Influences of overburden pressure and soil dilation on soil nail pull-out resistance

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• 作者：Li-Jun Su ; Jian-Hua Yin ; Wan-Huan Zhou
• 关键词：Soil nailing ; Pull-out resistance ; Finite element ; Overburden pressure ; Dilation ; Parametric study
• 刊名：Computers and Geotechnics
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：June 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：37
• 期：4
• 页码：555-564
• 全文大小：1135 K

文摘

Soil nailing is the most popular technique for stabilizing newly formed and existing sub-standard slopes in Hong Kong because of its economic and technical advantages. The nail–soil interface shear resistance is an important parameter in design of soil nailed structures. A three-dimensional finite element model was established and used for simulating soil nail pull-out tests. The finite element model was verified by comparing simulated results with measured data. The agreement between the experimental and simulated results in terms of both average pull-out shear stress and stress variation was very good. Using this finite element model, a parametric study was carried out to study the influences of the overburden pressure and soil dilation angle on the soil nail pull-out resistance. The simulated peak pull-out resistance was not directly related to the overburden pressure, which was coincident with the observations in laboratory pull-out tests. The simulated pull-out resistance increased significantly with the increase in dilation angle of the shearing zone. This analysis indicated that the constrained dilatancy of the nail–soil interface and the soil surrounding the nail contributed a lot to the development of peak pull-out resistance.