Membrane Effect of Geogrid Reinforcement for Low Highway Piled Embankment under Moving Vehicle Loads

Autor: Yan Zhuang, Shunlei Hu, Xiangwei Song, Haoru Zhang, Wang Chen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Symmetry, Vol 14, Iss 10, p 2162 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-8994
DOI: 10.3390/sym14102162
Popis: In this paper, the membrane effect of geogrid reinforcement was investigated based on numerical simulation to understand the serviceability and deformation of highway piled embankments under moving vehicle loads. The membrane effect of geogrid reinforcement in low embankments (i.e., the ratio of embankment height to pile spacing is less than 1.5) was clearly emphasized. It has been found that the maximum settlement of geogrid occurs in the central area between the piles, and the maximum tension was concentrated at the corner of the pile cap. Due to the attenuation of the soil arching effect under moving dynamic loads and the punching mechanism, the settlement and tension of the geogrid increased considerably by approximately 35% and 23% compared to those under static loads. A parametric study was also achieved, and the results presented that the geogrid reinforcement tension increased by increasing the pile spacing, embankment height and geogrid stiffness, vehicle wheel load and vehicle velocity. It was also found that the reinforcement tension was most sensitive to the pile spacing among all the parameters considered in this paper, whose magnitude increased by approximately 104% as the pile spacing increased from 2.0 m to 2.5 m under dynamic loads.
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