- Title
- Particle-based modelling of cortical meshes for soil retaining applications
- Creator
- Gabrieli, F.; Pol, A.; Thoeni, K.; Mazzon, N.
- Relation
- 9th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE 2018). Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering IX, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE 2018), June 25-27, 2018, Porto, Portugal (Porto, Portugal 25-27 June, 2018) p. 391-397
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429446931-48
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Metallic cortical wire meshes are extensively used to protect slopes and infrastructures in mountain regions. These structures are constituted by periodic patterns of steel wires and have a ductile non-linear behaviour. The installed mesh panels generally experience non-trivial boundary conditions which combined with their high deformability and the chance of local ruptures make these structures difficult to be modelled as a continuum. The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is particularly well suited for modelling the soil-mesh interaction problem, taking advantage of its potentials in handling large deformation, contact-detachment and interlocking between particles and the mesh. The mesh is modelled with two approaches and a puncture test on a single mesh panel is used for calibration. After that a simplified soil-mesh problem with a single mesh panel is considered and compared with the results of a punch-mesh problem. The force-displacement behaviour experienced by anchors and edges of the panels are also discussed.
- Subject
- cortical meshes; soil; metallic cortical wire; discrete element method
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1403464
- Identifier
- uon:35173
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138331983
- Language
- eng
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