Failure analysis of cement-treated soil by FEM implemented with particle discretization

The authors conducted failure analysis of cement-treated soil by using the finite element method (FEM) implemented with particle discretization. The analysis results were compared with laboratory test results. To predict the tensile failure of the cement-treated soil, the material properties of cementtreated soil dependent on confining stress dependent were introduced into the FEM. The results of the numerical simulation were in good agreement with the value that had been obtained by laboratory tests.