A coupled solid-fluid FE-model for partially saturated soils,characterized by modeling the soil as a three-phase material consisting of a deformable soil skeleton and the fluid phases water and air,is reviewed briefly...A coupled solid-fluid FE-model for partially saturated soils,characterized by modeling the soil as a three-phase material consisting of a deformable soil skeleton and the fluid phases water and air,is reviewed briefly.As a constitutive model for the soil skeleton,the well-known Barcelona Basic model(BBM)is employed,which is formulated in terms of net stress and matric suction.For the BBM,a computationally efficient return mapping algorithm is proposed,which only requires the solution of a scalar nonlinear equation at the integration point level.The coupled FE-model is applied to the coupled transient numerical simulation of the water flow and the deformations and stresses in an embankment dam.展开更多
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文摘A coupled solid-fluid FE-model for partially saturated soils,characterized by modeling the soil as a three-phase material consisting of a deformable soil skeleton and the fluid phases water and air,is reviewed briefly.As a constitutive model for the soil skeleton,the well-known Barcelona Basic model(BBM)is employed,which is formulated in terms of net stress and matric suction.For the BBM,a computationally efficient return mapping algorithm is proposed,which only requires the solution of a scalar nonlinear equation at the integration point level.The coupled FE-model is applied to the coupled transient numerical simulation of the water flow and the deformations and stresses in an embankment dam.
