PAOCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON NUMERICAL METHODS IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING, DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS, 18-20JUNE 2014

Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering

Editors

Michael A. Hicks Section of Geo-Engineering, Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Faculty ofCivil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University ofTechnology, Delft, The Netherlands

Ronald B.J. Brinkgreve Section of Geo-Engineering, Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Faculty ofCivil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University ofTechnology, Delft, The Netherlands

Alexander Rohe Deltares, Delft, The Netherlands

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Table of contents

Preface Committees

Volume 1

Constitutive modelling

A better tool for general modeling of strain softening soils in slopes and excavations G. Aristorenas, C. Englert & J. Gomez

Modeling unloading/reloading in peat using a kinematic bubble model D. Boumezerone

lmplicit implementation of the Prevost model B. Cerfontaine & R. Charlier

A constitutive model of normally consolidated clay at small strains C. Chen & Z.M. Zhou

Attributes ofrotational hardening rules in clay plasticity Y.F. Da/alias & M. Taiebat

On the modelling of grain crushing in hypoplasticity H.K. Engin, H.P. Jostad & A. Rohe

The numerical implementation of elastic visco-plastic model for soft clays W.Q. Feng, Y.L. Li, J.H. Yin & Z.Y. Yin

A smart increment technique and its application to a bounding surface model J. Ghorbani, A. Noorzad & H. Shahnazari

Use of IWAN models for modelling anisotropic and cyclic behavior of clays G. Grimstad, J.A. Renningen & H.A. Nest

Modelling peat with an anisotropic time-dependent model for clay E.J. den Haan

Stress measures for interparticle sliding and particle rolling R.R. de Jager & F. Mo/enkamp

Numerical treatment of singularities in critical state modelling of soil behaviour J.M.P. Marado & J.M.M.C. Marques

Clay hypoplasticity model with explicit asymptotic state boundary surface formulation and very small strain stiffness anisotropy D. Maiin

Accuracy versus simplicity of anisotropic clay models A.G. Papadimitriou, G.I. Agapou/aki & Y.F. Dafalias

Anisotropie sand model and fabric evolution until the critical state A.G. Papadimitriou, Y.F. Da/alias & XS. Li

A response envelope based approach to hypoplastic constitutive models T. Pucker

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A new fonnulation to model the degradation in structured soils 97 V. Robin, 0. Cuisinier, F. Masrouri & A.A. Javadi

A new constitutive model for shotcrete 103 B. Schdlich & H.F. Schweiger

Constitutive modeling for sand with emphasis on the evolution of bounding and phase transfonnation Jines 109 P. Tasiopou/ou & N. Gerolymos

A preliminary study of rheological models for run-out distance modelling of sensitive clay debris 115 V.1'hakur, D. Nigussie & S.A . Degago

Application ofthe intergranular strain overlay to elastoplastic models 121 A.B. Tsegaye & T. Benz

lncorporating TESRA behaviour in an advanced constitutive model 127 A.J. Tuxworth & S.D. C/arke

lntroduction of a thennodynamically hyperelastic model for peat 133 L. Zhang & B. C. 0 'Kel/y

Uniqueness oftime-dependencies for Shanghai soft clay 139 Q.-Y. Zhu, Z.Y. Yin, Z.-X Wu & P.-Y. Hicher

Parameter determination in fie/d and /aboratory tests

Estimation of input parameters for CWFS model using RSM D.S. Cheon, Y.B. Jung, B.H. Choi, S.K. Cho & Y.H. Han

Significance of sample quality in settlement analysis of field cases S.A. Degago & G. Grimstad

A numerical classification of soils H. l1k & A.F.

Parameter identification for an advanced material model for intact rock D. Unteregger, G. Hofstetter, M. Haltmeier & A. Ostermann

A study on the compression curves of reconstituted clays with water contents Z. Zhuang, S. Horpibulsuk & M.D. Liu

Finite element related numerical methods

Stability verification against the basal heave failure mechanism at excavations in soft soils with FEM and classical methods G. Abea Nunez, Z. Borghei & E. Perau

Finite element modelling of geotechnical structures subjected to moving loads V. Galavi & R.B.J Brinkgreve

Tue mixed-type approach to finite-element analysis of geometrically linear beams resting on linear and non-linear Winkler soil models V. Jagodnik, G. Jelenic & t. Arbanas Survey of geotechnical numerical analysis use and training needs in industry A.S. Lees, F. Schmidt & B.M. Bacas

