Effects of cross-correlated multiple spatially random soil properties on wave-induced oscillatory seabed response

The evaluation of seabed response under wave loading is important for prediction of stability of foundations of offshore structures. In this study, a stochastic finite element model which integrates the Karhunen-Loève expansion random field simulation and finite element modeling of wave-induced seabed response is established. The wave-induced oscillatory response in a spatially random heterogeneous porous seabed considering cross-correlated multiple soil properties is investigated. The effects of multiple spatial random soil properties, correlation length and the trend function (the relation of the mean value versus depth) on oscillatory pore water pressure and momentary liquefaction are discussed. The stochastic analyses show that the uncertainty bounds of oscillatory pore water pressure are wider for the case with multiple spatially random soil properties compared with those with the single random soil property. The mean pore water pressure of the stochastic analysis is greater than the one obtained by the deterministic analysis. Therefore, the average momentary liquefaction zone in the stochastic analysis is shallower than the deterministic one. The median of momentary liquefaction depth generally decreases with the increase of vertical correlation length. When the slope of the trend function increases, the uncertainty of pore water pressure is greatly reduced at deeper depth of the seabed. Without considering the trend of soil properties, the wave-induced momentary liquefaction potential may be underestimated.     

海洋地基土的随机场特性

对随机场理论应用于海洋土地基可靠度研究中的必要性及其理论意义进行了深入的分析和探讨，提出了检验土性指标的平稳性和各态历经性的方法，结合渤海油田在开发和建设中积累的大量工程地质勘察资料，对海洋土竖直和水平向土性剖面建立齐次正态随机场模型。并在此基础上，以渤海某油田海洋平台的地基可靠度分析为例，说明随机场理论在海洋土地基可靠度分析中的具体应用及其所发挥的重要作用。     

增加近岸船载重力测量数据覆盖的推估方法研究

针对海洋区域离岸距离5～30km的范围内船载重力测量数据覆盖空白的现状,基于已有测线数据,对其进行不同空间距离采样形成对应的采样序列。利用动态时间规整算法计算其与初始测线数据的相关系数,依据相关系数与采样距离之间的关系,确定了最优重采样空间距离新方法。以最优重采样空间距离对测线数据进行重采样,利用拉格朗日插值算法,沿测线方向将测线数据向陆地推估。经过不同测线的内外部检核,结果表明船载重力测量向陆地方向扩展的保守距离约为5～10km,减少了船载重力测量数据在近岸海域覆盖空白的面积。本研究成果可为建立陆海一致垂直基准工作提供更全面的基础数据,技术方法可为航空重力、地磁等测线数据的精细处理及应用提供参考。     

Influence of vacuum preloading on vertical bearing capacities of piles installed on coastal soft soil

Abstract

Land reclamation has increased significantly in the eastern coastal areas of China. The increased exploitation of offshore resources has made cast-in-situ piles more preferable in these regions. However, precise prediction of axial forces and shaft resistances of piles is particularly difficult because geological conditions are complex after the foundation is treated by vacuum preloading. In this study, two groups of cast-in-situ piles, each of which consisted of two piles installed in soft soil in Oufei Project, Wenzhou, China, were compared by conducting tests using the slow static loading method to evaluate the influence of applying vacuum preloading to deal with soft soil foundation on the vertical bearing capacities of the piles. Two piles were located in an untreated area, while the other two were located in a vacuum preloading treating area. All the piles had the same length and diameter. In addition, the axial forces and shaft resistances of piles were calculated based on the measured strains. The field tests revealed that the ultimate bearing capacities and shaft resistances of test piles were significantly improved compared to those of the piles in untreated area. The experimental results presented in this study are expected to be highly beneficial for practical engineering.     

The effects of drag reduction by ribbons attached to cylindrical pipes

This study proposes a drag reduction device that uses three ribbons attached 120 degree apart to vertical pipes. Experiments were conducted in a circulating water channel to investigate the effects of the ribbon length and the direction of the flow on various current velocities. Drag on a vertical cylinder was measured by a resistance dynamometer. Flow visualizations were conducted using laser sheet beams. Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) was used to measure the velocity field in the wake. This experiment demonstrates that attached ribbons can be used to reduce the drag force on vertical pipes for various directions of incoming flows. The ribbon-type device is very simple and easy to fabricate for field applications. The results are promising for the application to offshore structures.     

