UNSTRUCT - A FINITE ELEMENT METHOD PROGRAM FOR UNSATURATED SOILS

A computational model based on the Unsaturated Soil Theory Program, UNSTRUCT, permits the stress-strain analysis of soils subjected to matric suction changes. It uses the total stress and matric suction variables in the unsaturated zone and the effective stress in the saturated zone, plane-strain analysis and oedometric or hyperbolic non-linear unsaturated soil constitutive models. Three geotechnical problems are analysed: a double-oedometer laboratory test, a shallow foundation over a collapsible-expansive soil layer subjected to the water level rising and a poorly compacted homogeneous earth dam subjected to the first reservoir filling. The program furnishes results that are in good agreement with the expected for these analysed problems. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 881647.

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• Corporate Authors:

  AA Balkema

  P.O. Box 1675
  Rotterdam,   Netherlands  BR-3000
• Authors:
  • MIRANDA, A N
  • MENESCAL, R A
  • SILVA FILHO, F C
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNSATURATED SOILS/UNSAT '95/PARIS/FRANCE/6-8 SEPTEMBER 1995. VOLUME 2
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1117-22

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Embankments; Failure; Finite element method; Flow; Fluid dynamics; Mathematical models; Percent saturation; Soil suction; Soils; Swelling soils
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 5907: Degree of saturation (mater); 2801: Embankment; 5520: Failure; 6490: Finite element method; 5430: Flow (fluid); 6473: Mathematical model; 4156: Soil; 5771: Suction; 5203: Swelling (soil)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Geotechnology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00729162
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 90-5410-583-6
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 12 1996 12:00AM