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Geomechanics and Engineering Volume 33, Number 4, May25 2023 , pages 353-367 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/gae.2023.33.4.353 |
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Numerical investigation of the effect of impact on the rockfall protective embankment reinforced with geogrid |
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Mohammad Reza Abroshan and Majid Noorian-Bidgoli
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| Abstract | ||
| The construction of a protective embankment is a suitable strategy to stop and control high-energy rock blocks' impacts during the rockfall phenomenon. In this paper, based on the discrete element numerical method, by modeling an existing embankment reinforced with geogrid, its stability status under the impact of a rock block with two types of low and high kinetic energy, namely 2402 and 4180 kJ, respectively, has been investigated. The modeling results show that the use of geogrid has caused the displacement in the front and back of the embankment to decrease by more than 30%. In this case, the reinforced embankment has stopped the rock block earlier. The displacements obtained from the DEM modeling are compared with the displacements measured from an actual practical experiment to evaluate the results' validity. Comparison between the results shows that the displacement values are close together, while the maximum percentage error in previous studies by an analytical method and the finite element method was 76.4% and 36.6%, respectively. Therefore, the obtained results indicate the discrete numerical method's high ability compared to other numerical and analytical methods to simulate and design the geogrid-reinforced soil embankment under natural disasters such as rockfall with a minor error. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| discrete element method (DEM); geogrid; numerical modeling; protective embankment; rockfall; YADE | ||
| Address | ||
| Mohammad Reza Abroshan and Majid Noorian-Bidgoli: Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran | ||