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Structural dimension optimization and mechanical response analysis of fabricated honeycomb plastic pavement slab

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Because of favorable mechanical properties, deformation resistance and being conducive to environmental protection, honeycomb fabricated plastic pavement slabs are highly recommended these years. At present, most studies focus on the performance of plastic materials, however, the dimension optimization of fabricated plastic pavement slab is rarely mentioned. In this paper, an optimized geometry of the honeycomb pavement slab was determined through finite element analysis. Mechanical response of honeycomb slabs with different internal dimensions and external dimensions were explored. Several dimension factors were taken into consideration including the side length, rib thickness, the thickness of both top and bottom slabs of honeycomb structure and the length, the width and the thickness of the fabricated plastic slab. The results showed that honeycomb pavement slab with 6 cm bottom slab, 12 cm top slab,18 cm side length and 6 cm rib thickness is recommended, additionally, an external dimension of 4 m × 4 m × 0.45 m is suggested. Then, the mechanical responses of this optimized fabricated plastic slab were further investigated. Significance of different influencing factors, including wheel load, elastic modulus of plastic material, base layer thickness, soil foundation modulus and base layer modulus were ranked.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFE0103800); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51978068); the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (No. 2021JQ-268) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, CHD (No. 300102211305). The authors gratefully acknowledge their financial support.

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    Zixuan Chen, Tao Liu, Xiao Ma, Hanyu Tang & Jianzhong Pei

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Chen, Z., Liu, T., Ma, X. et al. Structural dimension optimization and mechanical response analysis of fabricated honeycomb plastic pavement slab. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng. 16, 896–908 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-022-0856-7

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