Three-Dimensional Soil-Pile Group Interaction in Layered Soil with Disturbed Zone by Boundary Element Analysis
Three-Dimensional Soil-Pile Group Interaction in Layered Soil with Disturbed Zone by Boundary Element Analysis
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扰动区层状土体三维土桩群相互作用的边界元分析
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2017
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Zhiyan Jiang
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J. Ashlock;Zhiyan Jiang
Three-Dimensional Soil-Pile Group Interaction in Layered Soil with Disturbed-Zone by Boundary Element Analysis Jeramy Ashlock and Zhiyan Jiang, Iowa State University As part of a current research project on dynamic soil-pile interaction, the parallelized Boundary Element Method (BEM) code BEASSI was modified to enable analysis of three-dimensional dynamic behavior of pile groups surrounded by multiple multi-layered soil zones, with rigorous account of radiation and material damping. Dynamic soil-pile interaction was then analyzed in the frequency domain for a single pile and a 2×2 pile group, each surrounded by an inner disturbed-zone and an outer half-space zone. The layered inner zone enables effects of inhomogeneity, pile installation, and strain-dependent modulus and damping to be approximated, while the outer layered half-space zone can account for the far-field wave propagation in a vertically heter-ogeneous soil medium. The performance of the modified code is validated by comparison to static and dynamic benchmark solutions from the literature. A general formulation for analyzing the dynamic response of pile groups using impedance functions from the BEM analysis is also presented, with the above-ground pile segments modeled as beamcolumns and the pile cap treated as a rigid body. For the present case of the 2×2 pile group, a 24×24 global stiffness matrix is formulated to capture the influence of each pile’s six displacement degrees-offreedom on the other piles due to pile-soil-pile interaction. The form and symmetries of the global stiffness matrix are verified by imposing displacements at the soil surface elevation for each pile crosssection separately, enabling future analyses to be performed more efficiently by specifying displacements at only one of the piles. Results of this study will lay the foundation for developing calibrated computational continuum models by analyzing upcoming full-scale vibration tests of pile groups.