© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers.Find a library where document is available.The use of the DMT and elastic beam approach confirmed many of the critical utilities would not be damaged, thereby saving construction time and tens of millions of dollars in utility remediation and relocation costs. Settlement profiles from these modeled cross-sections were applied to the utilities using an elastic beam approach. At critical utility crossings, the proposed embankments were modeled using PLAXIS 2D with soil defined by the DMT constrained modulus profiles.
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Download In PLAXIS 2D two plates of unit dimensions are used (1 x 1 m). Additional DMT in situ tests were used to measure the constrained modulus with less disturbance. In this chapter, the finite element method program Plaxis 2D version 8 is used. Because of extensive sample disturbance incurred during sampling and testing of the Piedmont residuum soil, consolidation tests measured low constrained moduli and preliminary settlement estimates predicted large and unrealistic settlements. The advanced material models involve specific features such as stress-dependency of stiffness, strain-hardening / softening, memory of pre-consolidation, critical state, anisotropy, creep, swelling and shrinkage.
For the Northwest Corridor Express Lanes project along I-75 in Georgia, utilities (sewers, water lines, etc.) were expected to be affected by new embankment construction. Bentley PLAXIS includes many advanced material models besides Hooke's law of isotropic elasticity and Mohr-Coulomb. Flat Plate Dilatometer and Finite Element Analysis in Evaluation of Settlement Induced Effects on Utilitiesįlat-plate dilatometer (DMT) and ASTM D 2435 consolidation test derived constrained moduli are compared and a utility analysis is performed.
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