scholarly journals Numerical Implementation of Isotropic Consolidation of Clayey Soils

10.14311/400 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Janda ◽  
M. Kuklík ◽  
M. Šejnoha

This paper reports on implementation of several numerical techniques to solve a set of governing equations resulting from simple one dimensional isotropic consolidation of soils that behave according to the Cam clay model. Three different methods of solving the equations of consolidation, namely the collocation method, the finite volume method and the finite element method, are presented. Apart from evaluating their efficiency, which becomes particularly crucial when implementing these techniques in the framework of an optimization problem aimed at tuning the model parameters, a set of parameters of a Cam clay model driving the time dependent response of the soils (deformation dependent variation of the coefficient of permeability and preconsolidation pressure) is also discussed.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Nepelski ◽  
Ewa Błazik-Borowa
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2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhavani V. Sankar ◽  
Màrten Sylwan

Abstract An analytical method is developed to study the problem of one-dimensional sandwich plates containing debonded face-sheets and subjected to in-plane compressive loads. The non-linear governing equations for the sandwich plate are solved to obtain a relation between the boundary forces and displacements in a matrix form as in the finite element method. The debonded sandwich plate is divided into four elements. The element stiffness matrices are assembled to obtain the global stiffness matrix, and the global equations are solved to obtain the displacements. The results include load/end-shortening relations. The method is found to be very efficient and accurate, and can be used to study the progressive damage of debonded sandwich plates under in-plane compressive loads.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.35) ◽  
pp. 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Irmawati Om ◽  
Rozli Zulkifli ◽  
P. Gunnasegaran

The influence of utilizing different nanofluids types on the liquid cold plate (LCP) is numerically investigated. The thermal and fluid flow performance of LCP is examined by using pure ethylene glycol (EG), Al2O3-EG and CuO-EG. The volume fraction of the nanoparticle for both nanofluid is 2%. The finite volume method (FVM) has been used to solved 3-D steady state, laminar flow and heat transfer governing equations. The presented results indicate that Al2O3-EG able to provide the lowest surface temperature of the heater block followed by CuO-EG and EG, respectively. It is also found that the pressure drop and friction factor are higher for Al2O3-EG and CuO-EG compared to the pure EG.


1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Rand

A one-dimensional, steady-state, constant temperature model of diffusion and absorption of CO2 in the intercellular air spaces of a leaf is presented. The model includes two geometrically distinct regions of the leaf interior, corresponding to palisade and spongy mesophyll tissue, respectively. Sun, shade, and intermediate light leaves are modeled by varying the thicknesses of these two regions. Values of the geometric model parameters are obtained by comparing geometric properties of the model with experimental data of other investigators found from dissection of real leaves. The model provides a quantitative estimate of the extent to which the concentration of gaseous CO2 varies locally within the leaf interior.


1994 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 919-922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taein Yeo ◽  
J. R. Barber

When heat is conducted across an interface between two dissimilar materials, theimoelastic distortion affects the contact pressure distribution. The existence of a pressure-sensitive thermal contact resistance at the interface can cause such systems to be unstable in the steady-state. Stability analysis for thermoelastic contact has been conducted by linear perturbation methods for one-dimensional and simple two-dimensional geometries, but analytical solutions become very complicated for finite geometries. A method is therefore proposed in which the finite element method is used to reduce the stability problem to an eigenvalue problem. The linearity of the underlying perturbation problem enables us to conclude that solutions can be obtained in separated-variable form with exponential variation in time. This factor can therefore be removed from the governing equations and the finite element method is used to obtain a time-independent set of homogeneous equations in which the exponential growth rate appears as a linear parameter. We therefore obtain a linear eigenvalue problem and stability of the system requires that all the resulting eigenvalues should have negative real part. The method is discussed in application to the simple one-dimensional system of two contacting rods. The results show good agreement with previous analytical investigations and give additional information about the migration of eigenvalues in the complex plane as the steady-state heat flux is varied.


2011 ◽  
Vol 483 ◽  
pp. 603-606
Author(s):  
Tian Han ◽  
Xiao Wei Liu ◽  
Chao Wang

A kind of flat micro heat pipe with glass fiber wick structure is designed and fabricated. The structure of the wick is presented and also the excellence of the structure is described. For the glass fiber wick, the maximum heat transports is calculated by one-dimensional steady governing equations. Experimental testing is performed for the fabricated micro heat pipe in vacuum. The testing results is presented and analyzed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 316-317 ◽  
pp. 632-635
Author(s):  
Ye Fei Tan ◽  
Zhi Fang Zhou ◽  
Shi Qiang Wu ◽  
Xing Hua Xie ◽  
Bo Ning

Groundwater in fractured media plays an important role in drinking water supply, and the understanding of its principle mechanisms is essential for securing the groundwater exploring and utilization. In this paper, a novel conceptual fracture model was presented on the basis of the reality of channeling flow in natural fractures and laboratory experiments were conducted for the purpose of getting a better understanding of the step-like breakthrough curve (BTC). Experimental results were fitted with convective dispersive equation (CDE) and compared with those of the finite element method (FEM) models. Results showed that the traditional one-dimensional CDE was invalid in the fitting of a step-like BTC and needed to be improved.


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