Plastic dome-shaped interface elements posed between ground and concrete slabs may be an alternative method for realizing industrial pavements, thus avoiding the use of a classical and customarily utilized granular interface layer. To evaluate the effectiveness of this construction technique, a full-scale experimental investigation was recently carried out. Its results have been used to calibrate a finite element model to describe the overall slab behaviour as a function of relevant geometrical and soil parameters. The paper outlines some interesting outcomes of the tests carried out so far, and also shows the applicability of the numerical model to describe the problem of soil-structure interaction.
Influence of soil properties on the behaviour of concrete pavements casted on dome shaped interface elements
SIMONINI, PAOLO
2005
Abstract
Plastic dome-shaped interface elements posed between ground and concrete slabs may be an alternative method for realizing industrial pavements, thus avoiding the use of a classical and customarily utilized granular interface layer. To evaluate the effectiveness of this construction technique, a full-scale experimental investigation was recently carried out. Its results have been used to calibrate a finite element model to describe the overall slab behaviour as a function of relevant geometrical and soil parameters. The paper outlines some interesting outcomes of the tests carried out so far, and also shows the applicability of the numerical model to describe the problem of soil-structure interaction.
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