海底防沉板—桩复合基础承载特性数值分析

为了研究桩长对海底防沉板—桩复合基础在水平、弯矩和扭转荷载作用下承载特性的影响,以我国南海水深200 m的某工程实例为研究对象,利用Flac3D有限差分仿真软件建立了计算模型。研究了桩长为4 m、6 m和8 m的防沉板—桩复合基础在水平、弯矩和扭转荷载作用下的极限承载力和荷载传递机理。结果表明,桩长超过6 m时复合基础的水平承载力显著增长,在水平加载过程中,防沉板总是先达到极限状态而破坏,桩基础的贡献在加载后期体现,且桩长为4 m、8 m时,桩基础与防沉板的连接处弯矩最大;随着桩长的增加,复合基础的抗弯承载力大幅提高,桩基础对复合基础的抗弯承载力贡献增大,当桩长超过8 m,桩长的增加对提高复合基础的抗弯承载力意义不大;在弯矩加载过程中,桩长对于防沉板、桩基础的荷载分配有显著影响,桩长为4 m时,外荷载主要由防沉板承担,当桩长超过4 m时,外荷载主要由桩基础承担;当扭转荷载不超过2 100 k N·m时,防沉板承担主要荷载,直至防沉板达到极限状态而发生旋转,随后桩基础的承载力逐渐发挥;对于桩长为6 m、8 m的复合基础,其极限状态根据防沉板适用性准则确定。     

水下生产系统防沉板结构形式改进研究

防沉板是水下生产系统的重要基础形式,在海洋工程开发中有着广泛应用。基础承载能力不仅决定防沉板的适用范围,还关乎水下生产系统的稳定性与安全性。运用有限元软件ABAQUS,建立防沉板与土体的相互作用模型,通过平衡初始地应力,设置主从接触,施加重力荷载与位移约束,用Swipe法对不同结构形式防沉板进行数值模拟。比较分析多种防沉板在复合加载模式下的极限复合承载能力差异,讨论了单轴竖向承载力、V-H、H-M荷载空间破坏包络线。计算结果显示,防沉板是否有底部结构、底部结构的形式、布置以及深度对荷载位移曲线以及破坏包络线有着显著的影响。提出了通过改进防沉板结构形式以克服承载力不足的问题的建议,为拓宽防沉板的运用领域提供了参考。     

砂土中带裙板防沉板基础竖向承载力的上限解

防沉板是深海油气工程中水下生产系统的重要基础形式,因其埋深浅、水下施工方便等特点而具有广阔的应用前景。为了满足基础抗滑移的要求,可在防沉板底部设置裙板,裙板的存在增加了防沉板竖向承载力计算的难度。将防沉板基础简化为带裙板条形基础,考虑了内部土体与基础的相互作用,建立了竖向承载模式,即Terzaghi模式;运用极限分析法推导了该承载模式的上限解,引入了一个能够反映裙板与基础内部土体共同作用的经验参数—土体破坏率(η),其大小决定了地基中土体滑动面的范围;通过分析确定了在二维简化条件下带裙板防沉板基础的土体破坏率与基础高宽比的关系;并研究了土体破坏率不同时,地基承载力系数Nq和Nγ与土体内摩擦角之间的关系。     

饱和软黏土中不同形状深水防沉板基础承载特性研究

防沉板基础是水下井口、管汇节点与管汇终端等的永久支撑结构,其承受的荷载具有明显的复杂性、非线性和不确定性,给防沉板基础的稳定性研究带来了巨大挑战。本文研究了在剪切强度随深度线性增长的不排水饱和软黏土中,相同用钢量条件下矩形、方形、六边形和圆形防沉板基础的承载特性。采用数值模拟方法确定了竖向荷载V、水平向荷载H(H_x、H_y)、弯矩荷载M(M_x、M_y)和扭矩荷载T联合作用下,防沉板基础在V-H、V-M、V-T、H_x-H_y、M_x-M_y、T-H和T-M荷载空间的地基承载力包络线,并建立了相应的拟合公式。研究表明,不同的基础形状对其承载力影响显著,当V较大时,适宜选用圆形基础;当H较为显著时,应选用矩形或方形基础;圆形、方形和矩形基础的抗弯特性分别适用于不同条件下M为主控荷载的情况;当T的影响不可忽视时,矩形或方形基础为首选形式,六边形和圆形基础次之。     

