An insight into the failure of reinforced sand in plane strain compression by FEM simulation

Soils and Foundations

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 103-130

  Kotake, Nozomu ^a   Tatsuoka, Fumio ^b   Tanaka, Tadatsugu ^b   Siddiquee, Mohammed S A ^c   Yamauchi, Hiromoto ^d  

^a Toyo Construction Co   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^d Penta Ocean Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite element methods; Interface; Plane strain compression test; Reinforced soil; Shear band; Stress strain relation (IGC: D6 E13)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001413773     PISSN: 00380806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3208/sandf.39.5_103     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Broms, B. B. (1977): "Triaxial tests with fabric-reinforced soil," C.R. Coll. Int. Soils Textiles, Paris, pp. 129-133.
2. Flanagan, D. P. and Belytschko, T. (1981): "A uniform strain hexahedron and quadrilateral with orthogonal hourglass control," Int. J. on Numerical Methods in Engrg., Vol. 17, pp. 679-706.
3. Gray, D. H. and Ohashi, H. (1983): "Mechanics of fiber reinforcement in sand," J. of Geotech. Engrg., Vol. 109, No. 3, ASCE, pp. 335-353.
4. Holtz, R. D., Tobin, W. R. and Burke, W. W. (1982): "Creep characteristics and stress-strain behavior of a geotextile-reinforced sand," Proc. of 2nd Int. Conf. on Geotextiles, Las Vegas, pp. 805-809.
5. Hoque, E. and Tatsuoka, F. (1998): "Anisotropy in the elastic deformation of materials," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 163-179.
6. Iwasaki, T., Tatsuoka, F. and Takagi, Y. (1978): "Shear moduli of sands under cyclic torsional loading," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 39-56.
7. Jewell, R. A. and Wroth, C. P. (1987): "Direct shear test on reinforced sand," Géotechnique, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 53-68.
8. McGown, A. and Andrawes, K. Z. (1977): "The influence of non-woven fabric inclusions on the stress strain behavior of a soil mass," C.R. Coll. Int. Soils Textiles, Paris, pp. 161-166.
9. McGown, A., Andrawes, K. Z. and Al-hasani, M. M. (1978): "Effect of inclusion properties on the behaviour of sand," Géotechnique, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 327-346.
10. Park, C.-S. and Tatsuoka, F. (1994): "Anisotropic strength and deformations of sands in plane strain compression," Proc. of the 13th Int. Conf. on SMFE, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-4.
11. Pietruszczak, S. T. and Mroz, Z. (1981): "Finite element analysis of deformation of strain softening materials," Int. J. of Numerical Methods for Geotech. Engrg., Vol. 17, pp. 327-334.
12. Rowe, P. W. (1962): "The stress dilatancy relation for static equilibrium of an assembly of particles in contact," Proc. of Royal Society, London, series A, pp. 500-527.
13. Rowe, P. W. (1969): "The relation between the shear strength of sands in triaxial compression, plane and direct shear," Géotechnique, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 75-86.
14. Shewbridge, S. E. and Sitar, N. (1989): "Deformation characteristics of reinforced sand in direct shear," J. of Geotech. Engrg., Vol. 115, No. 8, ASCE, pp. 1134-1147.
15. Shewbridge, S. E. and Sitar, N. (1996): "Formation of shear zones in reinforced sand," J. of Geotech. Engrg., Vol. 122, No. 11, ASCE, pp. 873-885.
16. Siddiquee, M. S. A., Tanaka, T. and Tatsuoka, F. (1993): "Objectivity of FEM solution for bearing capacity of footing on sand," Proc. 28th JSSMFE, Kobe, Japan, pp. 1565-1568.
17. Siddiquee, M. S. A., Tanaka, T. and Tatsuoka, F. (1995): "Tracing the equilibrium path by dynamic relaxation in materially nonlinear problems," Int. J. for Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 19, pp. 749-767.
18. Siddiquee, M. S. A., Tanaka, T., Tatsuoka, F., Tani, K. and Morimoto, T. (1999): "FEM simulation of scale effect in bearing capacity of strip footing on sand," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 91-109.
