Stresses in pre-stressed dry sandy soil due to normal moving load leading to instability and fracture (Q1115686)

The paper gives a complete study of stresses and displacements induced in a pre-stressed half-space made of dry sandy soil due to concentrated line load moving at a constant speed along the surface. The subsonic, transonic and supersonic cases have been considered. It is seen that sandy parameters and the pre-stress parameters play important roles in the development of the stresses and displacements in the medium. The stress developed at a certain depth have been calculated numericall for the subsonic case due to increasing velocity of the moving load for different values of pre-stress parameters. The velocities of the moving load creating instability in the medium leading to fracture have been calculated for different values of pre-stressing in sandy soil and elastic half-space both and it is observed that sandy soil is less stable to moving loads than the elastic one. Further it is inferred that the prestressed medium gets fractured at a less velocity of the moving load in comparison to the pre-stress free case.