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Application of endochronic densification law for designing vibroflotation soil improvement technique

Peco, J; Lopez-Querol, MS; (2012) Application of endochronic densification law for designing vibroflotation soil improvement technique. In: ACEM12 Proceedings. ACEM Green open access

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Abstract

The densification phenomenon in dry or completely drained sands is mainly due to the application of dynamic loading, like an earthquake or other kind of vibrations. This fact causes a reduction of voids volume and in a consequence the compaction of the soil. A finite element model, including the generalized endochronic densification law, formulated in cylindrical coordinates, has been developed for simulating the vibroflotation soil improvement technique the numerical model. Punctual dynamic loadings, like those occurring in vibroflotation treatment, are reproduced in the code. There are several other vibration-compacting soil improvement techniques which could be modelled like an axi-symmetric problem with this new approach, which includes absorbent boundary conditions (silent boundaries).

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Application of endochronic densification law for designing vibroflotation soil improvement technique
Event: The 2012 World Congress on Advances in Civil, Environmental, and Materials Research (ACEM’ 12)
Location: Seoul, Korea
Dates: 12 August 2012 - 16 August 2012
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.i-asem.org/publication_conf/acem12/W4C-...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1539952
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