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Influence of Soil Heterogeneity on the Contact Problems in Geotechnical Engineering

Hao Gu and Kang Liu    

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Contact problems are widely encountered in geotechnical engineering, such as the contact between soils and concrete used in earth and rockfill dams, tunnels and coastal levees. Due to the unknown contact region and contact forces, the contact problems have strong boundary nonlinearity. In addition, soils have been recognized as heterogeneous materials in geotechnical engineering. The existence of the soil heterogeneity increases the nonlinearity of the contact problems. Currently, the contact problems are mostly analysed without considering the soil heterogeneity, which may not reflect the contact behavior well. In order to investigate the influence of soil heterogeneity on the contact problems, in this paper, a simple plane-strain contact problem is analysed as an example. In this example, Young?s modulus is taken to be a spatially variable. The local average subdivision (LAS) is used to model the heterogeneity of Young?s modulus. The penalty method is utilised to determine the contact behavior. By the first use of linking the penalty method with the LAS, the proposed approach can be used to analyse the contact problems considering soil heterogeneity. The results show that the influence of soil heterogeneity on the elastic contact problems is significant. The contact forces of the heterogeneous case present apparent variation compared to the results of the homogeneous case. The distribution of the contact force at a specific point is also normal when Young?s modulus is normally distributed, moreover, the coefficient of variation (COV) and the horizontal scale of fluctuation of Young?s modulus affect the extent of variation of the normal contact forces. The standard deviation of the normal contact force increases with the increase of the COV and decreases with the increase of the horizontal scale of fluctuation of Young?s modulus. From the analyses, to better predict the deformation/stress in the contact problems, heterogeneity needs to be considered.

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