On the application ofthe material point method for offshore foundations L.J. Lim, A. Andreykiv & R.B.J. Brinkgreve

Use of generalized material point method (GIMP) to simulate shallow wedge penetration M.A. Llano-Serna & M.M. Farias

Parallel processing of excavation in soils with randomly generated material properties L. Margetts, I.M. Smith, L.M. Lever & D. V. Griffiths

Modelling ofpile installation using the material point method (MPM) NT. V. Phuong, A.F. van Tol, A.S.K. Elkadi & A. Rohe

Modelling of a pile row in a 2D plane strain FE-analysis J.J.M. Sluis, F. Besseling & P.H.H. Stuurwold

Extended zero-thickness interface element for accurate soil-pile interaction modelling H. Stutz, F. Wuttke & T. Benz

A comparison ofthe mesh dependence ofthe nonlocal and local strain softening methods in a biaxial compression analysis F.C. Summersgill, S. Kontoe & D.M. Potts

Numerical simulation of strain softening behavior at pile-soil interface S.A. Tan, J. Sun & K.S. Ng

Soil springs for a nuclear power plant building foundation E.O. Tastan, C. Cinkilic &A.K. Boscha

Simulation of Iiquefaction in layered Ioose and dense sand J.A.M. Teunissen & G.A.M. Kruse

Investigation of aspects of an implicit dynamic material point method implementation B. Wang, P.J. Vardon & M.A. Hicks

Modelling progressive failure with MPM A. Yerro, E. Alonso & N Pinyol

Other numerical methods

Numeri ca! simulation of snow avalanches: Modelling dilatative processes with cohesion in

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rapid granular shear flows 327 P. Bartelt, 0. Buser, Y. Bhler, L. Dreier & M. Christen

Application of the hybrid ACPI ANFIS method for the prediction of surface settlement induced by an earth pressure tunnel boring machine with consideration ofthe encountered geology 333 D. Bouayad & F. Emeriault

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Debris flow simulation considering distributed multiple source materials 339 H.X. Chen & L.M. Zhang

Particle failure in DEM models of crushable soil response 345 M. 0. Ciantia, M. Arroyo, A. Gens & R Calvetti

Fluid effects in sand production simulations coupling DEM with CFD 351 N. Climent, M. Arroyo, A. Gens & C. 0 'Sullivan

A numerical investigation on debris avalanche propagation 357 S. Cuomo, L. Cascini, M. Pastor & G.C. Castorino

Representation of capillary forces in polydisperse granular assemblies in the pendular regime 363 A. Faramarzi, 0. Harireche & A.M. Alani

A non-conventional BEM for seismic wave propagation in continuously inhomogeneous half-plane 367 1.-K. Fontara, R Wuttke, T. Rangelov & P. Dineva

Macroelement modeling ofpiles in cohesive soil subjected to combined lateral and axial loading 373 N. Gerolymos, 0. Papakyriakopoulos & R.B.J. Brinkgreve

A simplified calculation method for maximum lateral deformation of diaphragm walls induced by deep excavation in clays 379 XR Jin & S. T. Liang

Ultimate limit state design ofretaining walls with numerical methods 385 G. Katsigiannis, P. Ferreira & R. Fuentes

Back calculation ofCPT tests in silt by the Press-Replace technique 391 P. Paniagua, S. Norda/ & H.K. Engin

Incorporating scale effects in shallow footings in a hypoplastic macroelement model 397 D. Salciarini, B. Bienen & C. Tamagnini

DEM modeling and identification of representative element volume of soil skeleton 403 M.R. Salehi Sadaghiani, H. Jentsch, K. Fau/stich, P. Wink/er & KJ. Witt

Effect of friction on the force distribution in sheared granular materials 409 A. Singh, V. Magnanimo & S. Luding

Recent advances in the application of discontinuity layout optimization to geotechnical limit analysis problems 415 C.C. Smith, M. Gilbert, S.J. Hawksbee &A. Babiker

Study on borehole stability in fractured rock mass in deep ground using distinct element method 421 A. Taheri, S. Akkari, R. Frimpong, J. Ji & S. Piotrowski

Contact law in granular assemblies: From statics to dynamics 427 L. Zhang, S. Lambert, R Nicot & R Bourrier

3D DEM simulation of a centrifuge model pile test 433 Z. Zhang & Y.H. Wang

Probabi/istic methods and neural networks

Effects of layered stochastic soil profile on the coherency functions of spatially variable seismic ground motions: Case study ofthe El-Asnam region (NW Algeria) K. Af ifC