This paper presents analytical approaches on the shear resistance force of the fill materials in the cellular structure. The cellular structure is rather difficult to be applied by the finite element methods due to the fact that it is one of the typic...
This paper presents analytical approaches on the shear resistance force of the fill materials in the cellular structure. The cellular structure is rather difficult to be applied by the finite element methods due to the fact that it is one of the typical models of discontinuous structure. In order to solve the issue, the shear resistance analysis is performed by introducing the displacement incremental analysis into the distinct element method which would enable to modelize not only continuous, but also discontinuous structures for the static and dynamic area. This method has led to a conclusion in which the computational results are in good agreements with the experimental ones, and moreover, it was confirmed that the effect factors of the shear resistance force were found by analysis. Finally, the paper also provides a suggestion on the experimental equation for the shear resistance force-displacement relation for a purpose of practical design at ease while proposing the equation of the shear resistance moment in the cellular structure using the effect factors.$$a$$a