TITLE:
Numerical Study of Piles Group under Seismic Loading in Frictinal Soil—Inclination Effect
AUTHORS:
Fadi Hage Chehade, Marwan Sadek, Douaa Bachir
KEYWORDS:
Frictional Soil; Inclination; Interaction; Non Linear; Numerical Modeling; Piles Group
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Earthquake Research,
Vol.3 No.1,
February
27,
2014
ABSTRACT: Recent devastating earthquakes in some countries, such as Pakistan, Turkey, Algeria and China, call to the mind the high risk exposure of Lebanon which is located over an active seismic zone. Many experts shared the view that major seismic event may occur in Lebanon in the future. Moreover, many earthquakes, of low magnitudes between three and four, have been registered in Lebanon during 2008. These events have increased the anxiety of Lebanese people because of the poor quality of the constructions and their behavior under moderate or severe earthquake events. The efficient way to minimize seismic effects, material and human losses, is the prevention. The system piles-foundation is an appropriate way and widely used to ensure the stability of constructions when subjected to seismic excitation. It seems necessary to study the interaction of pile-foundation-pile-cap-structure in the case of non linear soil behavior and the interface pile-soil. The study will be also conducted by using measures recorded during real earthquakes for example in Turkey (Kocaeli, 1999). In this paper, we present a numerical modeling of the interaction of using FLAC3D software. According to soil behavior and pile inclination, parametric studies are also performed. The analysis of the results could give the better piles group configuration in order to minimize the seismic effect on the structures.