Analysis of saturated dense sand‐structure system and comparison with results from shaking table test

Abstract

Abstract An effective stress method is presented for the analysis of liquefaction of ground including soil‐structure interaction, based on an explicit‐implicit finite element method. A simple constitutive model is developed to be incorporated in the effective stress method. The constitutive model consists of the Ramberg‐Osgood model extended to two‐dimensional problems and a new dilatancy model. The effectiveness of the constitutive model is examined with results of a simple shear test. Besides, the effective stress method is verified by comparing its numerical results with results of a shaking table test. It is found that the present method can simulate well the response of a saturated dense sand‐structure system. The difference of the response computed by the effective stress method and the total stress method is discussed. It is found that the total stress method can simulate the response of the saturated sand within an accumulating excess pore water pressure of less than 70 per cent of the initial overburden stress.