Kant and Samanta
Kant and Samanta
Kant and Samanta
4, 2020
ABSTRACT
In soil–structure interaction (SSI) problem, the structural response is affected by additional wave energy
dissipation through radiation and material damping of soil. The infinite soil around a sizeable stiff structure
behaves like a natural damper. The modeling of such phenomenon of wave transmission that radiates outward
from the vibrating structures towards infinity has significant difficulties. In numerical analysis, the only finite
domain of the soil medium is analyzed and boundary condition (BC) is imposed to prevent the outgoing
radiation waves from reflecting of the boundary region. The accuracy of SSI simulation in numerical analysis
depends on how well the non-reflecting boundary condition is working in the simulation. Many approaches
have been developed to simulate such boundary conditions over the past few decades and the accuracy of wave-
absorbing BC has been improved over the period of time. This paper aims to review and implement the different
wave transmitting boundary conditions that are generally familiar in analyzing problems in the soil–structure
interaction. Accuracy, suitability and application of wave-absorbing BCs are studied in this paper using the
finite element program ABAQUS modeling.
KEYWORDS: Soil-structure interaction, Boundary condition, Finite element (FE), Free field response
of soil, Numerical analysis.