Centrifugal test of a road embankment built after new dredger fill on thick marine clay

Abstract

The construction of a 100-km road network is planned on a land reclamation area in the Oujiang Estuary in China. The embankment had a height of 4 m and a base width of 60 m. The reclamation area is newly filled by a 3-m dredger fill on a 48-m thick layer of marine clay. Estimation of the settlement of the future road network is difficult. To guide the construction of the road network, a 1/100-scale centrifuge model test was performed with a marine clay sample from the construction site to simulate the layered settlements and evaluate the drainage effect of prefabricated vertical drains in the dredger fill in the following 10 years. The results of the centrifuge modeling test are verified by 10-month in situ monitoring, which shows agreement between the centrifuge modeling test results and the in situ results. The test results indicate that additional time is needed to reinforce the newly added dredger fill by the surcharge preloading method to uplift the elevation of the reclamation area with dredger fill.     

真空-堆载预压处理高速公路软基的有限元计算

根据高速公路路基的变形特点，提出了真空-堆载联合预压法处理软基的三维Biot固结有限元计算模型，将砂井按照实际尺寸划分单元，避免了平面计算方法中的砂井处理的问题，较以往的平面数值方法更接近实际情况。结合修正剑桥模型，对某真空-堆载联合预压试验段进行了计算、分析，结果令人满意。     

堆载地基与邻近桩基的相互作用分析

本文在分析堆载条件下邻近桩基与土体的相互作用时，提出了改进弹性地基梁模型，采和最小势能原理推导了改进弹性地基梁的有限杆系法平衡方程，并编制了相应的分析程序EFBMPP，对影响桩基变位和弯矩的影响因素进行了计算分析。     

土钉墙模型试验分析

通过土钉墙模型试验,研究土钉的分布对上钉墙成形整体的作用,超载对土钉墙的影响。     

不同平衡堆载条件下桩基承载特性的原位试验研究

沿海吹填围垦地区土质较差,淤泥软弱土层较厚,在后期填土作用下土体会产生很大的固结沉降。后期不同堆载填土方式对桥梁基础影响较大,可降低基桩承载力,同时平衡堆载主要增加基桩的沉降,而不平衡堆载则对基桩水平位移影响较大。结合台州湾大桥工程建设,选取3根基桩进行了平衡堆载（围载）试验,另外,选取了3根基桩进行了不平衡堆载试验,研究不同堆载条件下对桩基承载特性的影响。现场试验结果表明,平衡堆载条件下主要引起桩侧产生负摩阻力,堆载高度达到4 m,堆载面积为24 m×16 m时,负摩阻力总和达到2 687 kN左右,中性点深度约为29.5 m,约为0.36倍桩长,且负摩阻力的发展是随时间而变化的;不平衡堆载条件下主要产生土拱效应,使桩基产生较大的水平位移,试验中不平衡堆载对吹填区的影响主要在距离地面20 m范围之内,土中最大水平位移出现在距离地面4～5 m左右位置,而桩身最大水平位移出现在桩顶。     

地面超载引起邻近埋地管道的位移分析

地基土承受超载作用时就会产生沉降,在土体沉降作用下埋置于其中的管道,管壁就会产生变形甚至破裂。为分析地面超载对临近地下管线的影响,基于温克勒（Winkler）弹性地基短梁理论,应用Boussinesq解,考虑地面超载引起下卧层的沉降及地基土体的侧向移动对管道的影响,建立地面超载对埋地管道影响的分析计算模型,并采用有限差分法进行求解;通过算例分析了超载大小、位置,管道刚度、埋深、管径以及土体性质对埋地管道位移的影响;结果表明：超载大小、管道的刚度、埋深、管径对地下管道位移的影响较大,而当地基基床系数和超载离管道的距离增大到一定值时,地面超载对其影响将减弱。因此,需要考虑邻近超载对管道的影响,合理制定埋地管道的保护措施。     

