Stochastic Finite-Element Analysis of Soil Layers with Random Interface
Stochastic Finite-Element Analysis of Soil Layers with Random Interface
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具有随机界面的土层的随机有限元分析
DOI:
10.1061/(asce)0733-9399(1996)122:4(361
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发表时间:
1996
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通讯作者:
W. Brzakala
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作者:
R. Ghanem;W. Brzakala
This paper addresses the problem of a medium with two layers separated by an interface randomly fluctuating in space. The medium is subjected to an in-plane strain field simulating the effect of a surface foundation. The second-moments characteristics of the interface spatial fluctuations are used to formulate the problem. The Karhunen-Loeve and the polynomial chaos expansions are utilized to transform the problem into a computationally tractable form, thus resulting in a system of linear algebraic equations to solve. The difficulty in this problem stems from the geometric nature of the randomness, resulting in a stiffness matrix that is nonlinear in the randomness. This leads to a nonlinear stochastic problem, the solution of which is accomplished by relying on the polynomial chaos representation of stochastic processes.