https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714012020
Consideration of reinforcement mechanism in the short fiber mixing granular materials by granular element simulations
Hachinohe Institute of Technology, 88-1 Obiraki, Myo, Hachinohe City, Japan
* e-mail: g139044@hi-tech.ac.jp
** e-mail: kaneko@hi-tech.ac.jp
*** e-mail: hashizume@hi-tech.ac.jp
Published online: 30 June 2017
The short fiber mixing method is well known as one of the method to improve the strength of gran- ular soils in geotechnical engineering. Mechanical properties of the short fiber mixing granular materials are influenced by many factors, such as the mixture ratio of the short fiber, the material of short fiber, the length, and the orientation. In particular, the mixture ratio of the short fibers is very important in mixture design. In the past study, we understood that the strength is reduced by too much short fiber mixing by a series of tri-axial compression experiments. Namely, there is “optimum mixture ratio” in the short fiber mixing granular soils. In this study, to consider the mechanism of occurrence of the optimum mixture ratio, we carried out the numerical experiments by granular element method. As the results, we can understand that the strength decrease when too much grain-fiber contact points exist, because a friction coefficient is smaller than the grain-grain contact points.
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