FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS IMPLEMENTED WITH PARTICLE DISCRETIZATION FOR ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED STABILIZED SOIL WITH GEOGRID

Abstract

In this paper, numerical analysis method is proposed to simulate tensile resistance behaviour of reinforced stabilized soil with geogrid. New models of stabilized soil or geogrid are developed for finite element method implemented with particle discretization. Laboratory test result that examined the influence of the amount of stabilizer and the confinig pressure was simulated. It is shown that the proposal method has applicability in the evaluation of the effect of the improvement.