On the contrary, in the proposed model, the need for the said pre-determination of soil behavior is eliminated. As discussed in Section 2.3.5, soil behavior in the model is being classified into four broad and general groups: drained-dilative, drained-contractive, undrained-dilative and ...
wherethestructuralbehaviorofadrilledshaftismodeledasabeamandthesoil-shaftinteractionisrepresentedbydiscrete,non-linearspringscharacterizedbyp-ycurves.Anumberofp-ycurvesforclayshavebeendevelopedbyMatlock(1970),ReeseandWelch(1975),EvansandDuncan(1982),GaziogluandO’Neill(1984),DunnavantandO’Neill(1989),Hsiung...
A linear model of the reduction factor (µ) was then provided. Jiang et al. [9] provided an elastic stress solution of the soil in a slope under the self-weight, which proved to be accurate only for a narrow range of the slope angle. Considering that the current researches for the ...