天津滨海滩涂土动剪切模量比和动阻尼比试验

通过控制振动三轴试验,分析了天津滨海滩涂淤泥质粉质黏土、粉质黏土和粉砂的最大剪切模量、剪切模量与阻尼比随剪应变的变化关系,对比研究了滨海滩涂土与渤海海底土的动剪切模量、动阻尼比随剪应变变化的差异,证明了土动力学参数的区域性.     

循环荷载作用下粉土的动力学特征

选用近海分布广泛的粉土为研究对象,利用动三轴压缩试验结果得到了动荷载作用下粉土的应力-应变关系、孔压发展模式及动强度与临界循环次数之间的关系;探讨固结围压和固结比对粉土动力学性质的影响。动力学试验结果表明,动剪切模量随着固结围压的增大而增大,动阻尼比随动剪应变幅的变化关系受围压影响不大;不同围压对动剪应力的比值影响很小,同一围压下随着固结比的增大,动剪应力比也会随之增大;不同围压及不同固结比对以Nf表示的峰值孔隙水压力发展模式影响很小。     

海洋粉质粘土在波浪荷载作用后的不排水抗剪强度衰化特性

通过对南海重塑粉质粘土土样的大量动三轴试验结果分析,得到此种土在波浪荷载作用后不捧水抗剪强度衰化同动载作用引起的动应变幅及平均累积孔压之间的相互关系和预估公式;并通过与超固结土样的静三轴剪切试验结果的比较,发现动、静三轴两种试验结果具有很好的吻合关系。建议可用超固结土样的静三轴剪切试验同时结合部分动三轴试验来预估土样在波浪荷载作用后不排水抗剪强度衰化与平均累积孔压之间的关系。     

南海深海海底沉积物力学性质试验研究

采用土力学中的三轴试验方法,对南海深海海底沉积物进行力学性能研究。得到海底沉积物样品的主应力差与轴向应变曲线及抗剪强度数据,并得到海底沉积物样品的破坏点应力值与含水量、湿密度及孔隙度的关系曲线。通过分析,得到海底沉积物样品的破坏点应力值在含水量40%~45%之间以及在孔隙度50%~55%之间分别取得最大值。通过对比表明试验的海底沉积物样品的力学性能与陆地的半脆性黏土相近。     

东海深部地层时深转换关系的分段优化拟合

在将钻井垂直地震剖面(VSP)数据的时深拟合公式应用于深部地层的时深转换时,拟合深度与计算的层速度常常不够准确。本文首先利用多项式和幂函数给出了东海陆架盆地中部某凹陷41口钻井VSP数据的时深拟合公式,并用双程旅行时(TWT)最深达8 s的三维地震速度体数据与多道地震剖面对拟合公式在深部地层的适用性进行分析。在TWT为8 s时,速度体数据表明41口钻井位置的平均深度为18 140 m,平均层速度为6 208 m/s,二次多项式的平均拟合深度较之偏高9.2%,计算的层速度偏高36.2%,幂函数则分别偏低28.9%与35.6%,拟合效果都不理想。对此,本文采用通过识别VSP数据的增速拐点并对增速拐点前的VSP数据进行二次多项式拟合,对增速拐点后的VSP数据进行幂函数拟合的分段拟合模型,将TWT为8 s时的平均拟合深度和层速度的误差降到3.3%与4.7%。地震剖面显示研究区莫霍面深度约为TWT=11 s,分段拟合模型在TWT=11 s的平均拟合深度为27 516 m,层速度为7 334 m/s,更接近前人研究成果,表明该模型能显著提高深部地层时深转换的精度。     

南海珠江口盆地贝壳砂土力学性质初步研究

通过对珠江口盆地广布的贝壳砂的化学组分、粒度组成、形成时代的研究以及对砂土进行直剪试验、高压固结试验、常规三轴剪切试验和动三轴试验，对贝壳砂的土力学性质及动载荷作用下的稳定性作了初步分析，获取了贝壳砂的基本物理力学参数并评价了地震作用下砂土液化的可能性，为海洋工程的设计和施工提供了基本的物理力学参数。     

未胶结钙质砂静力和循环强度的单剪试验研究

通过等体积的单调和循环单剪试验研究南海未胶结钙质砂的静、动力反应,讨论应力水平和相对密实度对钙质砂静、动力强度的影响,并与典型的石英砂性质进行比较。在单调单剪试验中,中密和密实钙质砂在100～400 k Pa范围的初始竖向应力下都表现出应变硬化的性质,有效内摩擦角随剪应变增大。在循环单剪试验中,钙质砂的反应与相对密实度和初始竖向应力密切相关,但中密和密实钙质砂中的等效孔压都能达到初始竖向应力的85%～90%,此时剪应变突增,试样发生破坏。与相近密实度的石英砂相比,钙质砂抵抗液化的能力更强。提出了南海钙质砂动强度的归一化表达式,建立了不排水静强度、不排水动强度和循环次数之间的关系。     

