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Click to edit Master title styleGround Engineering in LUSAS
LUSAS Marketing department
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Why use LUSAS for Geotechnics?
“LUSAS is a general finite element modelling system.
Its soils-specific tools allow explicit modelling
of both ground and structure in 2D or 3D in one place”
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Application AreasEngineering Issues:• Bearing Capacity• Overturning• Stability• Consolidation• Seepage• Vibration
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Modelling Tools Overview
CAD Import / Export• Points and lines through DXF• Points, lines, surfaces and volumes through IGES/STEP• Triangulated surfaces from
ground models through STL
CAD-Style Drawing Tools• Snap Grids• Arcs and Splines• Copy, Mirror, Rotate, Scale, Transform• Extrude, Intersect and Manifold• Subtract, Union
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Example Modelling in 2D
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Example Modelling in 3D
Surface sweeping for multiple volume creation,
planar or curved
Subtraction command for creation of voids Master Object
Tool Object
Intersection command for slicing of volumes, planar
or curved.
Intersection and subtraction commands for cylindrical surface with internal void through volume
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Soil and Structure Material Models
Constitutive Soils models• Tresca• Von Mises• Druker Prager• Mohr Coulomb• Modified Cam Clay
Structural Models• Concrete Cracking and Crushing
All models can incorporate strain hardening and softening
Mohr-Coulomb Soil retained by RC wall
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Meshing Tools
General Facilities:• Linear and Quadratic formulations• Refinement
2D Meshing:• Quads and Triangles
3D Meshing:• Tetrahedral • Penta/Hexahedral
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Interface Modelling
Linear Springs• Modulus of sub-grade reaction
Non-Linear Springs• Active/Passive Soil Joints
Interface meshes • Joining soil / structure
Contact• Gain / Loss of contact• Skin Friction
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Construction Sequence
Activation and Deactivation for:• Excavation sequences• Insertion / Deletion of Temporary Members
• Propping and Jacking
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Consolidation and Seepage
Consolidation• Pore-Water pressure equalisation with time• 2D and 3DSeepage• Dams• Dewatering
Dewatering operation in soil mass
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Soil-Structure Vibration
Facilities:• Modal and Time History Dynamics• Material Damping• Non-Linear behaviour • Soil plasticity• Boundary behaviour• Spring/Damping
Vertical Displacement Response in BuildingPile
DrivingImpact
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Application Examples
Animation Examples including:• Excavation• Slope Stability• Tunnelling• Dams• Backfilled Bridges• Dewatering• Consolidation• Vibration
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Excavations
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Pile Group Analysis
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Stability of Embankments
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Tunnelling in Rock and Soil
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Soil, Rock and Structure Modelling
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Soil Arch Construction Sequence
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Seismicity in Soils
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Secant Pile Boring Sequence
Sequential boring and pouring of piles
Investigation of curing/hardening of concrete
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Rail-Induced Soil Vibrations
Excitation of tunnel due to rail load
transit
Secondary response of building to emitted vibrations