土体疲劳对打桩分析的影响

在动力沉桩过程中,桩长时间连续运动导致桩侧土体强度的降低,使土体产生疲劳效应。结合一维应力波动理论,桩土相互作用模型和土体疲劳的不同计算方法,编制计算软件,对渤海某油田采油平台的桩基工程进行打桩分析,预测沉桩过程所需的锤击数、桩周土静阻力以及桩的极限承载力。比较不同的桩侧土体疲劳计算模式的分析结果,并用工程实测数据验证计算值。为工程设计和施工提供参考。     

海上风电单桩基础周围土体地震液化分析

基于室内土工动三轴土体液化试验,采用有限元分析计算与剪应力比较法相结合的综合判别方法,对于黄河三角洲地区海上风电单桩基础周围土体是否会液化进行了判断,并且通过对比不同位置处土体单元受力情况,总结出单桩基础的存在对于其周围土体地震荷载作用下动力响应的影响。研究发现,土体液化只会在一定深度内发生,12m以下土体由于上覆有效应力较大基本不会发生液化。单桩基础对于桩内土体约束作用十分明显,同时会剧烈加大桩侧土体的受力。本文通过对土体施加X轴方向上的加速度的方式模拟地震作用,结果显示,位于单桩基础X轴方向上的土体单元相较于Y轴方向上等距离的土体单元,受到的剪应力振荡幅度要大的多。     

海上风电基础结构动力分析

针对单桩、三桩、四桩导管架3种常规海上风电基础结构型式动力特性展开研究。以模态分析为基础,获得结构整体固有频率和振型;进而综合运用谐响应分析、瞬态分析、谱分析等方法,对基础结构在简谐荷载、冲击荷载、地震荷载及波浪荷载作用下的动力响应特性进行了数值模拟计算和分析。结果显示:本设计中的单桩、三桩、四桩基础结构刚度依次增大,一阶固有频率递增;对于相同的动力荷载激励,基础结构动力响应递减;基础结构设计中既要保证结构具有足够的刚度以满足荷载作用下的变形控制要求,还要使基础刚度适中以避免共振。为海上风电基础结构动力分析提供了参考。     

海底管线地震应力影响分析

基于Biot动力固结理论建立海床-管线相互作用的计算模型。利用粘弹性人工边界,以大型有限元软件ADINA为平台对El Centro地震波作用下的海底管线的动力响应进行分析,重点讨论管线覆盖层几何形状以及海床土各向异性对海床土体的孔隙水压力和管线内应力的影响,更为实际地反映了海底管线的地震应力作用。     

基于弹簧—阻尼理论的海上变电站动力特性研究

近年来,随着海上风电的迅速发展,海上变电站的建设也逐渐兴起。然而,错综复杂、瞬息万变的海洋环境对变电站的安全性和稳定性提出了严峻的挑战,因此有必要加强对变电站分析和研究的重视。为了提高变电站数值模型分析的效率,研究以海上风电场变电站为中心,采用ABAQUS建立了实体土有限元模型和基于弹簧—阻尼理论的有限元模型,以模拟桩土相互作用。随后进行了模态分析、风浪流响应分析和地震响应分析研究。研究结果表明：使用两种模型进行模态分析得出的振型非常相似,频率误差小于5%。此外,在承受风和波流荷载时,两种模型得出的变电站结构响应具有显著的一致性。在地震荷载作用下,两个模型中样本点位移时程曲线的相位频率与测量数据非常接近。值得注意的是,基于弹簧—阻尼理论的模型计算出的振幅与地震波测量数据更为接近。此外,弹簧—阻尼理论方法还大大提高了计算效率。     

