Research Article

Numerical Analysis of Damaged River Embankment during the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Using a Multiphase-Coupled FEM Analysis Method

Table 1

Material parameters of Naruse sand.

Soil parametersElastoplastic model [24]Extended elastoplastic model

Initial void ratio1.1591.159
Density1.731.73
Compression index0.05000.0500
Swelling index0.00570.0057
Normalized initial elastic shear modulus340340
Water permeability (m/s)1.13 × 10−41.13 × 10−4
Quasi-overconsolidation ratioOCR1.21.2
Stress ratio at phase transformation0.8910.891
Stress ratio at failure1.2291.229
Hardening parameter50005000
Hardening parameter100100
Hardening parameterCf00
Dilatancy coefficient1.01.0
Dilatancy coefficient6.06.0
Reference value of plastic strain0.0010.001
Reference value of elastic strain0.0030.003
Hardening parameter0.0
Hardening parameter0.0
Hardening parameter40.47
Elastic shear modulus parameter1.0
Elastic shear modulus parameter1.0
Elastic shear modulus parameter1.0
Anisotropy disappearance parameter2000.02000.0
Nonassociativity flow ruleParametric study
Stiffness recovery rate2000

This parameter is not used in the parametric study.