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of soil-structure interaction
A.H. Al-Defae
Ph.D Student, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK and Wasit University, Iraq.
J.A. Knappett
Senior Lecturer, Division of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
ABSTRACT: In this paper, three dynamic centrifuge tests were conducted on a pile-reinforced cohesionless
slope at 1:50 scale to demonstrate that a recently developed model reinforced concrete (RC) pile can model pro-
totype soil-structure interaction (SSI) correctly. Two different pile models were used, namely: (i) model RC
piles, representative of B = 500 mm square precast piles and (ii) ‘elastic’ piles, fabricated from aluminium-alloy
to match the elastic bending stiffness, EI, of the model RC piles. Two of the models used RC piles and the third
used ‘elastic’ instrumented piles. In each model, the piles were installed in a row, midway between the toe and
crest, at a spacing ratio s/B = 3.5. From the induced bending moments measured in the elastic piles and the
measured slope settlements it is shown that elastic soil-pile interaction is replicated accurately by the model RC
piles, so long as the induced bending moments are below the moment capacity of the model RC section. It is
therefore verified that the elastic behaviour of the model concrete translates to prototype scale.
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