<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper presents in a comprehensive way issues related to propagation in a soil environment of vibrations originating during sheet piling vibratory driving. Considerations carried out comprised the FEM analysis of initial-boundary behaviour of the subsoil during impacts accompanying the works performed. The analysis has used the authors' RU+MCC constitutive model, which can realistically describe complex deformation characteristics in soils in the field of small strains, which accompany the phenomenon of shock propagation. The basis for model creation and for specification of material parameters of the presented model consisted of first-class tests performed in a triaxial apparatus using proximity detectors guaranteeing a proper measurement of strains ranging from 10-1 to 10-3% and bender elements. Results obtained from numerical analyses were confronted with results of field tests consisting in measurements of acceleration amplitudes generated on the ground surface due to technological impacts versus the distance from vibration source.</p></abstract>

The paper presents in a comprehensive way issues related to propagation in a soil environment of vibrations originating during sheet piling vibratory driving. Considerations carried out comprised the FEM analysis of initial-boundary behaviour of the subsoil during impacts accompanying the works performed. The analysis has used the authors' RU+MCC constitutive model, which can realistically describe complex deformation characteristics in soils in the field of small strains, which accompany the phenomenon of shock propagation. The basis for model creation and for specification of material parameters of the presented model consisted of first-class tests performed in a triaxial apparatus using proximity detectors guaranteeing a proper measurement of strains ranging from 10-1 to 10-3% and bender elements. Results obtained from numerical analyses were confronted with results of field tests consisting in measurements of acceleration amplitudes generated on the ground surface due to technological impacts versus the distance from vibration source.

Analysis of the Vibration Propagation in the Subsoil

Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Gliwice, Poland

Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica

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The paper presents in a comprehensive way issues related to propagation in a soil environment of vibrations originating during sheet piling vibratory driving....

Analysis of the Vibration Propagation in the Subsoil

Data publikacji: 28 lut 2015

Zakres stron: 9 - 19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sgem-2014-0023

Słowa kluczowe
soil characteristics in small strain range, triaxial tests, dynamic analysis

© 2014 Małgorzata Jastrzębska et. al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Analysis of the Vibration Propagation in the Subsoil

Data publikacji: 28 lut 2015

Zakres stron: 9 - 19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sgem-2014-0023

Słowa kluczowesoil characteristics in small strain range, triaxial tests, dynamic analysis

© 2014 Małgorzata Jastrzębska et. al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
soil characteristics in small strain range, triaxial tests, dynamic analysis