Print Email Facebook Twitter Modelling of the dynamic pressuremeter test in porous soil using analytical and numerical methods Title Modelling of the dynamic pressuremeter test in porous soil using analytical and numerical methods Author Kaltsas, D. Contributor Van Dalen, K.N. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Geoscience & Engineering Date 2016-08-22 Abstract The pressuremeter test is one of the most popular in-situ soil testing methods. Developed in the 1950s in France, the test has evolved throughout the past decades and was built into a cone resulting in a cone pressuremeter device (CPM). A proposed extension of the test involves time dependent pressurisation of the device resulting in wave propagation in the soil. Therefore, the dynamic behaviour can be determined. The possible applications of this extension include the response of an offshore monopole to dynamic loading and liquefaction analysis. The present research work deals with the modelling of the dynamic version of the pressuremeter test. The soil where the test was assumed to be conducted was saturated sand. Therefore, it was modelled as a porous medium, following the poroelastic theory by Biot (1956). The latter was based on the consolidation theory (Biot, 1941). Subject COMSOL MultiphysicsGeotechnical engineeringsoil dynamicsporous mediacone pressuremeterBiot poroelasticitynonlinear analysisHyperbolic law To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:54d9a01f-0e49-4919-9625-60c4ccbebf30 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2016 Kaltsas, D. Files PDF MSc thesis report_Dimitri ... altsas.pdf 23.05 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:54d9a01f-0e49-4919-9625-60c4ccbebf30/datastream/OBJ/view