巴准重载铁路高路堤边坡稳定性分析

针对巴准重载铁路高路堤,采用三维非线性有限元方法,建立了可考虑重载列车振动荷载作用的高路堤边坡稳定性分析的数值模型。通过引入强度折减系数法,分析了未加固和应用土工格栅加固的高路堤边坡的稳定性,据此考察了格栅长度与间距、边坡高度及路基上部荷载等因素对高路堤边坡稳定性的影响效应。数值模型中,路基土体采用莫尔—库伦弹塑性本构模拟,土工格栅选用线弹性本构模拟;通过计算ZK标准活载及等效土柱高度,换算得到路基上部荷载。研究表明：加固重载铁路高路堤时,土工格栅的应用限制了高路堤边坡的侧向滑动,有效地提高了高路堤边坡的稳定性;格栅增长、路堤高度降低能够提高高路堤边坡的稳定性,而格栅间距增大、路基上部荷载增加将降低高路堤边坡的稳定性。     

土工格栅在复合地基中对桩与土的作用机制数值分析研究

土工格栅加筋垫层复合地基近年来在处理软土路基中得到了广泛应用,但土工格栅在复合地基中对桩与土的作用机制,尚无系统研究。基于弹塑性摩尔库仑模型,采用PLAXIS有限元软件,详细分析了无土工格栅和有土工格栅在不同抗拉强度下对路基沉降、侧向位移,桩的轴力和剪力以及基础的应力扩散等影响,得到土工格栅能有效减少路基沉降及侧向位移等结论,对于路基工程中土工格栅强度的选取及其它应用具有一定的指导作用。     

土工织物散体桩加固粉土路基机理研究

泗许高速公路地处淮北平原,该地区以粉土或粉细砂为主,在地震荷载作用下易于液化,公路建设应考虑抗液化措施。本文对土工织物散体桩的抗液化性能、复合地基承载力等进行研究,提出采用土工织物散体桩复合地基加固粉土路基的方法并对其加固机理进行分析。通过有限差分数值计算和现场试验两种方法,从超孔隙水压消散、承载力、桩土应力比、桩身应力等角度分析了土工织物散体桩加固粉土路基的加固机理,并提出土工织物散体桩优化设计的建议。     

闸门-地基非线性动力相互作用分析

采用大型有限元软件对地基、闸门进行整体建模,讨论了在动力相互作用的分析中,简单截断人工边界的合理取值范围以及土体非线性的塑性性质对分析结果的影响;比较了在深层搅拌桩加固的复合地基中,按桩、土分别独立建模与按常规的平均法进行分析的差异。分析结果表明,不同的分析模型,人工边界的合理取值范围是不一样的;土体的滤波作用及其塑性的非线性性质对分析结果有重大的影响;对深层搅拌桩加固的复合地基,应该按实际把桩、土分别独立建模进行分析。分析结果对工程实际有一定的指导意义。     

地震中整体面板式土工格栅加筋土挡墙动土压力研究

土工格栅加筋挡土墙是一种柔性挡土结构,目前尚未建立较严密的设计方法,作用在土工格栅加筋墙壁上的地震动土压力研究是抗震设计的重要内容之一。应用基于拉格朗日法的完全非线性动有限差分法研究整体面板式土工格栅加筋土挡壁在地震作用下各设计参数对挡壁动土压力的影响。采用弹塑性模型模拟填土,采用耦合弹性参数描述格栅与土接触界面特性,参数包括加筋间距、长度、刚度、地震强度和填土性质等,分析墙壁的动土压力沿墙身的分布特征,得出了影响地震动土压力的显著参数,证明了土工格栅加筋墙体的优异吸震能力,研究结果为整体面板式土工格栅加筋土挡墙抗震设计中的动土压力研究提供参考。     

非对称交通荷载作用下拓宽路堤动力特性分析

针对山西省境内长期承受非对称交通荷载的公路拓宽路堤,采用FLAC~(3D)建立数值模型,土工格栅采用FLAC~(3D)内置土工格栅单元(geogrid)模拟,其余部分均采用实体单元,屈服准则采用Mohr-Coulomb准则。将交通荷载简化为半正弦波荷载,分析非对称交通荷载作用下不加筋和加筋两种工况下拓宽路堤的变形特性及稳定性,进而改变拓宽路堤部分填土参数、交通荷载幅值、频率和行车间隔等参数,分析其对加筋工况下拓宽路堤变形的影响。结果表明:非对称交通荷载作用下,设置土工格栅加筋对新、旧路堤变形的约束作用有限,但能提高路堤的整体稳定性;增大拓宽路堤填土的压缩模量和黏聚力,可减小新、旧路堤沉降差;增大交通荷载一侧幅值会引起新、旧路堤过大差异沉降;增大交通荷载频率和时间间隔,路堤沉降均逐渐减小,但沉降差保持不变。上述结论对受非对称交通荷载拓宽路堤的施工提供了一定的理论依据。     

