A hypoplastic macroelement formulation for single batter piles in sand |
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| Authors: | Zheng Li Panagiotis Kotronis Sandra Escoffier Claudio Tamagnini |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Urban Security and Disaster Engineering of Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China;2. Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Université de Nantes, CNRS UMR 6183, GeM (Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique), Nantes, France;3. IFSTTAR, GERS, SV, Bouguenais, France;4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Batter piles are widely used in geotechnical engineering when substantial lateral resistance is needed or to avoid the interference with existing underground constructions. Nevertheless, there is a lack of fast numerical tools for nonlinear soil‐structure interactions problems for this type of foundation. A novel hypoplastic macroelement is proposed, able to reproduce the nonlinear response of a single batter pile in sand under monotonic and cyclic static loadings. The behavior of batter piles (15°, 30°, and 45°) is first numerically investigated using 3D finite element modeling and compared with the behavior of vertical piles. It is shown that their response mainly depends on the pile inclination and the loading direction. Then, starting from the macroelement for single vertical piles in sand by Li et al (Acta Geotechnica, 11(2):373‐390, 2016), an extension is proposed to take into account the pile inclination introducing simple analytical equations in the expression describing the failure surface. 3D finite element numerical models are adopted to validate the macroelement that is proven able to reproduce the nonlinear behavior in terms of global quantities (forces‐displacements) and to significantly reduce the necessary computational time. |
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| Keywords: | batter pile hypoplasticity macroelement soil‐structure interaction |
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