Abstract
Centrifuge modeling has become a popular and powerful experimental tool in geotechnical engineering. The centrifugal acceleration, which is used to simulate the gravitational acceleration, varies within a model in both magnitude and direction. As a result, the stress field in a centrifuge model is different from that in the prototype being simulated. This paper presents the results of a numerical simulation of the effect of the variation in radial centrifugal acceleration on the stress distribution in a centrifuge model, and its impact on the accuracy of test results. The influence of the centrifuge radius and the size of a model container is investigated.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 24-43 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Geotechnical Testing Journal |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2002 |
Keywords
- Accuracy
- Centrifuge test
- Model container
- Numerical simulation