MIDAS/ GTS 2D Tutorial 18

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MIDAS/GTS 2D Tutorial 18
Soil Nailing Reinforcement Slope Stability Analysis

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1. Introduction
Weathered Soil

Slope soil Nail reinforcement for weathered rock. Extract and Divide 1D Nail elements. Generating high order mesh for Strength Reduction method.
Weathered Rock Layer

Nail

Soft Rock

Starting Files Required

GTS 2D Tutorial 18.gtb

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2. Material Properties
Mesh Set and Attribute

Attribute Name(ID)
Weathered Rock(1)
Weathered Soil(2)

Type

Material Name(ID) Property Name(ID)

Mesh Set Name

Weathered Rock
Weathered Soil

Weathered Rock(1) Plane Weathered Soil(2)

Soft Rock(3) Nail(4)

Plane Line

Soft Rock(3) Nail(4)

Nail(1)

Soft Rock Nail

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3. Starting GTS
1 Open GTS 2D Tutorials 18.gtb 2

Display Option

Start GTS.exe

Click on File>Open
Open file GTS_2D_Tutorial 18.gtb From Main Menu, select View>Display Option.

Define False for Mesh > Node Display under General Tab. Click OK

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4. Input Material Properties

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Attribute Generation Model > Property > Attribute

After ensuring that all the generated Attributes, Materials, and Properties are listed, click Close.

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5. Geometry modifications
4 Intersect Geometry > Curve > Intersect

From Main Menu, select Geometry > Curve > Intersect.

Click geometry. button or (Ctrl+A) to select the entire

Click [Apply] to perform the intersections.

To register each mesh set independently, it is necessary to separate the geometry accordingly. This can be done by using the intersect function which separates all nodal connections.

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6. Mesh Generation
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Auto Mesh Planar Area

Mesh > Auto Mesh > Planar Area(F7)

From Main Menu, select Mesh>Auto Mesh>Planar Area or click [F7]. Select Object Edges shown in diagram 1. Select Mesher Type as Quadrilateral. 2

Under Mesh Size, enter Element Size as 2.

Select Attribute ID 1: Weathered Rock and enter Mesh Set name Weathered Rock . Select the Generate Mid-Side Nodes option.

Click [Apply] button.

Repeat the same steps for the Weathered Soil for the layer selected in diagram 2. When defining mesh size, use Element size 3

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6. Mesh Generation
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Auto Mesh Planar Area

Mesh > Auto Mesh > Planar Area(F7)

High order mesh is required to perform a stability analysis on the slope using Strength Reduction Method. Generate Mid-Side Nodes generates a higher order Mesh set.

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Extract Element Model > Element > Extract Element

From Main Menu, select Model > Element > Extract Element. From Shape select Edge.

As shown in the diagram, select the 14 edges.

Assign Attribute ID 4: Nail. In Mesh Set, enter Nail. Click [OK] button.

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Divide 1D Element Model > Element > Divide 1D Element

From Main Menu, select Model > Element > Divide 1D Element. As shown in the diagram, select the Nail elements. Enter 2 for Number of Division. Select the Merge Nodes option.

Nail elements were made by extracting 1D element; however, the

mesh sets for nail and ground are not properly connected. The reason is because GTS does not support provides quadratic 1D element. Therefore, the Divide 1D element function must be used to match the connectivity between the nail and ground mesh set.

Click [OK] button.

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Element Coordinate System

From Pre-Works, select Mesh > Mesh Set and right click Mesh Set Nail. As shown in the diagram, the elements Csys should be displayed.

From Main Menu, select Model > Element > Change Parameters.
First, select Align Local Csys. As shown in the diagram select one Base Element. The remaining elements will follow the same Csys with respect to the Base Elements Csys. Click [OK] button.

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Final Mesh Generation

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7. Boundary Conditions
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Supports

Model > Boundary > Supports

Caution should be exercised when

selecting the nodes when defining Boundary conditions for mesh sets of higher order.

In the BC Set box, enter the name of the Support for x-direction. In this case, it is called Ground BC. Click [Apply] button. Repeat the same steps for the ground support in the z and x -direction. Be sure to select the proper DOF
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Self Weight Model > Load > Self Weight

From Main Menu, select Model > Load > Self Weight. In Load Set, enter Self-Weight

Enter Self Weight Factor for Zdirection as -1. Click [OK] button.

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8. Analysis Case
12 Setting up Analysis Case Analysis > Analysis Case

From Main Menu, select Analysis > Analysis Case.

Click [Add] button and to perform Analysis Case.

In Name, enterSoil Nailing reinforcement slope stability analysis. Select Slope Stability SRM as the Analysis Type.
As shown in the diagram, Drag and Drop all of the Elements, Boundary, and Load from Set tree to the Activated column. Click [OK] button.

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9. Analysis
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Analysis

Analysis > Solve

From Main Menu, select Analysis > Solve or click the button.

Select Soil Nail Reinforcement

Click [OK] button to perform the analysis.

During the analysis a window will appear indicating that the solver is processing.
The analysis results are recognized as * .TA. Output files of extension *.OUT found in the working directory can be viewed in a text viewer.

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10. Overview of the Analysis Results

14 Safety Factor 15 Max Shear Strain

By viewing the Works Tree, from Post-Works Plane-Strain Strains > Ho-Plstrn Max Shear, the max shear strain and the failure plane and be viewed. In the Works Tree, from Post-Works, the Factor of Safety can be viewed.

From Ho-Plstrn, Ho represents Higher order.

Lower order is expressed as Lo-Plstrn in the post works tree.

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