Analysis of Settlement and Pore Pressure Induced by Cyclic Loading of a Silo
by Mohammed A. Rahal, (Sr. Res. Sci., Geomecanics, Heat Transfer and Materials Laboratory, Natl. Inst. of Appl. Sci., 20 Ave. des Buttes de Coësmes, 35 043 Rennes Cedex, France) and Alain R. Vuez, (Assoc. Prof., Geomecanics, Heat Transfer and Materials Laboratory, Natl. Inst. of Appl. Sci., 20 Ave. des Buttes de Coësmes, 35 043 Rennes Cedex, France)
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 124, No. 12, December 1998, pp. 1208-1210, (doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(1998)124:12(1208))
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Technical Note |
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Examples of periodic loads applied on a soil layer appear in practice in the filling and emptying of a silo or a tank. This loading is not dynamic loading. This paper develops a solution to the consolidation equation with boundary conditions that are cyclic with time. Measurements of settlements of the Ca’ Mello silo are compared with a case of sinusoidal loading. Good agreement is observed for the settlements. It appears that the pore pressure at the center of the soil layer is sufficiently higher than the amplitude of the applied load. |
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