基于扰动状态概念的结构性土压缩特性分析

由于土结构性的影响天然沉积土的结构是亚稳定的,屈服后的压缩变形阶段必然伴随着结构的破损。将附加孔隙比?e作为表征原状土的一个结构状态参数,基于扰动状态概念,引入定量分析附加孔隙比?e随固结压力变化关系的方法,得到一维扰动状态概念(DSC)压缩模型,以描述结构性土压缩损伤现象,并通过结构破损指数b来刻画压缩过程中的结构破损速率。根据该模型,对太湖湖沼相典型的天然沉积软黏土、粉质黏土和硬黏土不扰动试样的一维压缩试验结果进行模拟和分析,并结合试验数据提出了模型参数的测定方法。分析结果验证了该模型能够描述具有不同结构形式土样的压缩特性及其实际变形过程中表现出的非线性,这给结构性土非线性固结与沉降计算提供了一定的理论基础。     

胶结结构性土统一硬化模型

结构性土颗粒间的胶结使试样剪切破坏最终应力比高于相应重塑土,也限制了试样剪切时体积应变的自由发挥。在考虑结构垮塌为主的结构性土统一硬化(UH)模型基础上,将应力空间中静止的临界状态线扩展为动态的移动临界状态线。据此,通过建立新的屈服面方程并修正剪胀方程,将结构性土统一硬化(UH)模型扩展为胶结结构性土统一硬化(UH)模型。相对于原模型,新模型增加了1个模型参数,即初始胶结应力,反映土颗粒之间的初始胶结作用。通过4种结构性土试验数据与模型预测对照表明：所提模型能够较合理地描述结构性土等向压缩、常规三轴排水与不排水剪切等特性。     

结构性土压缩曲线的数学模拟

在总结结构性土压缩特点的基础上,以岩土破损力学理论中的弹塑性元（软弱带）为参照状态,通过引入一个可以表征土体结构影响的结构状态参数 ,建立了结构性土压缩曲线的数学表达式。通过结构性土的单轴压缩试验和等向压缩试验,验证了建议的模型可以较好地模拟结构性土的压缩变形特性。由于建议的表达式可以反映结构性土的压缩曲线在 - 坐标中的非线性,对于结构性土的沉降计算有一定的理论意义。     

结构性土UH模型

在描述重塑土的统一硬化模型（UH模型）基础上,以动态地移动正常固结线（MNCL）代替静态的正常固结线（NCL）作为参考线来确定参考应力,将土的结构性衰减体现在MNCL的演化中,从而把UH模型扩展为可考虑土结构性的结构性土UH模型。结构性土UH模型可以合理地并连续光滑地描述结构性土的等向压缩规律、应变硬化、应变软化、剪切体积收缩、剪切体积膨胀、不排水剪切减压软化以及结构性和密度耦合影响等力学特性。相比于UH模型,结构性土UH模型新增3个参数,分别用于描述结构性的程度、衰减速度、以及塑性流动规律。通过3种天然土的试验结果与模型预测对比验证了结构性土UH 模型的合理性。     

基于微观力学机制的各向异性结构性砂土的本构模型研究

在岩土破损力学基础上,基于微观破损机制,提出了考虑各向异性的结构性砂土本构理论。采用Lade-Duncan强度准则考虑中主应力对抗剪强度的影响;采用考虑颗粒排列组构的各向异性状态变量A反映各向异性对土体强度和变形的影响;通过相似扩大重塑土的屈服面反映结构性对土性的影响;通过引入非相关联流动法则考虑各向异性和结构性对土体塑性变形的影响。同时,将基于微观力学机制的损伤演化规律引入结构性土的硬化规律;该硬化规律同时考虑了塑性体积应变和剪切应变对各向异性结构性土强度的影响。然后将该模型用于模拟室内三轴压缩试验,初步验证了该模型的合理性和适用性。     

Drained bearing response of shallow foundations on structured soils

This paper examines the drained bearing response of circular footings resting on structured soil deposits. Numerical simulations have been carried out using a finite element formulation of the Structured Cam Clay model. A parametric study was conducted by varying the parameters that govern the behaviour of structured soils and guidelines are given for designers to identify when effects of the soil structure are important. Under fully drained conditions, deformation within the structured soil supporting the footing usually occurs as a local or punching shear failure due to high compressibility of the structured soil and the mobilised bearing pressure increases with the footing movement, without reaching an ultimate value. A novel approximate method is presented to obtain the load–displacement response of a rigid circular footing resting on the surface of a structured soil deposit. This requires the properties of the soil in the reconstituted state and two additional parameters, which govern the natural structure of the soil. The proposed method has been applied to a published case study, where plate load test results are given for rigid circular steel plates resting on structured soil deposits. Fair agreement is observed between the computed and experimental results, suggesting the approximate method may be useful in design studies of foundations on structured soil deposits.     

