Predicting the long-term performance of a wide embankment on soft soil using an elastic-viscoplastic model

• Main Authors: Karim, M.R., Gnanendran, C.T., Lo, S.C.R., Mak, J.
• Format: Article
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/8778/; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-76749111915&partnerID=40&md5=d11f943207350e81a6caf27a7a74d6c8 www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/T09-087 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nrc/cgj/2010/00000047/00000002/art00009

This paper presents modelling of the consolidation of foundation soil under a wide embankment constructed over soft soil. An elastic-viscoplastic (EVP) constitutive model is used to represent the foundation soil for the coupled finite element analysis (FEA). A unit-cell analysis is carried out to ca...