Elastic Thin Plate Resting on Saturated Multilayered Soils with Anisotropic Permeability and Elastic Superstrata

Abstract

The fundamental solution for saturated multilayered soils with anisotropic permeability and elastic superstrata is deduced by gathering the analytical layer elements of single-phase soil layers and saturated soil layers. According to the displacement coordination along the plate-soil contact surface, the fundamental solution is substituted into the boundary element method (BEM) formula of the elastic thin plate. Some theoretical and experimental results are presented to certify the correctness of the method in this study, and the influences of the elastic superstratum, time factor, plate-soil relative stiffness, and stratification characteristic on the time behavior of elastic thin plates are explored.