既有建筑湿陷性黄土地基加固设计研究

湿陷性黄土属于一种特殊土质,对地表水或地下水的变化较为敏感,严重影响了建筑物地基的稳定性。依托某既有建筑湿陷性黄土地基加固工程,结合既有建筑特点,分别从地质条件(内因)、上部荷载(外因)及水因素(诱发因素)3个方面入手,提出采用人工挖孔桩+注浆法、扩大基础及做水泥土搅拌桩止水帷幕等加固措施,来解决该既有建筑湿陷性黄土地基不均匀沉降的问题。该工程为今后类似工程提供了参考。     

土工格栅加筋土挡墙在复杂工程地质条件下的应用

随着我国经济建设的发展,越来越多的基础设施修建在工程地质条件复杂的山区内,所形成的高填方工程往往不具备放坡的条件,因此如何解决高填方工程的稳定性已成为一项刻不容缓的课题。土工格栅加筋挡土墙因格栅材料具有特有的网孔结构,对土颗粒能产生极强的嵌固与咬合作用,在高填方工程中得到了越来越广泛的应用。本文基于有限元强度折减法建立了土工格栅加筋土挡墙的计算理论,并通过模型试验进行了验证。通过在某机场工程中的应用说明了土工格栅加筋土挡墙的适用性,以及基于有限元强度折减法进行加筋土挡墙设计计算的可靠性。     

列车荷载下巴准重载铁路高路堤路基累积变形研究

针对巴准重载铁路高路堤典型断面,采用三维非线性有限元与经验公式相结合的方法,建立了可考虑列车-轨道动力相互作用的重载列车振动荷载引起的高路堤路基累积变形计算方法。首先,基于列车-轨道垂向耦合动力系统理论,建立重载列车-轨道动力耦合体系数值模型,并实施重载列车-轨道耦合系统动力分析;其次,建立轨枕-道床-路基-场地动力系统的三维有限元模型,并输入求解的列车振动荷载作为外部激励;最后,采用Li和Selig推荐的改进土体累积变形预测模型并结合有限元分析结果,分析了未加固和应用土工格栅加固的高路堤路基累积变形的基本特征与规律。发现土工格栅可显著减小路基的动力累积变形作用。     

碎石桩加固液化粉土地基的数值模拟分析

碎石桩是目前工程中用于处理饱和粉土液化地基最有效、最经济、最普遍的方式之一,但是饱和粉土地基上碎石桩的抗震液化特性还有待于进一步研究。本文利用三维有限差分程序FLAC3D结合安徽某高速公路路基工程对碎石桩加固后的粉土地基的抗震液化特性进行数值分析。通过研究不同埋深距离碎石桩中心不同距离处的孔压增长、消散规律,得到高烈度地震荷载作用下碎石桩加固饱和粉土地基的合理桩间距及加固深度,为类似工程提供了借鉴。     

Impact of heat advection on the thermal regime of roads built on permafrost

In northern regions, transportation infrastructure can experience severe structural damages due to permafrost degradation. Water infiltration and subsurface water flow under an embankment affect the energy balance of roadways and underlying permafrost. However, the quantification of the processes controlling these changes and a detailed investigation of their thermal impacts remain largely unknown due to a lack of available long-term embankment temperature data in permafrost regions. Here, we report observations of heat advection linked to surface water infiltration and subsurface flow based on a 9-year (from 2009 to 2017) thermal monitoring at an experimental road test site built on ice-rich permafrost conditions in southwestern Yukon, Canada. Our results show that snowmelt water infiltration in the spring rapidly increases temperature in the upper portion of the embankment. The earlier disappearance of snow deposited at the embankment slope increases the thawing period and the temperature gradient in the embankment compared with the natural ground. Infiltrated summer rainfall water lowered the near-surface temperatures and subsequently warmed embankment fill materials down to 3.6-m depth. Heat advection caused by the flow of subsurface water produced warming rates at depth in the embankment subgrade up to two orders of magnitude faster than by atmospheric warming (heat conduction). Subsurface water flow promoted permafrost thawing under the road embankment and led to an increase in active layer thickness. We conclude that the thermal stability of roadways along the Alaska Highway corridor is not maintainable in situations where water is flowing under the infrastructure unless mitigation techniques are used. Severe structural damages to the highway embankment are expected to occur in the next decade.     

