42960 2017 eng 490 501 conferenceobject CIMNE Barcelona,Spain International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE) 1 -- -- -- The purpose of the work presented in this paper is to analyze locally (at the element level) the contact behavior of a soil-pile contact problem. Therefore, a 2D shear test is modeled using the Finite Element Method. The formulation of a 4 nodded zero-thickness interface element of Beer is chosen with a linear interpolation function. Four constitutive contact models adapted for contact problems have been implemented. The Mohr-Coulomb and Clough and Duncan models were chosen initially, due to the ease of implementation and few number of parameters needed. After, more complicated models in the framework of elasto-plasticity such as: Lashkari and Mortara were implemented for the first time into the finite element code of the shear test problem. They include other phenomena such as: relative density of soil, the stress level and sand dilatancy. From the results the relation between shear displacement and shear stress has been deduced. Finally, a discussion of the advantages and the drawbacks during computation of each model is given at the end. XIV International Conference on Computational Plasticity, Fundamentals and Applications (COMPLAS 2017) 978-84-946909-6-9 Conference Barcelona, Spain 05.09.2017 07.09.2017 02.01.2018 Borana Kullolli H. Stutz Jeffrey Bronsert Paola Dutto Matthias Baeßler eng uncontrolled Soil-pile interaction eng uncontrolled Numerical modelling Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten Ingenieurbau Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") Graue Literatur