真空联合堆载预压下混凝土芯砂石桩复合地基固结特性理论分析

真空联合堆载预压与混凝土芯砂石桩复合地基相结合是处理深厚软土地基的一种新方法。该方法既能利用预制混凝土芯桩提高地基承载力,又能利用砂石外壳缩短排水路径、传递真空负压,加快固结。根据真空联合堆载预压下混凝土芯砂石桩复合地基的固结特点,将堆载预压和真空预压的固结效应分开考虑,然后再进行叠加,推导出了真空联合堆载预压下混凝土芯砂石桩复合地基的平均固结度解析解,并利用三维数值模拟对平均固结度解析解进行了验证。通过对解析解的参数分析,探讨了置换率、涂抹区大小及渗透系数、混凝土芯砂石桩长径比和芯桩率对混凝土芯砂石桩复合地基固结特性的影响。结果表明,混凝土芯砂石桩复合地基的固结速率随着置换率和芯桩率的增大而增大,随涂抹区和砂石外壳直径之比、未扰动区和涂抹区渗透系数之比、长径比的增大而减小。     

真空联合堆载预压加固土体的工程地质性质

为解决一些软土不能满足工程建设要求的问题, 必须对其进行加固处理。本文借助室内试验, 对比江门软土加固前后的基本物理性质、物理化学性质和力学性质, 借助扫描电镜( SEM) 对比研究加固前后土体微结构和工程性质的变化。研究表明: 加固后黏粒组含量明显减少, 砂砾组和粉粒组含量明显增加, pH值降低, 阳离子交换量大幅下降, Ca2 + 、CI- 和HCO - 3 含量减小, 其他离子含量变化不明显。加固过程增加了颗粒之间的连结力, 力学性质明显提高。加固前软土的微结构以絮凝状结构为主, 大孔隙较多; 加固后以团粒状结构为主, 粒内和粒间孔隙变小。真空联合堆载预压加固效果明显, 软土工程性质明显提高, 可以满足工程建设的需要。     

条形荷载下挡土墙主动土压力计算

考虑条形荷载对滑裂面倾角的影响,改进了库仑土压力理论的极限平衡方法,对条形荷载下的主动土压力进行研究,得到了条形荷载全部作用于土楔体上和被滑裂面截断两种情况下的土压力理论公式。当荷载为0时,该公式可退化到库仑理论。分析表明,在条形荷载被滑裂面截断时,主动滑裂面的倾角不仅与土体内摩擦角、墙土摩擦角、地面倾角等因素有关,而且还与条形荷载的大小和荷载离开墙背的距离有关,土压力系数K随荷载离墙顶水平距离的增大而减小,随荷载的增大而增大。     

Analytical stress and displacement due to twin tunneling in an elastic semi‐infinite ground subjected to surcharge loads

The construction of twin tunnels at shallow depth has become increasingly common in urban areas. In general, twin tunnels are usually near each other, in which the interaction between tunnels is too significant to be ignored on their stability. The equivalent arbitrarily distributed loads imposed on ground surface were considered in this study, and a new analytical approach was provided to efficiently predict the elastic stresses and displacements around the twin tunnels. The interaction between 2 tunnels of different radii with various arrangements was taken into account in the analysis. We used the Schwartz alternating method in this study to reduce the twin‐tunnel problem to a series of problems where only 1 tunnel was contained in half‐plane. The convergent and highly accurate analytical solutions were achieved by superposing the solutions of the reduced single‐tunnel problems. The analytical solutions were then verified by the good agreement between analytical and numerical results. Furthermore, by the comparison on initial plastic zone and surface settlement between analytical solution and numerical/measured results of elastoplastic cases, it was proven that the analytical solution can accurately predict the initial plastic zone and its propagation direction and can qualitatively provide the reliable ground settlements. A parametric study was finally performed to investigate the influence of locations of surcharge load and the tunnel arrangement on the ground stresses and displacements. The new solution proposed in this study provides an insight into the interaction of shallow twin tunnels under surcharge loads, and it can be used as an alternative approach for the preliminary design of future shallow tunnels excavated in rock or medium/stiff clay.