scholarly journals Numerical Simulation of Combined Pile-Raft Foundation under Horizontal Loading

Raft foundations generally have the ability to reduce differential settlement, contrarily causing excessive settlement. In order to overcome this, piles are used along with the raft termed as combined pile-raft foundation system. Due to the lack of availability of simplified tools and intricacy of work, the combined pile raft foundation remains as an untouched area in research. This paper explores the performance of 2x2 numerically simulated combined pile-raft foundation embedded in sand exposed to pure horizontal load using ABAQUS 3D. The effect of horizontal loading in terms of displacement is studied by varying the raft thickness, length and spacing to diameter ratios respectively for the combined pile-raft foundation having a pile diameter of 500mm. The model is validated using the existing findings. Based on this study, it is inferred that the raft thickness effect remains inconsequential whereas the length to diameter ratio and spacing to diameter ratio has an impact on the static response of the combined pile-raft foundation system.

2013 ◽  
Vol 353-356 ◽  
pp. 941-945
Author(s):  
Wei Yu Wang ◽  
Tuo Zhao

Based on practical engineering, numerical analysis model was established by using finite element analysis software. The rules about raft settlement, pile-top counterforce, soil counterforce were analysed after variable pile diameter. It is more favorable on settlement and counterforce after variable pile diameter than Original design. There is important academic significance and application value on pile raft foundation optimal design.


2013 ◽  
Vol 419 ◽  
pp. 355-359
Author(s):  
Lei Wang ◽  
Wei Li Liu ◽  
Le Sheng Chen

The paper analyzes the influence of structural parameters on the electrical performance of the microstructured environmentally-friendly electrical contact material Ag/SnO2 by using numerical simulation method.The numerical results show that the reisitivity of fiber-like electrical contact material Ag/SnO2 is significantly reduced compared with the resistivity of Ag/SnO2 adding reinforcing nanoparticles in the traditional way.So the fiber-like electrical contact material Ag/SnO2 exhibits higher conductivity in macro. On further analysis, we learn that the resistivity of fibrous electrical contact materials is related to weight percent of reinforced phase, and micro-structural parameter of length to diameter ratio. The resistivity increases as weight percent of reinforced phase increases,and decreases non-linearly with micro-structural parameter of length to diameter ratio increasing.This demonstrates that numerical simulation is one of effective methods for analysis of the electrical performance of the microstructured electrical contact material.


2013 ◽  
Vol 353-356 ◽  
pp. 2531-2536
Author(s):  
Xiu Guang Song ◽  
Zhi Dong Zhou ◽  
Hong Bo Zhang ◽  
Hong Ya Yue

In order to solve the problem of differential settlement, seepage flow and stability between the new and old dam boundary in capacity increasing of the plain reservoirs, the comparative analysis on the stability of the dam slope with different methods on dealing with the new and old dam boundary was performed by numerical simulation with FLAC3D. The result shows that combining the new and old dam by using geogrid indicates superiority for reducing differential settlement, improving the dam stability and safety, etc. In the meantime, on the basis of actual site investigation and theoretical analysis, combined with the requirements of design, construction and management in capacity increasing of the plain reservoirs, the key construction technology was put forward and widely applied foreground, which can improve the quality of the construction, reduce engineering disease and provide references for capacity increasing engineering of in plain reservoirs.


2013 ◽  
Vol 385-386 ◽  
pp. 400-403
Author(s):  
Fu Yuan Li ◽  
Yu Wen Zhang ◽  
Xi Zhao Du

In the experiment of cavitation, the same water tunnel with different model size will get cavity shape that is different from the result of the empirical formula under the same cavitation number. In this article, we studied the impact of wall effect on natural cavity shape and the resistance of cavitator. We get the cavity shape and resistance of cavitator under different diameter ratio. We also get the law how cavity shape and resistance of cavitator change with the diameter ratio. The results provide a reference for experiment in water tunnel and the simulation model.


2011 ◽  
Vol 261-263 ◽  
pp. 1578-1583
Author(s):  
Yong Le Li ◽  
Jiang Feng Wang ◽  
Qian Wang ◽  
Kun Yang

based on the finite element method of superstructure-the pile raft foundation-the foundation soil action and interaction are studied. Research shows that the common function is considered, fundamental overall settlement and differential settlement with the increase of floor of a nonlinear trend. The influence of superstructure form is bigger for raft stress, the upper structure existing in secondary stress, and the bending moment and axial force than conventional design method slants big; With the increase of the floors, pile load sharing ratio is reduced gradually,but soil load sharing ratio is increased. Along with the increase of the upper structure stiffness, the load focused on corner and side pile; Increasing thickness of raft, can reduce the certain differential settlement and foundation average settlement, thus reducing the upper structure of secondary stress and improving of foundation soil load sharing ratio, at the same time the distribution of counterforce on the pile head is more uneven under raft, thus requiring more uneven from raft stress, considering the piles under raft and the stress of soils to comprehensive determines a reasonable raft thickness, which makes the design safety economy. As the foundation soil modulus of deformation of foundation soil improvement, sharing the upper loads increases, counterforce on the pile head incline to average, raft maximum bending moment decrease gradually.


2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 4460-4462
Author(s):  
Ya Dong Chen ◽  
Xu Dong Wang ◽  
Yue Xin She ◽  
Jiang Dong Cai

ABAQUS is used to study the load-settlement characteristic and soil displacement field of the pile raft foundation. Numerical results are compared to the outputs from model test. The study results show that good consistency is obtained from the comparison of results between numerical simulation and model tests. Small pile space will weaken the single pile bearing capacity. The compress region is mainly centralized in the soil beneath the pile tip to the 3b space pile raft foundation, which presents a massive deep foundation failure pattern. As the increase of pile space, the compress region under cap shifts upward. The displacement influence depth of 6b space pile foundation is smaller than 3b space pile raft foundation, and it is destroyed by the lateral squeeze of the soil around piles.


Author(s):  
Haruyuki Yamamoto ◽  
He Huang

Some simplified design methods were proposed to predict behavior of lateral loaded piled-raft foundations on homogenous soil. One of them is the cone model method. However, only one average solution of pile behavior can be given by this method. It can’t evaluate the location factors of piles. Therefore, this paper describes a new simplified method to predict behavior of lateral loaded piled raft foundations covering the location factor of piles. At first, ground surface displacement is derived theoretically by Cerutti’s solution, then assuming that the raft foundation has rigid stiffness, these displacements are the same to calculation lateral loading distribution. Second, the ground displacement where pile placed could be estimated under calculated lateral loading. Third, the piles behavior are evaluated based on these lateral ground displacements. In addition, 3-D FEM numerical analysis were performed to compared with these solutions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 374-377 ◽  
pp. 1947-1952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Yun Xiao ◽  
Guo Xun Zhang ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
Zhong Ming Xue

It is a complicated progress of interaction between pile and soil when pile is under both vertical load and horizontal load. This paper analyzes the variation of stress, strain, deformation and deflection of the pile body by finite element numerical simulation of single bored concrete pile under vertical load together with horizontal load. Based on the existing research results, conclusions could be that the vertical load can increase horizontal bearing capacity of the pile in sandy soils, but horizontal bearing capacity of the pile in clayey soils is more complicated. Hope that the simulation can provide some references for the design of pile foundation.


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