Print Email Facebook Twitter Improved embedded beam with interaction surface (Poutre incorporée améliorée avec surface d’interaction) Title Improved embedded beam with interaction surface (Poutre incorporée améliorée avec surface d’interaction) Author Smulders, C.M. (ABT) Hosseini, S. (Plaxis) Brinkgreve, R.B.J. (TU Delft Geo-engineering) Contributor Sigursteinsson, Haraldur (editor) Erlingsson, Sigurður (editor) Bessason, Bjarni (editor) Date 2019 Abstract Finite Element Analysis of serviceability limit states (SLS) and bearing capacity (ULS) of piled foundations involves the modelling piles in the soil, including pile-soil interaction. Embedded beams are an efficient way to model multiple piles for complex practical applications. Following initial work of Sadek & Shahrour (2004) on embedded beam elements, Turello et al (2016a,b) introduced a new embedded beam formulation with interaction surface to overcome mesh-dependence and to improve the behaviour under lateral loading. The proposed paper describes an improvement and further evolution of the embedded beam with interaction surface for practical applications. The element has been implemented in the PLAXIS finite element software, compared with previous implementations and validated against pile load test data. The paper will show that the results of the new implementation are more accurate and less mesh-dependent than the previous implementation and the load-displacement performance is much closer to the actual pile response; both in axial loading and in lateral loading. Subject Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical coupling;Finite Element MethodGeothermal EnergyRadioactive Waste Disposal To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3caf32ac-c754-4ac9-9ad4-6e92cf46dd9f DOI https://doi.org/10.32075/17ECSMGE-2019-0139 Publisher Icelandic Geotechnical Society (IGS) ISBN 978-9935-9436-1-3 Source Proceedings of the XVII ECSMGE-2019: Geotechnical Engineering foundation of the future Event The XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2019-09-01 → 2019-09-06, Reykjavik, Iceland Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2019 C.M. Smulders, S. Hosseini, R.B.J. Brinkgreve Files PDF 0193_ecsmge_2019_Smulders ... _final.pdf 1.29 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3caf32ac-c754-4ac9-9ad4-6e92cf46dd9f/datastream/OBJ/view