Abstract
In 2011, the huge tsunami caused by the great east Japan earthquake devastated many infrastructures in pacific coast of north eastern Japan. Particularly, collapse of bridges caused a traffic disorder and these collapse behaviors led to delay of recovery after the disaster. In this study, the bridge wash away accident is selected as a target issue, and it is represented in order to investigate the criteria and its mechanism by a numerical simulation. For this purpose, Incompressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (ISPH) Method, which is one of the pure mesh free methods, is utilized for the rigid body motion simulation. In this study, rigid body motion is introduced for the fluid-rigid interaction behavior during bridge wash away simulation. In the numerical analysis, the upper bridge structure is washed out by receiving an impact fluid force. The validation tests in two scales showed good agreement with experimental test and the real accident on the great east Japan earthquake tsunami.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods - Fundamentals and Applications, PARTICLES 2015 |
Publisher | International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering |
Pages | 403-409 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9788494424472 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
Event | 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods, PARTICLES 2015 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: Sep 28 2015 → Sep 30 2015 |
Other
Other | 4th International Conference on Particle-Based Methods, PARTICLES 2015 |
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Country | Spain |
City | Barcelona |
Period | 9/28/15 → 9/30/15 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics