Damage Evolution of Underground Structural Reinforced Concrete Small-Scale Static-Loading Experiments

Small-scale RC models of both piles and tunnel ducts were produced as mockups of reality and loaded under soil confinement conditionsto investigate the damage evolution of structural RC interacting with soil. Experimental verifications usinga 3D nonlinear FE analysis program called COM3D, which was developed at the University of Tokyo, are introduced. This analysis has been used in practice for seismic performance assessment of underground ducts and in-ground LNG storage tanks in consideration of soil-structure interactionunder static and dynamic loading. Varying modes of failure of RCpilessubjected to different magnitudes of soil confinement were successfully reproduced in the proposed small-scale experiments and numerically simulated as well. Analytical simulation was applied to RC tunnel mockups under a wide variety of depth and soil confinement conditions, and reasonable matching was confirmed.

Authors:

• Ahmed Mohammed Youssef Mohammed
• Mohammad Reza Okhovat
• Koichi Maekawa

Keywords:

• Soil-Structure Interaction
• RC pile
• RC Tunnel

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