海上风电单桩基础土相互作用特性影响因素分析

采用有限元软件ABAQUS建立了海上风电单桩基础与土相互作用数值计算模型,将波浪、洋流及风荷载等效成双向对称循环荷载,研究了水平循环荷载作用下不同因素对桩身水平位移、剪力和弯矩的影响规律。研究表明,随着循环荷载比的增加,桩身位移零点和桩身剪力反弯点沿埋深逐渐下移,桩身弯矩最大值点位于浅层土体;不同荷载频率时桩身位移在零点以上变化较大,桩身弯矩随着频率的增加逐渐增大;单向循环荷载作用下桩身位移最大,双向对称循环荷载作用下桩身位移最小;壁厚较小时对桩身水平位移影响较大;在位移零点之上范围内可以考虑设计"上厚下薄"的钢管桩,以减小桩身水平位移;不同桩壁厚时桩身剪力曲线在埋深约6D处出现交点,且泥面处桩身弯矩变化不明显。     

Vertical vibration capacity of a single pile in dry sand

In this study, the dynamic response of pile foundation in dry sandy soil excited by two opposite rotary machines was considered experimentally. A small scale physical model was manufactured to accomplish the experimental work in the laboratory. The physical model consists of two small motors supplied with eccentric mass (0.012?kg) and eccentric distance (20?mm) representing the two opposite rotary machines, an aluminum shaft as the pile, and a steel plate a pile cap. The experimental work was achieved taking the following parameters into considerations: pile embedment depth ratio (L/d, where L is the pile length and d is its diameter) and operating frequency of the rotary machines. All tests were conducted in medium dense fine sandy soil with 60% relative density. Twelve tests were performed to measure the change in load transferred through the pile’s tip to the underlying soil. To predict precisely the dynamic load that will be induced from the rotary machines, a mini load cell with a capacity of 100?kg was mounted between the aluminum plate (the machine base) and the steel plate (pile cap). The results revealed that, before machine operation, the pile tip load was approximately equal to the static load (machine and pile cap), whereas during machines’ operation, the pile tip load decreased for all embedment depth ratios and operating frequencies. This reduction was due to the action of skin friction that was mobilized along the pile during operation, and as a result the factor of safety against pile bearing failure increases. For all operating frequencies and pile lengths, the factor of safety against bearing failure increased during machines’ operation, where the pile tip load became less than its value before starting operation. During operation, the skin friction resistance mobilized along pile length led to decrease the bearing load.     

Numerical Studies on Piled Gravity Base Foundation for Offshore Wind Turbine

This study aims to investigate a hybrid gravity base foundation to support offshore wind tower. A new hybrid gravity base foundation considered in this study has five component piles, referred to as ‘piled gravity base foundation’. The three-dimensional finite element analyses were carried out for the piled gravity base foundation subjected to a combined load with a lateral load and overturning moment. The parametric analyses were undertaken varying the loading height and direction, the rigidity of the piled gravity base foundation, the field soil layers, and the clay strength. Overall, the response of the piled gravity base foundation was significantly influenced by the interaction between the cone base piles and the surrounding soil. The increased strength of the soil led to a significant reduction of the pile and gravity base foundation responses, in terms of the bending moments, axial forces, lateral displacements, and rotations.     

A Model Test on the Behavior of a Static Drill Rooted Nodular Pile Under Compression

A static drill rooted nodular pile is a new type of composite pile foundation with high bearing capacity, and mud emissions can be largely reduced using the static drill rooted method. This report presents a model test on the behavior of this composite pile in a test box. The load-displacement response, axial force, skin friction, and mobilized base load are discussed in the report; in particular, the force in the cemented soil was investigated based on the measured data. Moreover, the finite element software ABAQUS was used to help investigate this behavior more thoroughly. It was determined that the function of the cemented soil around the pile shaft was different from that at the enlarged pile base; the stress in the cemented soil around the shaft increased suddenly when nearing the pile base; the ultimate skin friction obtained in the model test was larger than that estimated in the field test; and the relative displacement between the precast nodular pile and the cemented soil could be ignored during the loading process, which corresponded to the result of the field test and demonstrated that the nodular pile and cemented soil act as one entity during the loading process.     

