Two-dimensional development of the dynamic coupled consolidation scaled boundary finite-element method for fully saturated soils

✍ Scribed by Mahmoud Hassanen; Ashraf El-Hamalawi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 247 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-7261
• DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.05.003

✦ Synopsis

The scaled boundary finite-element method is a powerful tool used to analyse far-field boundary soil-structure interaction problems. In this paper, the method is extended to include Biot's coupled consolidation in order to deal with fully saturated soil as a two-phase medium. The advantages of this method are explained in this paper. The detailed formulation considers the general two-dimensional (2D) analysis case, accounting for body forces and surface tractions in both bounded and unbounded media.