Study on Vertical Earth Pressure of Slab Culvert under High Embankment

Abstract:

With the increasing of embankment culvert engineering applications, there has been due in part to the structural design is too conservative and not economic or select unreasonable structural form, leading to the phenomenon of cracking or even collapse of the culvert structure, and the phenomenon has seriously affected the normal use of the highway. In this paper, the numerical simulation of vertical earth pressure distribution on different structural forms of embankment on culverts, to discuss the impact of boundary conditions, fill height, the thickness of the culvert culverts vertical earth pressure. Combined with Heda highway a culvert covert field test results and numerical simulation results were compared and analyzed. The results show that the numerical simulation and field test results in good agreement with the culvert structure in the form of vertical earth pressure of the embankment culverts have a greater impact; the structure of different forms of the culvert in the upper soil pressure is significantly different. In addition, analysis of the impact of boundary conditions, filling height of culvert vertical earth pressure values. The results can reference for the study of the structural design of the embankment culverts security.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 256-259)
• Pages: 1898-1902
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.256-259.1898
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Bao Kuan Ning, He Fan, Lei Gong, Guo Qing Liu
• Keywords: Embankment Culvert, Numerical Simulation, Slab Culvert, Structure, Vertical Earth Pressure

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