Publications by Sylvain Plumey

Analytical and numerical analyses of the load-bearing capacity of retaining walls laterally supported at both ends

Laurent Vulliet, Sylvain Plumey, Vincent Labiouse, Aurelio Muttoni

This paper investigates the load-bearing capacity of a perfectly smooth retaining wall laterally supported at both ends assuming that the wall fails by the development of three plastic hinges. The study considers the case of a cohesionless elastic–perfectl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Interaction between Bond and Deviation Forces in Spalling Failures of Arch-Shaped Members without Transverse Reinforcement

Sylvain Plumey, Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

This paper investigates the structural behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) arch-shaped members without transverse reinforcement subjected to bending. Such members have typical applications in tunnels, cut-and-cover structures, shells, vaults, ducts, silos ...

ACI Structural Journal2010

Interaction sol-structure dans le domaine des tranchées couvertes

Sylvain Plumey

The present research on cut-and-cover tunnels gives a theoretical contribution to the understanding of the behaviour of these structures up to their ultimate limit state. A simplified method inspired on the convergence-confinement method is investigated an ...

EPFL2007

Considérations sur l'interaction sol-structure dans le domaine des tranchées couvertes

Sylvain Plumey, Aurelio Muttoni

Pour la plupart des structures du génie civil, le comportement du sol et le comportement de la structure peuvent être investigués de manière dissociée, ce qui en facilite grandement l’analyse, tout permettant généralement d’atteindre les buts visés. Dans c ...

fib-CH, Construction en béton en Suisse . The second fib-congress, June 5-8, 2006, Naples, Italy2006

Considerations on the design of cut-and-cover tunnels

Laurent Vulliet, Sylvain Plumey, Vincent Labiouse, Aurelio Muttoni

The communication shows an alternative for introducing soil-structure interaction in the analysis of cut-and-cover tunnels. An uncoupled method is illustrated through two examples representative of the situations found in practice. The main features of eac ...

ELU-ULS 2006 - Symposium international sur les états limites ultimes des ouvrages géotechniques2006

Plasticity in soil-structure interaction applied to cut-and-cover tunnels

Laurent Vulliet, Sylvain Plumey, Vincent Labiouse, Aurelio Muttoni

Cut-and-cover tunnels behavior at ultimate limit state depends strongly on the interactions between the foundation soil, the backfill and the reinforced concrete structure. Characterization of the potential failure modes of these types of structure necessi ...

5th International PhD Symposium in civil engineering2004