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Estudio del comportamiento del suelo en el rango de las pequeñas deformaciones y desarrollo del modelo constitutivo ephyss

  • Autores: Javier Castellón López
  • Directores de la Tesis: Alberto Ledesma Villalba (dir. tes.)
  • Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2020
  • Idioma: español
  • Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: César Sagaseta Millán (presid.), Antonio Gens Sole (secret.), Manuel Pastor Pérez (voc.)
  • Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería del Terreno por la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya
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    • Soil behavior in the range of small strains should be considered in the analysis of geotechnical problems when sensitive elements are affected, which is very common in urban environments. However, some of the tests that allow to determinate soil parameters in the range of small strains are still not sufficiently extended in geotechnical engineering professional practice, hindering its estimation and use in constitutive models. Nowadays, the constitutive model Hardening Soil with Small Strain Stiffness (HS-SS) of Plaxis is practically the only one with an extended use in the professional practice that considers such behavior, while the rest of this type of models are generally limited to an academic use. Despite its great advantages, some aspects of the HS-SS model that could be improved have been detected, as well as some inconsistencies whose effects can have a considerable influence on the numerical simulations of boundary problems, as these are cumulative.

      This thesis analyzes and classifies 48 soil constitutive models that consider soil behavior in the range of small strains, characterized by being nonlinear, hysteretic and dependent on recent history. For this, different classification criteria have been used, some of them pre-existing and others established in this work.

      A new elastoplastic soil constitutive model denominated Elastoplastic Hysteretic Small Strain (EPHYSS) has been developed, which is composed by the Hysteretic Quasi-Hypoelastic (HQH) model and the Hardening Soil Modified (HSmod) model. The EPHYSS model describes, on the one hand, the nonlinear reversible, hysteretic and dependent on recent history soil behavior by using the HQH model, which considers the strain-induced anisotropy, and, on the other hand, the soil plastic behavior by using the Cap-Cone HSmod model. The EPHYSS model state variables define different short and long-term memory levels that provide it with robustness for the reproduction of soil hysteretic behavior. Among them, the deviatoric strain history tensor and the maximum value of the shear stiffness corresponding to the active degradation curve allow to reproduce infinite degradation curves according to the level of strain reversal, which confers great versatility to the model and adaptability to experimental results. The EPHYSS model code, entirely provided in this thesis, has been written in FORTRAN and implemented in Plaxis through the User Defined Soil Model (UDSM) modulus.

      A verification of the EPHYSS model has been made, as well as a validation using different experimental tests, numerical tests and boundary value problems of works in which some type of monitoring has been performed. Among these works, there is a large urban excavation in Barcelona, for whose analysis resonant column tests and various in situ measurements have been conducted. It is concluded that the EPHYSS model significantly improves the approximation to the experimental data with respect to the HS-SS model in the simulations of the different tests and boundary value problems, especially in those that present reversals in deviatoric loadings; resolves the inconsistencies of the latter; has a reasonable computational cost; provides flexibility in the use of different plastic formulations; and requires simple parameters, most of them common to those of the HS-SS model, which distinguishes it from other complex constitutive models that are usually limited to an academic use. All this makes the EPHYSS model a model that can be used for analysis and design in geotechnical engineering practice.


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