The ultimate pullout capacity of anchors in frictional soils

RS Merifield, SW Sloan - Canadian geotechnical journal, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
Au cours des trente dernières années, divers chercheurs ont proposé des techniques
approximatives pour estimer la capacité d'arrachement des ancrages dans le sol. Comme la …

The modelling of anchors using the material point method

CJ Coetzee, PA Vermeer… - International journal for …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The ultimate capacity of anchors is determined using the material point method (MPM). MPM
is a so‐called meshless method capable of modelling large displacements, deformations …

Three-dimensional lower-bound solutions for the stability of plate anchors in sand

RS Merifield, AV Lyamin, SW Sloan - Géotechnique, 2006 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Soil anchors are commonly used as foundation systems for structures that require uplift or
lateral resistance. These types of structure include transmission towers, sheet pile walls and …

Lateral pipe–soil interaction in sand with reference to scale effect

PJ Guo, DFE Stolle - Journal of geotechnical and geoenvironmental …, 2005 - ascelibrary.org
This paper investigates the pipe–soil interaction for pipes buried in cohesionless soil when
subjected to lateral ground movement. A review and reappraisal of the literature is …

Three-dimensional simulations of plate anchor pullout in granular materials

TM Evans, N Zhang - International Journal of Geomechanics, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
Plate anchors are embedded into the ocean floor to provide holding capacity for offshore
structures. Anchor holding capacity is a function of both the anchor and soil properties …

Active and passive arching stresses in c′-ϕ′ soils: A sensitivity study using computational limit analysis

L Wang, B Leshchinsky, TM Evans, Y Xie - Computers and Geotechnics, 2017 - Elsevier
Vertical soil arching, commonly known as the “trapdoor mechanism,” is a pervasive
phenomenon in various geotechnical applications that can be evaluated through a variety of …

Evaluation of theoretical models to predict the pullout capacity of a vertical anchor embedded in cohesionless soil

R Jadid, AR Shahriar, MR Rahman, T Imtiaz - … and Geological Engineering, 2019 - Springer
Vertical anchor is a structural member designed to resist the pullout forces and ensure
stability of the geotechnical structures. At present, an accurate, reliable, efficient, and …

Seismic bearing capacity for embedded footings on sloping ground

J Kumar, P Ghosh - Geotechnique, 2006 - icevirtuallibrary.com
ANALYSIS The soil mass was assumed to follow Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion and an
associated flow rule. The collapse mechanism was chosen to comprise a logarithmic spiral …

Uplift capacity of anchors in layered sand using finite-element limit analysis: Formulation and results

P Bhattacharya, J Kumar - International Journal of Geomechanics, 2016 - ascelibrary.org
The vertical pullout capacity of strip and circular plate anchors embedded horizontally in a
layered sandy medium was computed by using the plane strain and axisymmetric lower …

Passive pressure coefficients, critical failure surface and its kinematic admissibility

J Kumar, KSS Rao - Géotechnique, 1997 - icevirtuallibrary.com
INTRODUCTION The determination of earth pressures on structures is a particularly
important problem in geotechnical engineering, for instance problems related to …