Simplified procedure for laterally loaded drilled shafts in spatially random clays

Abstract

In this article, a simplified approach for the reliability-based design of laterally loaded drilled shafts considering the spatial variability of soil property is presented. This simplified approach utilizes a conventional reliability method implemented using the variance reduction technique. An algorithm for back-calculating the reduction factor and characteristic length for various shaft slenderness ratios is proposed. This simplified approach can yield responses for drilled shafts that are equivalent to those obtained using random field modeling (RFM), which is a far more complex process. The simplified approach does not require the knowledge of random field theory and can be an efficient design tool in geotechnical engineering practice.     

斜向不规则波对直墙作用的实验研究

通过长峰不规则波和方向波谱对直墙作用的实验研究 ,分别给出了每延米斜向不规则波波浪力与正向力之比 ,方向波谱波浪力与斜向长峰不规则波波浪力之间的关系 ,通过与规则波实验结果的比较给出了斜向规则波与不规则波波浪力之间的相对关系 ;并对斜向不规则波的反射系数与正向波时的变化作出了分析     

Uncertainty analysis of soil-pile interactions of monopile offshore wind turbine support structures

The objective of this work is to study the uncertainties involved in the modelling of the soil-pile interaction concerning their influence on the prediction of the dynamic structural response of monopile offshore wind turbine support structures. Two main issues are identified and addressed: the adequacy of the method used to deal with the soil-pile interactions and the adequacy of the soil properties reflecting the behaviour of the soil. The present study develops an approach that defines the penetrated pile length depending on the soil profile. Also, a parameter is defined to avoid the excessive usage of steel for the penetrated pile structure. The uncertainties are included in the probabilistic free vibration analysis and the contribution of each random variable to the scatter of the response is estimated by performing a sensitivity analysis. The results indicate that the uncertainty involved in the modelling of the soil profile has a significant effect on the coefficient of variance of the natural frequency, which is a serious issue to be considered in the fatigue life assessment of offshore wind turbine support structures.     

Driving energy losses for constant diameter and tapered submerged monopiles

Large monopiles are used as foundations for offshore wind turbines and are generally designed with a tapered section or conical shape. Some loss of driving energy is expected to occur during installation of these structures due to the submerged section of the tapered monopile. The current literature on this subject is limited and indicates rather large losses compared to field observations.A numerical model of the monopile–water–soil system was set up in the general-purpose finite element package Abaqus. By simulating the hammer impact and the resulting stress wave propagation through the monopile and water, the energy losses to be expected can be calculated accurately. The model was verified against independent finite element analyses and experimental data.A parametric study was performed and the effect of hammer characteristics, submerged monopile length and monopile geometry on the driving energy losses were quantified. The results enable a simple relationship between the energy losses and the monopile geometry to be proposed which increases linearly with pile diameter, taper angle, and submerged length. The losses are typically on the order of 0.15–0.3% per metre submerged length for large tapered monopiles.     

随机波作用下海床动态响应分析

真实的海洋波浪是随机的,而前人对海床的动态响应分析大都是选用线性波或者Stokes波理论,对海床的模拟大都采用Biot拟静力模型,忽略了流体速度及土体位移加速度的影响。联合使用Longuet-Higgins随机波模型(采用Jonswap谱)以及动力u-p形式的海床响应计算模型,使用COMSOL Multiphysics多场耦合软件的PDE模块输入方程进行有限元计算,得到随机波作用下整体海床动态响应结果。将随机波结果与一阶Stokes波和椭圆余弦波结果进行对比,并对渗透系数和饱和度进行参数分析,研究表明渗透系数和饱和度对于随机波作用下海床动态响应影响显著。     

