Finite Element Study of Vacuum Preloading and Prefabricated Vertical Drains Behavior for Soft Soil Improvement
Finite element modeling of soft soil improvement with prefabricated vertical drains (PVD) and vacuum preloading behavior was carried out by considering smear effect and equivalent plane strain based on permeability conversion. Transfer of negative pore pressure due to vacuum preloading was modeled by using pore pressure boundary condition at soft soil layer and along the length of the PVD. The soft soil layer was modeled by using Modified Cam Clay constitutive model. Effect of constant and linearly decreasing vacuum pressure along the PVD length was investigated. Furthermore, prediction from…




