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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
Volume 27, Issue 8, Pages 2678-2699Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19648189.2020.1795724
Keywords
Granular soil; internal erosion; critical state; hydromechanical coupling; fines content
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This paper presents a hydro-mechanical continuous modelling approach based on suffusion to study the impact of internal erosion in engineering structures. It combines a relevant mechanical model for granular soils considering fines content dependency, and a hydraulic model for suffusion. The reliability and applicability of this approach for internal erosion problems are demonstrated through simulations of laboratory tests and an example of a dike-on-foundation problem.
In order to study the impact of internal erosion at the scale of an engineering structure, a hydro-mechanical continuous modelling approach considering suffusion is needed. It requires a relevant mechanical model for granular soils considering the-dependency (fines content) and a hydraulic model for suffusion to control the changes in the fines content. To this purpose, the mechanical models for granular soil, the unified modelling approaches for-dependency of granular soils and the hydraulic modelling of suffusion are first reviewed. Then, a hydro-mechanical model considering both suffusion and mechanical loading is developed by combining the three components. For each component of the model, alternative choices are provided. Simulations of laboratory tests as well as an example of a dike-on-foundation problem demonstrated the reliability and applicability of this coupled numerical approach for internal erosion problems.
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