Shaking Table Tests of Four-Bucket Jacket Foundation for Offshore Wind Turbines

As the offshore wind turbine foundation, the four-bucket jacket foundation has a large stiffness and the structure is difficult to be damaged under seismic load. Nevertheless, the saturated subsoil of the four-bucket jacket foundation tends to be liquefied under earthquake, which greatly affects the safety of offshore wind turbine. Therefore, the seismic performance of four-bucket jacket foundation is mainly reflected in the anti-liquefaction capacity of foundation soil. In this paper, the liquefaction resistance of sandy soil of four-bucket jacket foundation for offshore wind turbine is studied. The liquefaction and dynamic response of sandy soil foundation of four-bucket jacket foundation under seismic load are obtained by carrying out the shaking table test, and the influence mechanism of four-bucket jacket foundation on the liquefaction resistance of sandy soil foundation is analyzed.

     

V⁃H荷载作用下海洋平台吸力式桩桶桩土承载特性研究

用于海洋平台的吸力式桩桶基础作为一种新型平台基础正逐渐成为人们研究的重点。为研究吸力式桩桶单桩基础的受力特性,对V-H（竖向—水平）联合荷载作用下的吸力式单桩基础桩土的承载特性进行了数值模拟,并将数值模拟的有限元解通过与API规范中对p-y曲线的计算方法进行对比来验证有限元模型的可行性,最后采用分级作用力的加载方式对其破坏包络曲线进行绘制,并推导出相应的函数表达式。研究表明,采用ABAQUS有限元分析软件对吸力式桩桶进行数值模拟是可行的,随着对吸力式桩桶所施加V-H联合荷载的不断增大,吸力式桩桶所能体现的应力和弯矩极限值也在随之增大,其位移变化主要在施加荷载的区域附近,最后在联合荷载作用下所体现的极限承载状态,即包络曲线大致呈四分之一的椭圆形状。     

Evaluation of liquefaction potential of marine sandy soil with piles considering nonlinear seismic soil–pile interaction; A simple predictive model

Abstract

An elastoplastic, dynamic, finite-difference method was applied to study the effects of nonlinear seismic soil–pile interaction on the liquefaction potential of marine sand with piles. The developed model was well validated using the centrifuge test. The results showed that acceleration, bending moment, and excess pore water pressure complied well with centrifuge test results. The effect of different affecting parameters on liquefaction potential was investigated using parametric study. Using a sensitivity analysis, the pile embedment parameter was shown to be the most influential parameter. Finally, applying the evolutionary polynomial regression technique, a new model for predicting the liquefaction potential was presented.     

Numerical Analysis of Seismic Performance of Embankment Supported by Micropiles

This paper presents a numerical model of the seismic behavior for the embankment constructed on micropile composite foundation. The effect of micropiles on soil reinforcement under static and seismic loading was studied. Embankments on the untreated and treated soil by micropiles were numerically simulated using an axisymmetric elastoplastic large deformation finite-element analysis code. The displacement caused by embankment static loading and acceleration of the embankment caused by seismic loading were calculated and compared. It was shown that micropiles can greatly reduce the settlement of the embankment and mitigate seismic response of the embankment. The main objective of this paper is to present a numerical model and to investigate the seismic behavior of micropile foundations subjected to seismic loading. A series of numerical simulations and parametric studies are presented.     

浅谈挤密碎石桩的施工方法

挤密碎石桩施工法是一种振动成桩法,即先用桩管振动成孔,然后填入足够数量的碎石,最后振动密实成桩体。通过振动、挤密的成桩过程,将原地基土振动夯实,桩体与桩间土形成复合地基,达到既处理可液化地基又增强地基的效果。介绍了挤密碎石柱的施工方法和质量检测方法。