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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 108
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Edited by: J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 7

Finite Element Analyses of Soil-Foundation Interaction and Comparison with Experimental Measurements

R. Cajka and J. Labudkova

Department of Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
R. Cajka, J. Labudkova, "Finite Element Analyses of Soil-Foundation Interaction and Comparison with Experimental Measurements", in J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 7, 2015. doi:10.4203/ccp.108.7
Keywords: foundation structure, soil-structure interaction, interaction models, contact stress, finite element method, experimental measurement.

Summary
For decades attention has been paid to interaction of foundation structures and subsoil and the development of interaction models. Currently there are several software applications for the interaction of foundations and subsoil. The purpose of this paper is to compare the resulting deformations of the slab, subsidence of the subsoil, bending moments and contact stress calculated by different software applications based on the finite element method. The deformations calculated using the finite element software are often different from those measured in real structures or experimental samples. Therefore, the subsoil-structure interaction is still topical and calculation methods are still being developed. In order to obtain reliable results, the experimental tests, laboratory and field tests and numerical modelling methods should be used.

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