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A polynomial mathematical tool for foundation-soil-foundation interaction

  • Sbartai, Badreddine
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.547-560
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    • 2020
  • This paper studies the dynamic foundation-soil-foundation interaction for two square rigid foundations embedded in a viscoelastic soil layer. The vibrations come from only one rigid foundation placed in the soil layer and subjected to harmonic loads of translation, rocking, and torsion. The required dynamic response of rigid surface foundations constitutes the solution of the wave equations obtained by taking account of the conditions of interaction. The solution is formulated using the frequency domain Boundary Element Method (BEM) in conjunction with the Kausel-Peek Green's function for a layered stratum, with the aid of the Thin Layer Method (TLM), to study the dynamic interaction between adjacent foundations. This approach allows the establishment of a mathematical model that enables us to determine the dynamic displacements amplitude of adjacent foundations according to their different separations, the depth of the substratum, foundations masss, foundations embedded, and the frequencies of excitation. This paper attempts to introduce an approach based on a polynomial mathematical tool conducted from several results of numerical methods (BEM-TLM) so that practicing civil engineers can evaluation the dynamic foundations displacements more easy.

Seismic response of a rigid foundation embedded in a viscoelastic soil by taking into account the soil-foundation interaction

  • Messioud, Salah;Sbartai, Badreddine;Dias, Daniel
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.58 no.5
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    • pp.887-903
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    • 2016
  • This study analyses the seismic response of a three-dimensional (3-D) rigid massless square foundation resting or embedded in a viscoelastic soil limited by rigid bedrock. The foundation is subjected to harmonic oblique seismic waves P, SV, SH and R. The key step is the characterization of the soil-foundation interaction by computing the impedance matrix and the input motion matrix. A 3-D frequency boundary element method (BEM) in conjunction with the thin layer method (TLM) is adapted for the seismic analysis of the foundation. The dynamic response of the rigid foundation is solved from the wave equations by taking into account the soil-foundation interaction. The solution is formulated using the frequency BEM with the Green's function obtained from the TLM. This approach has been applied to analyze the effect of soilstructure interaction on the seismic response of the foundation as a function of the kind of incident waves, the angles of incident waves, the wave's frequencies and the embedding of foundation. The parametric results show that the non-vertical incident waves, the embedment of foundation, and the wave's frequencies have important impact on the dynamic response of rigid foundations.

Scattering characteristic analysis of Fresnel zone plate lens using TLM (TLM법을 이용한 프레넬 존 플레이트 렌즈 산란특성 해석)

  • 김태용
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.15-18
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    • 2003
  • Most numerical techniques such as FEM, BEM, and MOM are able to analize electromagnetic scattering problems from arbitrary shapes. Although these methods could be applied to compute electromagnetic scattering problems in frequency domain, it was limited for electrodynamic problem in time domain. In this paper, electromagnetic scattering problem from Fresnel zone plate lens are considered. Some numerical results computed by TLM are compared with Kirchhoff's approximation and PO method.

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Electromagnetic Field Analysis based on Java Multi-Threads (자바 스레드 기반 고속 전자계 해석)

  • Kim, Tae Yong;Lee, Hoon-Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.53-55
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    • 2013
  • In general, various numerical techniques such as MoM, TLM, FEM, and BEM can be introduced to analyze some microwave device and electromagnetic propagation problems. Numerical simulator based on Java thread-level parallelism for improving computation performance is implemented and estimated.

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Harmonic seismic waves response of 3D rigid surface foundation on layer soil

  • Messioud, Salah;Sbartai, Badredine;Dias, Daniel
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.109-118
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    • 2019
  • This study, analyses the seismic response for a rigid massless square foundation resting on a viscoelastic soil layer limited by rigid bedrock. The foundation is subjected either to externally applied forces or to obliquely incident seismic body or surface harmonic seismic waves P, SV and SH. A 3-D frequency domain BEM formulation in conjunction with the thin layer method (TLM) is adapted here for the solution of elastodynamic problems and used for obtained the seismic response. The mathematical approach is based on the method of integral equations in the frequency domain using the formalism of Green's functions (Kausel and Peck 1982) for layered soil, the impedance functions are calculated by the compatibility condition. In this study, The key step is the characterization of the soil-foundation interaction with the input motion matrix. For each frequency the impedance matrix connects the applied forces to the resulting displacement, and the input motion matrix connects the displacement vector of the foundation to amplitudes of the free field motion. This approach has been applied to analyze the effect of soil-structure interaction on the seismic response of the foundation resting on a viscoelastic soil layer limited by rigid bedrock.