Culvert is sometimes placed on elastic foundation at construction site. There are several methods to analyze a culvert, particularly finite element method used commonly. The stiffness matrix of finite element method does not include the character of t...
Culvert is sometimes placed on elastic foundation at construction site. There are several methods to analyze a culvert, particularly finite element method used commonly. The stiffness matrix of finite element method does not include the character of the elastic foundation. When the elastic foundation stiffness matrix, which will be introduced in this study, add to the stiffness matrix, the combined matrix can be applicable to the bottom part of the culvert on elastic foundation.
That could analyze the actual condition of the culvert, also predict the elastic displacements of the culvert.