结构性土固结不排水剪特性的一种描述方法

针对结构性土的固结不排水剪性状,提出一种基于扰动状态概念的描述方法。通过三轴固结不排水剪试验,分析了结构性土固结不排水剪切过程中的剪应力、孔隙水压力与轴向应变的关系特点。根据扰动状态概念的原理,采用邓肯-张的非线性弹性模型描述相对完整状态的应力-应变关系,用孔隙水压力作为参量定义了一个新的扰动函数,构建了一种描述结构性土固结不排水剪性状的本构关系。经验证,模型计算结果与试验数据吻合较好,可统一描述应变软化型和应变硬化型应力-应变关系。     

A Method for Derivation of Compression Equation and Value of Degradation Exponent for Structured Soils

A method to derive a general equation for compression of structured soils is presented. It is shown that the general equation leads to the equation of compression for structured soils as proposed by Liu and Carter (Geotechnique 49(4):43–57, 1999). Using the compression characteristics of the structured and remolded soil, an equation is developed to determine a unique value for the structure degradation exponent term of the Liu-Carter equation. This equation is used to obtain the value of the structure degradation exponent of the Liu-Carter equation from the compression behavior of undisturbed and remolded Mexico City clay. The value of the exponent is used in the Liu-Carter equation to predict the compression behaviour of the clay. Excellent agreement is observed between predictions and experimental data.     

An anisotropic plasticity clay model accounting for structural effects and overconsolidation

Natural soils such as clays exhibit a variety of features including anisotropy, destruction and overconsolidation. In this work, a constitutive model that is able to replicate those salient features of natural clays is presented. The model is based on the classical S-CLAY1 model, where the anisotropy of the soil is captured through the initial inclination and rotation of the yield surface. To account for overconsolidation, a parabolic Hvorslev envelope is adopted. The compression curve of the reconstituted soil is taken as the reference to describe the structural of the soil. Parameters of the proposed constitutive model all have clear physical meanings and can be conveniently determined from conventional triaixal tests. Numerical examples using the proposed model to simulate overconsolidated natural soils are presented and compared with existing experimental data, demonstrating the capability of the model.     

结构性软黏土时效特性的一维弹黏塑性模拟

为了研究土体结构破坏对软黏土一维变形的时效特性的影响,在Bjerrum的等时间线体系基础上,提出了等黏塑性应变率线等黏塑性应变率线概念,建立了非结构性软黏土的一维弹黏塑性模型;为了描述土体结构渐进破坏特征,定义了结构性参数--结构应变,在非结构性模型的基础上推导了结构性软黏土一维弹黏塑性模型;讨论了通过试验法直接确定模型参数的方法,并利用新建模型对温州天然软黏土的一维常规压缩试验、天然Ariake 黏土的分级快速固结试验、结构性Berthierville黏土的一维等应变率压缩试验及长期蠕变试验进行模拟。模拟与试验结果的对比表明,该模型能较好地描述结构性软黏土一维压缩变形的时效特征。     

重塑黏性土固有压缩特性的探讨

Burland于1990年提出重塑土的固有压缩特性,为定量评价天然沉积结构性黏性土的力学性质提供参考依据。通过对四种液限的重塑土进行大量的室内一维固结试验,重塑土样的初始含水率调整扩大为液限的0.7~2.0倍,探讨了初始含水率,液限对重塑土固有压缩特性的影响。结果表明:重塑土压缩曲线不仅与土的液限有关,还受初始含水率的影响; 在较低固结压力下,采用Burland引入的孔隙指数不能将不同初始含水率的重塑土压缩曲线归一化,但当固结压力超过约25kPa时,各种压缩曲线均可较好地归一化至重塑土的固有压缩曲线(ICL); 此外,重塑土固有压缩参数并非仅与土的液限有关,试验实测的结果显示出与Burland的固有压缩参数经验有一定的偏离,结合试验结果对其进行了修正。     

Cementation effects in two lacustrine clayey soils

This paper describes the main findings of a laboratory study on the mechanical behaviour of cemented geologically normally consolidated lacustrine clayey soils from two sites, Bacinetto (BA) and Avezzano (AZ), in the Fucino basin (Italy). One-dimensional and triaxial compression tests were carried out in order to investigate the effects of the presence and of the progressive degradation of the interparticle cementation bonds. The two tested soils showed quite different physical and mechanical properties, the more apparent ones being plasticity and yield stress values. The experimental results allowed the gross yield curves and the critical state conditions to be identified for both soils (BA clay and AZ silt). A number of typical features generally exhibited by cemented soils were clearly apparent: yield stresses greater than the in situ stress states, both soils being geologically normally consolidated; high values of compressibility index after yielding, which gradually reduce with increasingly applied stresses; strength reductions associated with a globally contractive behaviour. A convenient normalisation of the experimental results, in which the critical state conditions are assumed as a reference state, allowed the effects of cementation bonds and of their progressive degradation to be highlighted. In particular, BA samples were found to be characterised by different structures related to different degrees of cementation. Furthermore, despite the larger values of the yielding stresses exhibited by AZ silt, stronger effects of cementation are apparent in BA soil. Experimental results seem to indicate that at high values of the applied stress and strain paths, when bonds are largely damaged, the structures of the natural and parent reconstituted BA soil continue to be different.     

