Location
Arlington, Virginia
Date
16 Aug 2008, 8:45am - 12:30pm
Abstract
Liquefaction has occurred during numerous earthquakes and it has caused damages and catastrophic failures. This phenomenon takes place due to the excess pore pressure development in loose saturated granular soils. Researchers have attempted to predict these phenomena (excess pore water pressure and liquefaction) using constitutive modeling and numerical approaches. In this paper, a numerical modeling procedure is presented to predict the seismic excess pore water pressure using a fully coupled effective stress analysis. A few cyclic and monotonic element tests and a level ground centrifuge test conducted during VELACS project were utilized to calibrate the numerical models. The Mohr-Coulomb elastic-perfectly plastic and the Martin et. al. (1975) excess pore water pressure build up models were concurrently incorporated in the analysis. This study focuses on a reasonable step by step procedure in order to adjust and obtain the calibration parameters of these models. Comparing the excess pore pressure buildup time histories of the numerical and experimental models (both element and centrifuge tests) showed that the Martin et al. (1975) models can be used in the numerical assessment of excess pore water pressure with an acceptable degree of preciseness.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
6th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Nabili, Sara; Jafarian, Yaser; and Baziar, Mohammad H., "Evaluation of the Martin et al. (1975) Pore Pressure Build Up Model Using Laboratory Test Data" (2008). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 9.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/6icchge/session03/9
Evaluation of the Martin et al. (1975) Pore Pressure Build Up Model Using Laboratory Test Data
Arlington, Virginia
Liquefaction has occurred during numerous earthquakes and it has caused damages and catastrophic failures. This phenomenon takes place due to the excess pore pressure development in loose saturated granular soils. Researchers have attempted to predict these phenomena (excess pore water pressure and liquefaction) using constitutive modeling and numerical approaches. In this paper, a numerical modeling procedure is presented to predict the seismic excess pore water pressure using a fully coupled effective stress analysis. A few cyclic and monotonic element tests and a level ground centrifuge test conducted during VELACS project were utilized to calibrate the numerical models. The Mohr-Coulomb elastic-perfectly plastic and the Martin et. al. (1975) excess pore water pressure build up models were concurrently incorporated in the analysis. This study focuses on a reasonable step by step procedure in order to adjust and obtain the calibration parameters of these models. Comparing the excess pore pressure buildup time histories of the numerical and experimental models (both element and centrifuge tests) showed that the Martin et al. (1975) models can be used in the numerical assessment of excess pore water pressure with an acceptable degree of preciseness.
