection flow of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nanofluid in a channel embedded in a porous medium. The flow along the walls, characterized by a non-uniform temperature, is under the effect of the uniform magnetic field acting transversely to the flow direction. The walls of the channel are permeable. The flow is due to convection combined with uniform suction/injection at the boundary. The model is formulated in terms of unsteady, one-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) with imposed physical conditions. The cluster effect of nanoparticles is demonstrated in the C 2 H 6 O 2 , and H 2 O base fluids. The perturbation technique is used to obtain a closed-form solution for the velocity and temperature distributions. Based on numerical experiments, it is concluded that both the velocity and temperature profiles are significantly affected by ϕ . Moreover, the magnetic parameter retards the nanofluid motion whereas porosity accelerates it. Each H 2 O -based and C 2 H 6 O 2 -based nanofluid in the suction case have a higher magnitude of velocity as compared to the injections case.

New exact results for the defective square lattice

1976 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ronca
Keyword(s):  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Exact Result ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
Square Lattice ◽  
Zero Temperature ◽  
Real Crystal ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Resonance Modes ◽  
The One ◽  
Dimensional Crystal

Since the publication of the fundamental papers by Lifshitz (1, 2) and Montroll and Potts (3, 4) many authors have investigated the effect of an isotopic impurity on the lattice vibrations of a harmonic crystal at zero temperature. A fairly broad knowledge is now available on scattering amplitudes, localized modes and resonance modes (6, 7). Nevertheless, as pointed out by Maradudin and Montroll (see (7), p. 430), a closed form solution to the problem has been found only for the one-dimensional crystal, the work done on two and three-dimensional crystals being predominantly numerical. Unfortunately the one-dimensional crystal, as an approximation for a real crystal is an oversimplified model, incapable as it is of exhibiting resonance modes. To the author's knowledge the most significant exact result concerning the classical behaviour at zero temperature of crystals having a dimensionality higher than one is the connexion, calculated by Mahanty et al. (5) between localized mode frequency and impurity mass for the case of a square lattice undergoing planar vibrations.

On the Numerical Solution of One-Dimensional Continuum Problems Using the Theory of a Cosserat Point

1985 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Solution ◽  
Body Force ◽  
Closed Form Solution ◽  
Form Solution ◽  
Element Approximation ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Linear Elastic ◽  
Elastic Bar ◽  
Cosserat Point ◽  
Nonlinear Elastic

The theory of a Cosserat point is specialized to describe the motion of a one-dimensional continuum. Attention is focused on two problems of an elastic bar. Vibration of a linear-elastic bar is considered in the first problem and static deformation of a nonlinear-elastic bar subjected to a uniform body force is considered in the second problem. A closed-form solution is derived for each problem by dividing the bar into two elements, each of which is modeled as a Cosserat point. The predictions of the two-element approximation are shown to be very accurate.

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