无黏性土压缩曲线的一种数学模式

总结和分析了已有考虑状态相关的无黏性土压缩曲线数学模式做了。进行了不同初始密度砂土的等向压缩试验,提出了一个新的状态相关压缩曲线数学模式。该数学模式能够反映无黏性土不同初始状态等向压缩下的应力-应变关系,参数物理意义明确、试验确定方法简单、方便。利用4种不同砂土的等向压缩试验数据,验证了所提出的数学模式的合理性和有效性。该模式可应用于一般应力、应变条件下状态相关本构模型的建立     

New basis for the constitutive modelling of aggregated soils

Natural and compacted soils are usually characterized by aggregation of particles. The mechanical behaviour of these materials depends on soil structure. The oedometric compression tests performed on aggregated samples presented here showed that these materials exhibit a yield limit depending not only on stress history and stress state but also on soil structure. Evidence is provided using the neutron tomography technique. These results revealed that soil structure modification occurs together with plastic deformations. The experimental results are used to propose a new state parameter to quantify the soil structure. Based on pore-scale experimental observations, an evolution law for this parameter is proposed as a function of associated plastic strains. Considering both soil fabric and inter-particle bonding effects, a new yield limit depending on stress state, stress history and soil structure is introduced for the aggregated soils. Accordingly, a new constitutive framework consistent with strain hardening plasticity is proposed to consider soil structure effects in the modelling of aggregated soils.     

A critical state model for overconsolidated structured clays

This paper presents a generalised critical state model with the bounding surface theory for simulating the stress–strain behaviour of overconsolidated structured clays. The model is formulated based on the framework of the Structured Cam Clay (SCC) model and is designated as the Modified Structured Cam Clay with Bounding Surface Theory (MSCC-B) model. The hardening and destructuring processes for structured clays in the overconsolidated state can be described by the proposed model. The image stress point defined by the radial mapping rule is used to determine the plastic hardening modulus, which varies along loading paths. A new proposed parameter h, which depends on the material characteristics, is introduced into the plastic hardening modulus equation to take the soil behaviour into account in the overconsolidated state. The MSCC-B model is finally evaluated in light of the model performance by comparisons with the measured data of both naturally and artificially structured clays under compression and shearing tests. From the comparisons, it is found that the MSCC-B model gives reasonable good simulations of mechanical response of structured clays in both drained and undrained conditions. With its simplicity and performance, the MSCC-B model is regarded as a practical geotechnical model for implementation in numerical analysis.     

A unified constitutive model for unsaturated soil under monotonic and cyclic loading

This study presents a sophisticated elastoplastic constitutive model for unsaturated soil using Bishop-type skeleton stress and degree of saturation as state variables in the framework of critical state soil mechanism. The model is proposed in order to describe the coupled hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated soil irrespective of what kind of the loadings or the drainage conditions may be. At the same time, a water retention characteristic curve considering the influence of deformation on degree of saturation is also proposed. In the model, the superloading and subloading concepts are introduced to consider the influences of overconsolidation and structure on deformation and strength of soils. The proposed model only employs nine parameters, among which five parameters are the same as those used in Cam-Clay model. The other four parameters have the clear physical meanings and can be easily determined by conventional soil tests. The capability and accuracy of the proposed model have been validated carefully through a series of laboratory tests such as isotropic loading tests and triaxial monotonic and cyclic compression tests under different mechanical and hydraulic conditions.

     

Stress–strain model for clays with anisotropic void ratio distribution

The porosity of soils is considered to be a directional measure and its distribution is characterized by a functional form. This form has been used to extend the critical state soil mechanics framework to include the effects of structure in soils. A new internal plastic energy dissipation formulation has been proposed to account for fabric arrangement. New expressions for the yield locus, and the plastic stress–strain response of structural soils have been derived. The applicability of the concepts to model the plastic stress–strain behaviour of a number of soils is illustrated. The advantage of the new model is very well identified in modelling the stress–strain behaviour of K₀ consolidated and natural clays. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A two-surface thermomechanical plasticity model considering thermal cyclic behavior

In thermal-related engineering such as thermal energy structures and nuclear waste disposal, it is essential to well understand volume change and excess pore water pressure buildup of soils under thermal cycles. However, most existing thermo-mechanical models can merely simulate one heating–cooling cycle and fail in capturing accumulation phenomenon due to multiple thermal cycles. In this study, a two-surface elasto-plastic model considering thermal cyclic behavior is proposed. This model is based on the bounding surface plasticity and progressive plasticity by introducing two yield surfaces and two loading yield limits. A dependency law is proposed by linking two loading yield limits with a thermal accumulation parameter n_c, allowing the thermal cyclic behavior to be taken into account. Parameter n_c controls the evolution rate of the inner loading yield limit approaching the loading yield limit following a thermal loading path. By extending the thermo-hydro-mechanical equations into the elastic–plastic state, the excess pore water pressure buildup of soil due to thermal cycles is also accounted. Then, thermal cycle tests on four fine-grained soils (natural Boom clay, Geneva clay, Bonny silt, and reconstituted Pontida clay) under different OCRs and stresses are simulated and compared. The results show that the proposed model can well describe both strain accumulation phenomenon and excess pore water pressure buildup of fine-grained soils under the effect of thermal cycles.