Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Tests on Recycled Concrete Aggregates

Adnan Anwar Malik; Hong Le Owen; Syed Kamran Hussain Shah; Umair Ali

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-8229-1_22

Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Tests on Recycled Concrete Aggregates

Adnan Anwar Malik^*
, Hong Le Owen
, Syed Kamran Hussain Shah
, Umair Ali

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The utilisation of waste is a key approach to moving towards a sustainable environment. A lot of research is going on about different waste materials to make them reusable for various activities in the construction industry. Recycled concrete aggregate is one of the industrial wastes that can be used as a base and sub-base course material in the construction of roads. Previous studies explored various aspects of its performance to minimise the use of natural aggregates. In this study, experimental results of consolidated drained triaxial tests of recycled concrete aggregate are simulated on PLAXIS 2D software considering the Hardening soil model with small strain and NorSand model. The experiments are conducted under 40, 70, and 100 kPa cell pressure. The comparison between experimental and numerical data of recycled concrete aggregate indicated that the NorSand model works better than the hardening soil model in terms of capturing stress–strain with post-peak softening behaviour.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024 - Unsaturated Subgrades, Recycled Materials, and Soft Subgrade Stability
Editors	Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn, Buddhima Indraratna, Jianfeng Xue
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	203-210
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9789819782284
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8229-1_22
State	Published - 2025
Event	5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics, ICTG 2024 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 20 Nov 2024 → 22 Nov 2024

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Volume	406 LNCE
ISSN (Print)	2366-2557
ISSN (Electronic)	2366-2565

Conference

Conference	5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics, ICTG 2024
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	20/11/24 → 22/11/24

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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.

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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

Hardening soil model with small strain
NorSand model
Plaxis 2D
Recycled concrete aggregate

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering

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Malik, A. A., Le Owen, H., Shah, S. K. H., & Ali, U. (2025). Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Tests on Recycled Concrete Aggregates. In C. Rujikiatkamjorn, B. Indraratna, & J. Xue (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024 - Unsaturated Subgrades, Recycled Materials, and Soft Subgrade Stability (pp. 203-210). (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering; Vol. 406 LNCE). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8229-1_22

Malik, Adnan Anwar ; Le Owen, Hong ; Shah, Syed Kamran Hussain et al. / Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Tests on Recycled Concrete Aggregates. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024 - Unsaturated Subgrades, Recycled Materials, and Soft Subgrade Stability. editor / Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn ; Buddhima Indraratna ; Jianfeng Xue. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. pp. 203-210 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering).

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Malik, AA, Le Owen, H, Shah, SKH & Ali, U 2025, Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Tests on Recycled Concrete Aggregates. in C Rujikiatkamjorn, B Indraratna & J Xue (eds), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024 - Unsaturated Subgrades, Recycled Materials, and Soft Subgrade Stability. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol. 406 LNCE, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 203-210, 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics, ICTG 2024, Sydney, Australia, 20/11/24. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8229-1_22

Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Tests on Recycled Concrete Aggregates. / Malik, Adnan Anwar; Le Owen, Hong; Shah, Syed Kamran Hussain et al.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024 - Unsaturated Subgrades, Recycled Materials, and Soft Subgrade Stability. ed. / Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn; Buddhima Indraratna; Jianfeng Xue. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. p. 203-210 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering; Vol. 406 LNCE).

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Malik AA, Le Owen H, Shah SKH, Ali U. Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Tests on Recycled Concrete Aggregates. In Rujikiatkamjorn C, Indraratna B, Xue J, editors, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024 - Unsaturated Subgrades, Recycled Materials, and Soft Subgrade Stability. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2025. p. 203-210. (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering). doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-8229-1_22

Numerical Simulation of Triaxial Tests on Recycled Concrete Aggregates

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