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Vibro-Injection Pile Installation in Sand: Part II—Numerical and Experimental Investigation

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In Part 1 of this series of papers a macroscopic two-equation (two-field) reduced model for the mechanics of the multi-material flow associated with vibro-injection pile installation in saturated sand was derived. Here we employ this model to develop a so-called multi-material arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (MMALE) method. MMALE avoids the disadvantages of the classical approaches in computational continuum mechanics concerning large deformations and evolving material interfaces. The numerical implementation of this method will be outlined, and then the experimental investigations will be presented that have been carried out in order to validate the computational model. Among these investigations, small-scale model tests in chambers with observing window have been designed step-by-step to reveal penetration and vibro-injection pile installation phenomena.

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The presented work was carried out under the financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG; grants SA 310/26-1 and SA 310/26-2) as part of the DFG Research Unit FOR 1136, which is gratefully acknowledged. We thank our colleagues in this research unit for several fruitful discussions about our work.

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Savidis, S.A., Aubram, D., Rackwitz, F. (2015). Vibro-Injection Pile Installation in Sand: Part II—Numerical and Experimental Investigation. In: Triantafyllidis, T. (eds) Holistic Simulation of Geotechnical Installation Processes. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18170-7_6

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