南海珠江口盆地贝壳砂土力学性质初步研究

通过对珠江口盆地广布的贝壳砂的化学组分、粒度组分、形成时代的研究以及对砂土进行直剪试验、主高压结试验、常规三轴剪切试验和动三轴试验，对贝壳砂的土力学性质及动载荷作用下的稳定性作了初步分析，获取了贝壳砂的基本物理力学参数并评价了地震作用下砂土液化的可能性，为海洋工程的设计和施工提供了基本的物理力学参数。     

分段多项式风浪频谱

本文分两段、三段、四段给出多项式形式的风浪频谱，它们满足下述条件：分段处谱值及斜率均连续；谱峰位于给定点（ωｏ，ｐ）；谱矩与有效波高Ｈ，平均周期Ｔ之间满足关系式Ｈ＝４．０√ｍ０，Ｔ＝２π（ｍ０／ｍ１）或Ｔ＝２π√ｍ０／ｍ２。多项式谱的指数和分段点均是可变的，因而谱形可在较大范围内调整，以便拟合实测谱和各种不同形式的谱。文中给出用四段多项式谱拟合ＪＮＳＷＡＰ谱的实例。     

导航雷达信号估计波高的改进算法

导航用X波段雷达扫描得到的"海杂波"图像含有丰富的海浪和海表层流信息,借鉴合成孔径雷达(SAR)估算有效波高的方法,可由X波段雷达图像估计得到海浪的有效波高。在此基础上,初步提出利用多项式回归方法估算有效波高的新数学模型,同时提出利用分段函数拟合来进一步提高反演精度。仿真实验中,根据模拟的波高数据,将其分为低波高和高波高来分析,结果显示,利用多项式回归方法进行分段拟合可提高反演的精确度,验证了所提算法具有一定可行性和有效性。     

Experimental and theoretical methods on determination of stress-dependent natural frequency of marine sedimentary clay

Excited by the vibration sources in dynamic engineering, the natural frequency and damping factor of the saturated marine sedimentary clay are key dynamic parameters that influence the responses under cyclic loads. Experimental and theoretical methods are proposed in this paper to analyze the natural frequency and the stress-dependent nonlinearity. The experimental method shows that the natural frequency of soils with specific stress state subjected to large cyclic shear strain can be estimated from the data of dynamic triaxial tests based on the amplitude–frequency response curve. Trial and error by the criterion from the half-power bandwidth method is used to determine the optimal fitting. The results of a theoretical study on the free vibration of soil layers are then presented to derive the analytic solution of natural frequency. In addition to the two frequency-independent elements (a lumped mass matrix and a stiffness matrix), the system’s equivalent damping coefficient matrix is iteratively determined based upon the forced vibration experimentally. Finally, the impacts of the resonance phenomenon on the dynamic shear modulus and hysteretic loop are discussed.     

A note on the effects of a thin visco-elastic mud layer on small amplitude water-wave propagation

In this note we investigated the effects of a thin visco-elastic mud layer on wave propagation. Within the framework of linear water-wave theory, analytical solutions are obtained for damping rate, dispersion relation between wave frequency and wave number, and velocity components in the water column and mud layer. The wave attenuation rate reaches a maximum value when the mud layer thickness is about the same as the mud boundary layer thickness. Heavier mud has a weaker effect on the wave damping. However, the wave attenuation rate does not always decrease as the elastic shear modulus increases. In the range of small values for elastic shear modulus, the wave attenuation can be amplified quite significantly. The current solutions are compared with experimental data with different wave conditions and mud properties. In general, good agreements are observed.     

DIAS—a novel technique for measuring in situ shear modulus

DIAS (duomorph in situ acquisition system) is an alternate technology requiring a single duomorph probe for measuring shear modulus in situ. The duomorph probe is a bending plate device that is vibrated and the resulting deflections measured using strain gauges. The ratio between the unconstrained bending of the duomorph in air and the constrained bending in sediment is a function of the sediment dynamic modulus from which shear modulus is calculated. This paper describes the theory underlying the DIAS system, the design of the system, the data reduction methods, and results from the initial deployment of the prototype system in Eckernförde Bay.     

Analytical Solution for Wave-Induced Response of Seabed with Variable Shear Modulus

A plane strain analysis based on the generalized Biot's equation is utilized to investigate the wave-induced response of a poro-elastic seabed with variable shear modulus.By employing integral transform and Frobenius methods,the transient and steady solutions for the wave-induced pore water pressure,effective stresses and displacements are analytically derived in detail.Verification is available through the reduction to the simple case of homogeneous seabed.The numerical results indicate that the inclusion of variable shear modulus significantly affects the wave-induced seabed response.     