Modelling extraordinary floods and sedimentological processes in a large channel-floodplain system of the Lower Paran River(Argentina)

A quasi-2D unsteady flow and sediment transport model suitable for the simulation of large lowland river systems,including their floodplains,is presented.The water flow and sediment equations are discretised using an interconnected irregular cells scheme,in which different simplifications of the 1D de Saint Venant equations are used to define the discharge laws between cells.Spatially-distributed transport and deposition of fine sediments throughout the river-floodplain system are simulated.The model is applied over a 208-km reach of the Parana River between the cities of Diamante and Ramallo(Argentina) comprising a river-floodplain area of 8100 km~2.After calibration and validation,the model is applied to predict water and sediment dynamics during synthetically generated extraordinary floods of100,1000,and 10,000 years return period.The potential impact of a 56-km long road embankment constructed across the entire floodplain is simulated and compared to model results without the embankment.The embankment results in increases in upstream water levels,inundation extent,flow duration,and sediment deposition.     

Mechanical formulations for bilinear and trilinear hysteretic models used in base isolators

The best known model for numerically simulating the hysteretic behavior of various structural components is the bilinear hysteretic system. There are two possible mechanical formulations that correspond to the same bilinear model from a mathematical viewpoint. The first one consists of a linear elastic spring connected in series with a parallel system comprising a plastic slider and a linear elastic spring, while the second one comprises a linear elastic spring connected in parallel with an elastic-perfectly plastic system. However, the bilinear hysteretic model is unable to describe either softening or hardening effects in these components. In order to account for this, the bilinear model is extended to a trilinear one. Thus, two trilinear hysteretic models are developed and numerically tested, and the analysis shows that both exhibit three plastic phases. More specifically, the first system exhibits one elastic phase, while the second one exhibits two elastic phases according to the level of strain amplitude. Next, the change of slope between the plastic phases in unloading does not occur at the same displacement level in the two models. Furthermore, the dissipated energy per cycle in the first trilinear model, as proven mathematically and explained physically, decreases in the case of hardening and increases in the case of softening, while in the second trilinear model the dissipated energy per cycle remains unchanged, as is the case with the bilinear model. Numerical examples are presented to quantify the aforementioned observations made in reference to the mechanical behavior of the two trilinear hysteretic models. Finally, a set of cyclic shear tests over a wide range of strain amplitudes on a high damping rubber bearing is used in the parameter identification of the two different systems, namely (a) trilinear hysteretic models of the first type connected in parallel, and (b) trilinear hysteretic models of the second type also connected in parallel. The results show that the complex nonlinear shear behavior of high damping rubber bearings can be correctly simulated by a parallel system which consists of only one component, namely the trilinear hysteretic system of the first type. The second parallel system was not able to describe the enlargement of the dissipated hysteresis area for large strain amplitudes.     

Measurement of LNAPL Flux Using Single‐Well Intermittent Mixing Tracer Dilution Tests

The stability of subsurface Light Nonaqueous Phase Liquids (LNAPLs) is a key factor driving expectations for remedial measures at LNAPL sites. The conventional approach to resolving LNAPL stability has been to apply Darcy's Equation. This paper explores an alternative approach wherein single‐well tracer dilution tests with intermittent mixing are used to resolve LNAPL stability. As a first step, an implicit solution for single‐well intermittent mixing tracer dilution tests is derived. This includes key assumptions and limits on the allowable time between intermittent mixing events. Second, single‐well tracer dilution tests with intermittent mixing are conducted under conditions of known LNAPL flux. This includes a laboratory sand tank study and two field tests at active LNAPL recovery wells. Results from the sand tank studies indicate that LNAPL fluxes in wells can be transformed into formation fluxes using corrections for (1) LNAPL thicknesses in the well and formation and (2) convergence of flow to the well. Using the apparent convergence factor from the sand tank experiment, the average error between the known and measured LNAPL fluxes is 4%. Results from the field studies show nearly identical known and measured LNAPL fluxes at one well. At the second well the measured fluxes appear to exceed the known value by a factor of two. Agreement between the known and measured LNAPL fluxes, within a factor of two, indicates that single‐well tracer dilution tests with intermittent mixing can be a viable means of resolving LNAPL stability.     

