m-PISE

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Volume Title
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
Date
2018-10
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Language
en
Pages
206-215
Series
COMPUTERS AND GEOTECHNICS, Volume 102
Abstract
This article introduces a new procedure to model two cases related to the simulation of the movements of the Tower of Pisa: installation of micropiles and soil extraction. Standard FEM requires geometry definition in the initial configuration. In this case the initial configuration is much different from the final one. m-PISE procedure overcomes this limit. Previous models based these two simulations on a back-analysis procedure. In m-PISE the volume changes are the same as the extracted or injected in-situ, providing a forecasting of the movements. The results obtained through this new procedure show very good agreement with the measured data.
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FEM, Leaning Tower of Pisa, m-PISE, Micropile, Pile installation, Soil extraction
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Squeglia , N , Stacul , S , Abed , A A , Benz , T & Leoni , M 2018 , ' m-PISE : A novel numerical procedure for pile installation and soil extraction. Application to the case of Leaning Tower of Pisa ' , Computers and Geotechnics , vol. 102 , pp. 206-215 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2018.06.005