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Development and validation of a hypoplastic model for soft clays incorporating rate effects and strength anisotropy
Jerman, Jan ; Mašín, David (advisor) ; Blahůt, Jan (referee) ; Hrubešová, Eva (referee)
The thesis presents modelling framework for soft clays. Soft clays typically occur in marine environment, coastal areas and along rivers, soft clay deposits are also associated with the periglacial conditions. Soft clay seabeds are also prevalent in locations used as foundations of various energy sources (renewable and hydrocarbon). Growing world population increased demand for land, and this, consequently, leads to seaward land reclamation for urban development in coastal areas. Thus, construction on soft soil deposits has become increasingly important as soft clays occur in locations of construction projects for city infrastructure. The stress-strain behaviour of soils, especially clayey soils, is well-known to be rate- dependent. This fact is relevant for specific engineering projects, where the long-term performance of constructions is of interest. This is particularly important for soft clays as the very high degree of compressibility in primary compression and during creep makes rate-dependent soil behaviour an important factor for geotechnical problems. Moreover, the slow slope movements of slow-moving landslides and creeping slopes are controlled mostly by shear creep properties of the shear-zone soil and the effective stress state. Thus, for the case of creeping landslide modelling, a...
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