Simulated effect of a forest road on near‐surface hydrologic response and slope stability

Forest management practices often result in significant changes to hydrologic and geomorphic responses at or near the earth's surface. A well‐known, but not fully tested, hypothesis in hillslope hydrology[sol ]geomorphology is that a near‐surface permeability contrast, caused by the surface compaction associated with forest roads, can result in diverted subsurface flow paths that produce increased up‐slope pore pressures and slope failure. The forest road focused on in this study is located in a steep forested, zero‐order catchment within the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Oregon). A three‐phase modelling effort was employed to test the aforementioned hypothesis: (i) two‐dimensional (vertical slice), steady‐state, heterogeneous, saturated subsurface flow simulations at the watershed scale for establishing the boundary conditions for the catchment‐scale boundary‐value problem in (ii); (ii) two‐dimensional (vertical slice), transient, heterogeneous, variably saturated subsurface flow simulations at the catchment scale for estimating near‐surface hydrologic response and pore pressure distributions; and (iii) slope stability analyses, using the infinite slope approach, driven by the pore pressure distributions simulated in (ii), for assessing the impact of the forest road. Both observed and hypothetical rainfall events are used to drive the catchment‐scale simulations. The results reported here support the hypothesis that a forest road can have an effect on slope stability. The permeability contrast associated with the forest road in this study led to a simulated altering of slope‐parallel subsurface flow with increased pore pressures up‐slope of the road and, for a large rainfall event, a slope failure prediction. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Numerical Study on Behavior of Groundwater Flow in Single Rough Fractures Under Mechanical Effect

This paper numerically investigates the characteristics of groundwater flow in spatially correlated variable aperture fractures under the mechanical effect. Spatially correlated aperture distributions are generated using the geostatistical method (i.e., turning bands algorithm in this study). To represent a nonlinear relationship between the effective normal stress and the fracture aperture, a simple mechanical formula is combined with a local flow model. Numerical results indicate that the groundwater flow is significantly affected by the geometry of aperture distribution, varying with the applied effective normal stress as well as the spatial correlation length of aperture distribution. Moreover, using the flow results simulated in this study, two empirical formulae are proposed: (1) the first one (modified Louis formula) is to represent the relationship between the effective normal stress and the effective permeability of fracture and (2) the second one is to represent the relationship between relative roughness and effective permeability.     

Ground-temperature controlling effects of duct-ventilated railway embankment in permafrost regions

Based on observed data from field-testing embankment of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, ground-temperature controlling effect of duct-ventilated embankment is studied in this paper.The results show that ventilation ducts can effectively cool the soils surrounding the ducts of the embankment, and the heat budget of the ambient soils in a year shows as heat release. Temperature status of the permafrost below the embankment with ducts buried in the relatively high position is similar to that of the common embankment. The permafrost processes warming all along in the two freezing-thawing cycles when the embankment was constructed. However, the temperature of the frozen soils below the embankment, in which the ducts buried in the relatively low position, rises a little in the initial stage. After that, it cools down gradually. At the same time,ventilation ducts can effectively reduce the thermal disturbance caused by the filled soils. The frozen soils below the common embankment and that with high-posited ducts absorb heat all along in the initial two cycles. While the soils below the embankment with low-posited ducts begin to release heat in the second cycle. This phenomenon proves that the ventilation embankment with low-posited ducts shows efficient temperature-controlling effect. Such embankment can actively cool the subgrade soils and therefore keeps the roadbed thermally stable.     

Numerical prediction of low-frequency ground vibrations induced by high-speed trains at Ledsgaard, Sweden

The ground vibrations induced by a passenger train at the test site of Ledsgaard, Sweden, have been analysed and numerically simulated through a spectral element discretization of the soil. To calculate the spatial distribution of loading due to train passage, the train is decoupled from the track, and a suitable series of static forces is applied. The track and the embankment are modeled as a beam on elastic foundation, using analytical solutions for loads moving at constant velocity. The results of both 2D and 3D modelling assumptions are thoroughly discussed, in terms of prediction of track motion and of attenuation of peak ground velocity with distance.