海岛城镇空间扩展及景观生态演变研究 ——以舟山为例

本文以舟山本岛为研究对象,通过7景Landsat系列遥感影像,获取了1985-2015年7个时期内的5种地物信息。在此基础上,引入4个空间分析指标,分析了城镇扩展方位特征、城镇扩展强度及扩展速度特征、景观格局变化特征,并对影响城镇扩展的自然环境因素进行空间分析,对社会经济因素进行相关性分析。结果表明:(1)舟山本岛城镇扩展在空间方位上呈现"串珠状"的非典型蔓延特征,且在本岛第四象限扩展最显著;(2)城镇空间扩展可划分为三个阶段:城镇雏形阶段(1985-1995年)、城镇生长阶段(1995-2010年)及城镇成熟阶段(2010-2015年);(3)城镇雏形阶段,城镇"向中部绿心"扩展,岛陆森林面积减少了10.34 km2;城镇生长阶段,城镇"向海"扩展,25.10 km2周边海域经围垦转变为耕地及建设用地;城镇成熟阶段,城镇扩展"向海"与"向中部绿心"并存,对海岛生态系统陆海两侧均造成压力;(4)城镇空间扩展的空间指向主要位于海拔20 m以下,坡度10°以下的山谷、沿岸平原及围垦区。本岛人口数、房地产投入、GDP总量及路网总长等因素与城镇扩展相关性最显著。     

中国海岸带及近海多源数据空间组合和运行的基础研究

基于来自空间和常规的海岸带及近海多源信息,旨在满足国家空间数据基础建设和应用的迫切需求,在对诸多信息特征进行分析的基础上,建立了中国海岸带科学数据平台概念模型,并在此概念模型的基础上进行了具体的逻辑结构、遥感影像数据的ARCSDE存储、遥感数据的元数据存储等模型设计.同时阐述了多源数据空间组合的复杂技术及其关键意义,一俟由此实现海岸带及近海数据库建立和系统业务化运行,便可更加有效地为海岸带及近海调查、研究、开发应用和管理提供智能化信息分析的平台和技术服务.     

Spatial and temporal variations in acoustic propagation characteristics at the New England shelfbreak front

The spatial and temporal variability of the acoustic field in the region of a strong coastal shelfbreak front are examined, using the high-resolution environmental data from the 1996-1997 New England shelfbreak PRIMER experiment to provide input to acoustic propagation models. Specifically, the "SeaSoar" undulating conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) probe across-shelf transects provide 1-km along-track resolution, including the front, during the spring, summer, and winter seasons. These data allow one to study the diurnal and seasonal temporal variation of the acoustic field, as well as the varying spatial structure of the field. Using the RAM parabolic equation code, across-shelf acoustic field structure at 200, 400, and 1000 Hz is studied for various source depths. A number of interesting propagation effects are noted, the most interesting of which are the inhibition of strong acoustic-bottom interaction by the warm shelf water beneath the shelfbreak front and the existence of small-scale ducts near the front, due to offshore transport. Data from the vertical line arrays deployed as part of PRIMER offer partial validation of the predictions made. Specifically, it is seen that the mean received levels are in reasonable accord with propagation calculations made using locally measured bottom properties and the SeaSoar water-column measurements.     

Numerical analysis on random wave-induced porous seabed response

Research on the response of random wave on offshore structures has received great deal of attention of many researchers and engineers in the design of marine structures. Most previous investigations have been limited to the regular waves. In this paper, based on Longuet–Higgins random wave theory and finite element method, a numerical model for random wave-induced seabed response is established. The seabed is treated as poroelastic medium and characterized by Biot’s partly dynamic equations (u–p model). The JONSWAP spectrum is adopted in Longuet–Higgins model, which is based on the cumulative superposition of linear diffraction solution. Based on the numerical results, the effects of random wave on seabed response are investigated by comparing with the corresponding Stokes wave and cnoidal wave. Then, a parametric study is conducted to examine the effect of wave and soil characteristic on the seabed.     

