I think the project requirement states that whatever capacity you get from side shear, you have to deduct the wt of the driller pier to calculated the actual capacity.
Actual capacity of pier = TOtal capacity using side shear - Wt of driller pier
Well the reason for not getting any answers in your case because of the fact you didnt applied any boundary conditions
and when you write macros in terms of the variables in place of numbers it will be of great ease for you to revise the analysis with diff sizes meshes
what is the difference in results,
when two nodes are coupled with all the degree of freedom and when the rigid link is provided in between the two nodes.
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the finite elements requires you to put several input like you want the non linear range ? for that you have to declare your material properties in a non linear graph. but keep it in mind never show that your curve has negative slopes then you cannot able to model anything.
so everytime you...
any other thing that i would recommend is the use of geosynthetics product so , y0u can use the geotextiles to reduce the water ingress and that will automatically takes care of the swelliing phenomena of the soils.
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I would personally go for the bracing to that portions so that in future 'cos of creep and sustained loads and some undeterministic loads could make the situation more worse than what it is right now.
So i would go for the steel bracing in that portion. providing extra support to the column...
I recommend personally to check for the global stability failure, thats one of the important checks and it may cause you trouble if you submit your design without the global stability failure as there may be slightest chance of failure then also. And you have to show that how much is the factor...
when you compact the backfill soil then the density and internal friction angle is going to be chnaged and you have to see to its new density to check the dry soil density and bulk density of the soilf for calculating the earth pressure.
you can perform any test to check out the density of the...
its an amibiguous position like u can do how many test u like but if u think that u have a reasonable test data from the labs with not much of the discrepancies then u have enough . And u can do one deep test to see ascertain the ground water level .
More u go more u put money if u wont get...
P method takes the equation to the igher polynomial and h-method tries to refine the mesh and makes it smaller.
both of the things have its own advantages and disadvantages. keeping the mesh size smaller , can increase your time for calculation and ultimately cost u money .
so always tries to...
