Class A prediction of a retaining structure made by a pile curtain wall executed on a tropical soil

Some retaining structures can be designed on a temporary basis, in accordance to the geotechnical design and a predefined construction plan. Off course this may not be valid elsewhere, but in Brasília, where residual and laterized soils do prevail, best mechanical resistances are obtained in the por...

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Autores:
Ruge-Cárdenas, Juan Carlos
Da Cunha, Renato
Colmenares, Julio Esteban
Mendoza, Cristhian Camilo
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2017
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/60371
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/60371
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/58703/
Palabra clave:
62 Ingeniería y operaciones afines / Engineering
unsaturated response
numerical prediction
hypoplasticity
retaining structures
pile curtain
respuesta no saturada
predicción numérica
hipoplasticidad
estructuras de contención
pilotes tangentes
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openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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Summary:Some retaining structures can be designed on a temporary basis, in accordance to the geotechnical design and a predefined construction plan. Off course this may not be valid elsewhere, but in Brasília, where residual and laterized soils do prevail, best mechanical resistances are obtained in the porous clay setrata along the dry season. That means, it is controlled by soil´s suction, i.e. soil behavior presents a dependency on the unsaturated response of the medium. In numerical terms, to predict the soil-structure behavior it is necessary to include the atmosphere-soil interaction in the computational tool, using a hypoplastic model. The paper thus details on this aspect and on the numerical simulations of an existing retaining structure founded in the tropical soil of Brasília. The structure was monitored in terms of displacement, along local dry and wet seasons, and was simulated by a constitutive law calibrated by means of unsaturated laboratory tests.