砂土中四筒导管架风机基础抗弯承载力研究

针对一种四筒导管架海上风机基础,基于有限元数值分析,通过建立砂土中不同筒径和筒高的四筒导管架基础有限元模型,研究砂土中单调弯矩荷载的作用下,筒径与筒高对导管架基础抗弯承载力的影响。分析结果表明:四筒导管架风机基础的抗弯承载力随着筒高或筒径的增加呈明显的增长趋势,相比于筒径的增加,筒高的增加对提高基础抗弯承载力更为有效;在极限弯矩荷载的作用下,基础旋转中心水平向位置受筒高的影响较大,但竖向位置受筒高和筒径的影响很小。     

Boundary element modeling of multidirectional random waves in a harbor with partially reflecting boundaries

A numerical model is presented for the prediction of the wave field due to the diffraction of directional random waves in a harbor of arbitrary shape with partially reflecting boundaries. The water depth is assumed uniform and the method is based upon the superposition of diffraction solutions for monochromatic waves obtained by a two-dimensional boundary integral equation approach. The incident wave conditions are specified using a discrete form of the Mitsuyasu directional spectrum. The present numerical model has been validated through comparisons with previous experimental data and theoretical results for both regular and random wave diffraction by offshore breakwaters and in harbors. Good agreement was obtained in all cases. Based on these comparisons it is concluded that the present numerical model is an accurate and efficient tool to predict the wave field inside a harbor or around a breakwater in many practical applications.     

Construction and implementation of multisource spatial data management system of China’s coastal zone and offshore

1IntroductionThe21stcenturyisacenturyoftheocean,andallofusmustprepareforthecomingofthiscentury.Asoceanologicalresearchers,wehavemanythingstodotopromotethecon-structionandapplicationofdigitaloceaninna-tionalspatialdatainfrastructure,suchascoastalintegrateddatamanagement,intelli-gentinformationanalysisandsubjectinforma-tionextractionofoceanologicremotesensingdata,nationalandprovincialremotesensingin-formationservicesystemsofoceanology,e-cologicalandenvironmentalinformationser-vicesystemandsharin…     

波浪诱发松散海床渐进式液化的数值分析

近海区域广泛分布着第四纪新沉积的松散海洋土,波浪荷载作用下松散海床会发生液化进而对近海结构物的稳定性存在巨大威胁。本文采用中国科学院流体-结构-海床相互作用数值计算模型FSSI-CAS 2D,选用Pastor-Zienkiewicz-Mark Ⅲ（PZⅢ）弹塑性本构研究了波浪诱发的松散海床液化问题。分析了波浪荷载引起的松散海床内超孔隙水压力、有效应力以及应力角的时程变化特性,并预测了松散海床的渐进液化过程。计算结果表明,波浪荷载作用下松散海床内残余孔压会累积增长,海床表面最先发生液化,然后逐渐向下发展至液化最大深度。同时指出海床内超孔隙水压力的竖向分布特征和应力角的变化时程均可以作为判断海床液化的间接参数。最后,通过应力状态分析,讨论了海床渐进式液化的发展过程和趋势。     

基于海上风电场构建海洋水文同步实时现场观测系统的思考

海上风电是一种清洁的可再生能源。本文简述了海上风电发展概况, 并介绍了广东省在南海北部建设海上风电场的进展, 同时描述了南海北部一些典型的海洋水动力过程及其现场观测研究存在的难题; 最后提出利用海上风电场构建海洋水文现场同步实时网络系统的观点, 指出利用这些长期定点的网络式观测数据对研究海洋中小尺度动力过程等的优势。希望能为促进海上风电与海洋科学研究的融合发展提供参考。     

复合加载下桶形基础循环承载性能数值分析

作为一种新型基础形式,吸力式桶形基础除了承受海洋平台结构及自身重量等竖向荷载的长期作用之外,往往还遭受波浪等所产生的水平荷载及其力矩等其它荷载分量的瞬时或循环作用。对复合加载模式下软土地基中桶形基础及其结构的循环承载性能尚缺乏合理的分析与计算方法。应用Andersen等对重力式平台基础及地基所建议的分析方法,基于软黏土的循环强度概念,在大型通用有限元分析软件ABAQUS平台上,通过二次开发,将软土的循环强度与Mises屈服准则结合,针对吸力式桶形基础,基于拟静力分析建立了复合加载模式下循环承载性能的计算模型,并与复合加载作用下极限承载性能进行了对比。由此表明,与极限承载力相比,桶形基础的循环承载力显著降低。