Study on Initial Cracking of Expansive Soil and FEM Simulation

Abstract:

Swelling and shrinkage due to moisture-change is one of the expansive soils characteristics, which is similar to the behavior of most materials under thermal effect. The stress is defined as moisture-change stress and is adopted to analyze swell-shrinkage deformation based on the elasticity mechanics theory. A FEM program is established which is used to calculate the stress caused by moisture-change considering the defect of theoretical calculation. The stress via FEM program can be accordance with the actual characteristics and the moisture-change is more applied extensively.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 353-356)
• Pages: 74-78
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.353-356.74
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Jun Hua Wu*, Song Yang
• Keywords: Crack, Expansive Soil, Finite Element Method (FEM), Moisture-Change

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