19. Tanaka, T. and Kawamoto, O. (1988): "Three-dimensional finite element collapse analysis for foundations and slopes using dynamic relaxation," Proc. of the 6th Int. Conf. on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Innsbruck, pp. 1213-1218.
20. Tanaka, T. and Sakai, T. (1993): "Progressive failure and scale effect of trap-door problems with granular materials," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 11-22.
21. Tatsuoka, F., Molenkamp, F., Torii, T. and Hino, T. (1984): "Behavior of lubrication layers of platens in element tests," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 113-128.
22. Tatsuoka, F. (1985): "On the angle of interface friction for cohesionless soils," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 135-141.
23. Tatsuoka, F., Sakamoto, M., Kawamura, T. and Fukushima, S. (1986): "Strength and deformation characteristics of sand in plane strain compression at extremely low pressure," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 65-84.
24. Tatsuoka, F. and Yamauchi, H. (1986): "A reinforcing method for steep clay slopes using a non-woven geotextile," Geotextiles and Geomembranes, Vol. 4, pp. 241-268.
25. Tatsuoka, F. (1987): "Discussion on the paper by Bolton," Géotechnique, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 219-226.
26. Tatsuoka, F., Huang, C.-C. and Morimoto, T. (1989): "Discussion on stress characteristics for shallow footings in cohesionless slopes," Can. Geotech. J., Vol. 26, pp. 748-756.
27. Tatsuoka, F., Nakamura, S., Huang, C.-C. and Tani, K. (1990): "Strength anisotropy and shear band direction in plane strain tests of sand," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 35-56.
28. Tatsuoka, F., Okahara, M., Tanaka, T., Tani, K., Morimoto, T., and Siddiquee, M. S. A. (1991): "Progressive failure and particle size effect in bearing capacity of a footing on sand," Geotech. Engrg. Congress Vol. II, F. G. McLean et al. (eds.), pp. 788-802.
29. Tatsuoka, F., Siddiquee, M. S. A., Park, C., Sakamoto, M. and Abe, F. (1993): "Modelling stress-strain relations of sand," Soils and Foundations, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 60-81.
30. Tatsuoka, F. and Kohata, Y. (1995): "Stiffness of hard soils and soft rocks in engineering applications," Keynote Lecture, Proc. of Int. Symp. Pre-Failure Deformation of Geomaterials, Shibuya et al. (eds.), Balkema, Vol. 2, pp. 947-1063.
31. Tatsuoka, F., Jardine, R. J., Lo Presti, D., Di Benedetto, H. and Kodaka, T. (1999): "Characterising the pre-failure deformation properties of geomaterials," Theme Lecture for the Plenary Session No. 1, XIV IC on SMFE, Hamburg, Vol. 4, pp. 2129-2164.
32. Vardoulakis, I. and Graf, B. (1985): "Calibration of constitutive models for granular materials using data from biaxial experiments," Géotechnique, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 299-317.
33. Yamauchi, H. (1986): "A reinforcing method for steep clay embankments with a non-woven geotextile," D. Thesis, Univ. of Tokyo.
34. Yang, Z. (1972): "Strength and deformation characteristics of reinforced sand," PhD Thesis, Univ. of California, Los Angels.
35. Yashin, S. J. M., Tatsuoka, F. and Sato, T. (1997): "Stress path-dependent behaviour of sand in plane strain," Japanese Conf. on Geotech. Engrg., Kumamoto, JGS, pp. 467-468.
36. Yoshida, T., Tatsuoka, F., Siddiquee, M. S. A., Kamegai, Y. and Park, C.-S. (1994): "Shear banding in sand in plane strain compression," Proc. of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Localisation and Bifurcation Theory for Soils and Rocks, Chambon et al. (eds.), Grenoble (Aussois), France, pp. 165-179.
37. Yoshida, T. and Tatsuoka, F. (1997): "Deformation property of shear band in sand subjected to plane strain compression and its relation to particle characteristics," Proc. 14th Int. Conf. on SMFE, Hamburg, Vol. 1, pp. 237-240.
38. Yoshimi, Y. and Kishida, T. (1982): "A ring torsion apparatus for evaluating friction between soil and metal surfaces," Geotech. Testing J., Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 145-152.
39. Zienkiewicz, O. C., Taylor, R. L. and Too, J. M. (1971): "Reduced integration technique in general analysis of plates and shells," Int. J. for Numerical Methods in Engrg., Vol. 3, pp. 275-290.