The usage of geocell reinforcement for foundations supported on weak soil has been increased these days. The purposed study uses FEM-based ABAQUS software to analyse the behaviour of square footing supported on geocell reinforced sands subjected to static vertical loading. Numerical analysis was performed to find the optimum combination of the different geometric parameters of the geocell reinforcement. Three distinct types of sands were employed in the study with relative densities of 30%, 50%, and 70%. The geometric parameters of the geocell, such as the placement depth of geocell (u), the width (b), and the height (h) of the geocell, were modified in relation to the footing width (B) to access the optimum combination ratios. The inclusion of the geocell reinforcement increases the load-carrying capacity up to 5-6 times compared to unreinforced sand. The results obtained from the numerical analysis were intended to correlate well with the experimental data available in the literature.
This paper details a finite element analysis of the behaviour of Si-Al geopolymer concrete beam reinforced steel bar under an impulsive load and hyper velocity speed up to 1 km/s created by an air blast explosion. The initial torsion stiffness and ultimate torsion strength of the beam increased with increasing compressive strength and decreasing stirrup ratio. The study involves building a finite element model to detail the stress distribution and compute the level of damage, displacement, and cracks development on the geopolymer concrete reinforcement beam. This was done in ABAQUS, where a computational model of the finite element was used to determine the elasticity, plasticity, concrete tension damages, concrete damage plasticity, and the viability of the Johnson-Cook Damage method on the Si-Al geopolymer concrete. The results from the numerical simulation show that an increase in the load magnitude at the midspan of the beam leads to a percentage increase in the ultimate damage of the reinforced geopolymer beams failing in shear plastic deformation. The correlation between the numerical and experimental blasting results confirmed that the damage pattern accurately predicts the response of the steel reinforcement Si-Al geopolymer concrete beams, concluded that decreasing the scaled distance from 0.298 kg/m3 to 0.149 kg/m3 increased the deformation percentage.
W artykule przedstawiono wpływ na deformację sprężystą i trwałość nawierzchni drogowej podatnej kształtu powierzchni kontaktu koła pojazdu z nawierzchnią, na przykładzie powierzchni zbliżonej kształtem do eliptycznego i na przykładzie typowego (reprezentatywnego) układu warstw nawierzchni. Założono, że modelem mechanistycznym nawierzchni jest wielowarstwowa półprzestrzeń liniowo sprężysta, a obciążenie wynikające z oddziaływania koła na nawierzchnię jest statyczne, prostopadłe do nawierzchni i rozłożone równomiernie na wspomnianej powierzchni oraz – do celów porównawczych – na powierzchni kołowej (o tym samym polu powierzchni). Przyjęto także wariant „powierzchni podwójnej” wynikający z oddziaływania na nawierzchnię koła podwójnego. W tym celu zastosowano MES i wykonano obliczenia z wykorzystaniem programu ABAQUS.
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The effect of the contact surface of standard truck wheel (in the shape of area close to an elliptical one) with the road pavement (of a typical, representative set of layers) on the elastic deformation and durability of the pavement is shown in the paper. It was assumed that the pavement model is multi-layered linear elastic half-space and the load resulting from the impact of the wheel on the pavement is static, perpendicular to the pavement surface and uniformly distributed on the undertaken surface, and – for comparison purposes – on being frequently in use circular surface (of the same surface area). Also the variant of "double surface" due to the impact of dual wheel is taken into account. For this aim Finite Element Method was applied and ABAQUS software was used.
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