DEM analysis of load transfer in double-layer geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported embankments

IF 2.8 3区工程技术 Q1 MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS Computational Particle Mechanics Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI:10.1007/s40571-024-00834-8

Rong Sun, Xin Jiang, Lei Zhang, Canyang Cui, Mian Zhang, Zhengxian Li, Yanjun Qiu

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In recent years, geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported (GRPS) embankments have gathered increasing attention in the scientific community for their effectiveness in improving soft ground. This study aims to investigate the load transfer of double-layer GRPS embankments using the discrete element method (DEM), with a focus on soil arching effects and membrane effects. A coefficient, denoted as η and defined as h/H, was introduced to study the influence of the distance between two geosynthetics on load transfer. The results indicated: (1) Double-layer GRPS embankments demonstrated uniform load transmission downwards, thereby reducing the large deformation zone within the embankment fill. (2) Maximum tension in geosynthetics occurred at the edges of pile caps in both single-layer and double-layer GRPS embankments. However, double-layer GRPS embankments effectively mitigated the maximum tension in geosynthetics. (3) Double-layer GRPS embankments minimized soil arching formation within the embankment while enhancing membrane effects. (4) With increasing η, soil arching gradually formed between the two layers of geosynthetics. (5) Above a η threshold of 0.1, the maximum tension in the lower layer of geosynthetics significantly exceeded that in the upper layer.

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Computational Particle Mechanics Mathematics-Computational Mathematics

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期刊介绍： GENERAL OBJECTIVES: Computational Particle Mechanics (CPM) is a quarterly journal with the goal of publishing full-length original articles addressing the modeling and simulation of systems involving particles and particle methods. The goal is to enhance communication among researchers in the applied sciences who use "particles'''' in one form or another in their research. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: Particle-based materials and numerical methods have become wide-spread in the natural and applied sciences, engineering, biology. The term "particle methods/mechanics'''' has now come to imply several different things to researchers in the 21st century, including: (a) Particles as a physical unit in granular media, particulate ﬂows, plasmas, swarms, etc., (b) Particles representing material phases in continua at the meso-, micro-and nano-scale and (c) Particles as a discretization unit in continua and discontinua in numerical methods such as Discrete Element Methods (DEM), Particle Finite Element Methods (PFEM), Molecular Dynamics (MD), and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), to name a few.