Soil liquefaction is a widely researched field that aims to minimize the devastating consequences of earthquakes. Researchers have tried to capture the liquefaction and post liquefaction behaviour of soil using advanced constitutive models. These constitutive models are based on soil plasticity formulation, which requires estimating soil properties from advanced laboratory tests. Various constitutive models have different input parameters, albeit trying to capture the same response of the soil. This study considers the pressure-dependent multi yield surface PDMY03 model and PM4Sand model for a comparative study. A finite element analysis is conducted for a free field plane strain scenario to compare the liquefaction triggering for the selected soil profile subjected to the earthquake motions at the base using these two constitutive models in OpenSees. It is observed that PDMY03 model predicts a lesser depth of liquefaction than the PM4Sand model for the earthquake motions.

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Free Field Plane Strain Simulation of Soil Liquefaction Using Finite Element Analysis

  • Tanmay Gupta,
  • Madan Kumar Annam

摘要

Soil liquefaction is a widely researched field that aims to minimize the devastating consequences of earthquakes. Researchers have tried to capture the liquefaction and post liquefaction behaviour of soil using advanced constitutive models. These constitutive models are based on soil plasticity formulation, which requires estimating soil properties from advanced laboratory tests. Various constitutive models have different input parameters, albeit trying to capture the same response of the soil. This study considers the pressure-dependent multi yield surface PDMY03 model and PM4Sand model for a comparative study. A finite element analysis is conducted for a free field plane strain scenario to compare the liquefaction triggering for the selected soil profile subjected to the earthquake motions at the base using these two constitutive models in OpenSees. It is observed that PDMY03 model predicts a lesser depth of liquefaction than the PM4Sand model for the earthquake motions.