Analytic solutions for soil‐structure interaction in layered media

Abstract

AbstractThe total system studied in this paper is a layered soil stratum with a rigid bedrock and a cylindrical cavity on the surface. Analytic solutions for the layered medium with prescribed harmonic displacement time history on the surface of the cylindrical cavity are presented. The whole soil domain is divided into interior and exterior domains. The interior domain is the projection of the cylindrical cavity down to the rigid bedrock, whereas the exterior domain is then the soil medium complement to the interior domain. The displacement and stress fields in both domains are expanded as an infinite series of Fourier components with respect to the azimuth. For each Fourier component in the infinite series, the solutions for both domains are found independently by solving the general differential equations of wave propagation satisfying the boundary conditions of the top surface and the lower rigid boundary. Displacement and stress continuity conditions are then imposed on the vertical interface between the two domains using the formulation of a weighted residual. For the soil‐structure interaction problem, the impedance matrix at the interface between the structure and the soil medium can be easily generated using the analytic solutions, which can then be combined with the finite element model of the structure. A simple example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the procedure presented.