Analysis of wave-induced liquefaction in seabed deposits of silt

The dynamic stress introduced in half elastic space by wave loading is characterized by the equation between the magnitude of half cyclic axial stress and cyclic torsion shear stress and the principal stress,whose direction rotates continuously and compression stress on seabed can be calculated by the use of small amplitude wave theory.With relationship curves of saturated silt of liquefaction cycles and cyclic stress ratios obtained by cyclic triaxial-torsional coupling shear tests and curve fitting method to different data points of relative density,it is suggested that the cyclic stress ratio corresponding to constant liquefaction impedance be taken as the critical cyclic stress ratio which implies liquefaction.There exists a linear relationship between critical cyclic stress ratio and relative density under different relative densities.Empirical formula for critical cyclic stress ratios of seabed liquefaction induced by wave loading under different relative densities is established.The possibility of seabed silt liquefaction and its influence factors are analyzed based on the small-amplitude wave theory and the data acquired in laboratory tests.     

岭估计在多项式曲面拟合GPS高程中的应用

探讨了岭估计方法在GPS高程拟合中的应用,并给出了岭估计中确定岭参数k值的一种新方法——方差扩大因子法。通过某地区GPS水准网数据进行实验验证,结果表明,与传统多项式曲面拟合模型比较,岭估计方法具有拟合精度高、适用复杂的地形等特点。     

A method analyzing deformation of anchor foundations in soft clay under static and cyclic loads

The paper presents a constitutive model to describe undrained cyclic stress-strain responses of soft clays based on the equivalent visco-elastic and creep theories. The hysteretic and nonlinear stress-strain responses of soft clays are described using the equivalent visco-elastic relationship and variations of the cyclic modulus and the damping ratio with the octahedral shear strain, respectively in the model. The cyclic accumulative strain is described using the Mises creeping potential function and the associated flow rule. The method determining the model parameters is given by static and cyclic triaxial tests. The finite element method to analyze deformation of anchor foundation in soft clay under static and cyclic loads is developed based on the model. For the method, a cyclic loading time history is divided into a series of incremental loading sub-processes which include one load cycle at least. The cyclic stress-strain responses of soil elements at any time are not tracked in detail and determined by the equivalent visco-elastic calculations for every loading sub-process. The accumulative deformation of anchor foundations is calculated using the initial strain algorithm. The method has been implemented in ABAQUS Software by developing interface programs. Model tests of the suction anchors are conducted and predicted using the method. Comparisons of predicted and model test results show that the method can be used to evaluate cyclic stability and reveal the failure process and mechanism of anchor foundations by analyzing deformation time-histories.     

Particle Flow Simulation on Collapse Characteristics of Silt Under Mutation of Principal Stress Orientation

The behaviors of granular material and influencing factors under complex dynamic loading are studied by more and more researchers with particle flow method. Only the strain-controlled loading has been generally used in the current study, although this method was not consistent with the practice of engineering in many situations. In this article, stress-controlled dynamic simulation tests were carried out with particle flow method, which were used to study the collapse characteristics of silt under mutation of principal stress orientation. The tests were performed by PFC2D. The simulation results and the laboratory real tests’ results had a high degree of similarity, particularly in the collapse strain and vibration times. It was very useful to forecast the silt's critical failure state. Based on the verification data, the effects of confining pressure and cyclic shear stress ratio on the collapse characteristics of silt were studied further. With the increase of cyclic shear stress ratio, the deviator strain amplitude increased and the required vibration times gradually reduced to achieve the same strain level. Under the same dynamic shear stress ratio and vibration times, the initial dynamic elastic modulus slightly increased with the increase of initial confining pressure, and the variation range of final collapse deviator strain was small. In the analysis of micro-structural evolution, the redistribution of internal stress of sample was revealed during cyclic loading. With the increase of vibration times, the development of distribution gradually stabilized, and then the high shear stress appeared in some connected regions. On that stage, the particle system developed to instability and failure. The PFC simulation results confirmed that the collapse state was the critical stage to trigger the liquefaction of silt.     

Accurate polynomial expressions for the density and specific volume of seawater using the TEOS-10 standard

A new set of approximations to the standard TEOS-10 equation of state are presented. These follow a polynomial form, making it computationally efficient for use in numerical ocean models. Two versions are provided, the first being a fit of density for Boussinesq ocean models, and the second fitting specific volume which is more suitable for compressible models. Both versions are given as the sum of a vertical reference profile (6th-order polynomial) and an anomaly (52-term polynomial, cubic in pressure), with relative errors of ∼0.1% on the thermal expansion coefficients. A 75-term polynomial expression is also presented for computing specific volume, with a better accuracy than the existing TEOS-10 48-term rational approximation, especially regarding the sound speed, and it is suggested that this expression represents a valuable approximation of the TEOS-10 equation of state for hydrographic data analysis. In the last section, practical aspects about the implementation of TEOS-10 in ocean models are discussed.