Discussion of 'A Parametric Study on Factors Affecting Ground Vibrations during Pile Driving through Finite Element Simulations' by Mo Zhang and Mingjiang Tao

摘要

The authors applied the finite-element method (FEM) to improve calculations of the peak particle velocity of ground vibrations generated by pile driving. This method has been successfully used to resolve various static problems in geotechnical engineering. However, the results are substantially different in the application of FEM to dynamic problems for which only general tendencies can be determined (for example, Broers and Dieterman 1992).