Numerical evaluation of tsunami impact force acted on a bridge girder during tsunami by using a particle method

Shoichi Tanabe, Mitsuteru Asai, Kenjiro Terada, Kazuo Kashiyama, Shuji Moriguchi, Mao Kurumatani

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Abstract

On March 11, 2011, the huge Tsunami caused by the great east Japan earthquake devastated the Pacific coast of north-eastern Japan. Many infrastructures including bridges were collapsed by the Tsunami. New generation of Tsunami disaster prevention and mitigation method should be reconsidered toward the next millennium Tsunami. In this study, a stabilized Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) has been utilized for an evaluation of fluid force acted on bridge girders. In addition, a new boundary treatment using a virtual marker and fixed boundary particle is developed to satisfy the slip and no-slip boundary condition for the velocity field and to satisfy the pressure Neumann condition at the same time. The accuracy and efficiencies of our proposed method are validated by comparison between a numerical solution and experimental results. Finally, a simple treatment for the particle method has been introduced to our developed SPH tool to simulate wash out of the bridge girder.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014
EditorsEugenio Onate, Xavier Oliver, Antonio Huerta
PublisherInternational Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Pages4066-4076
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9788494284472
Publication statusPublished - Jul 1 2014
EventJoint 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, the 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and the 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: Jul 20 2014Jul 25 2014

Publication series

Name11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014

Other

OtherJoint 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, the 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and the 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period7/20/147/25/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Mechanical Engineering

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