Modelling the behaviour of an embankment on soft clay with different constitutive models

The paper investigates the effect of constitutive models on the predicted response of a simplified benchmark problem, an embankment on soft soil. The soft soil is assumed to have the properties of POKO clay from Finland and five different constitutive models are used to model the deposit. Two of the models are isotropic models, i.e. the Modified Cam Clay model and the Soft‐Soil model. The other models are recently proposed constitutive models that account for plastic anisotropy. The S‐CLAY1 and S‐CLAY1S models are embedded in a standard elasto‐plastic framework and account for anisotropy via a rotational hardening law. In addition, the S‐CLAY1S model accounts for bonding and destructuration. In contrast, the Multilaminate Model for Clay (MMC) accounts for plastic anisotropy by utilizing so‐called multilaminate framework. The results of numerical simulations show that accounting for anisotropy results in notable differences in the predicted settlements and horizontal movements compared to the predictions using the isotropic models. There are also significant differences in the K₀ predictions by the different constitutive models and this has a significant impact on the results. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

振冲法处理淤泥土体的研究

18层住宅楼建在天然地基中的含淤泥土层上, 地基采用振冲法处理。通过对各楼不同层位处的载荷试验和主体施工中的沉降观测得出: 较厚淤泥层上的高层建筑地基采用振冲法处理可以取得经济可靠的效果; 加大振冲器功率可使基础沉降效果明显减小; 振冲桩复合地基中附加应力扩散现象随软土层上部相对硬层强度增加而增加, 但以上部土层厚度影响为主; 对于筏板基础, 载荷试验曲线初段受深度影响不能真实反映复合地基的压缩性。     

海相沉积软土动强度与孔压特性试验研究

以宁波轨道交通1号线②、③和④层海相沉积软土为对象,进行GDS单向振动三轴试验,研究了不同动应力幅值和频率作用下软土的动强度与孔压特性。结果表明：相同动应力状态下,等向固结时的强度要比K0固结时的强度大;在相同动应力幅值条件下,频率越高,强度越高;动应力越大,试样强度越大,发生硬化现象。随着振动次数的增加,孔隙水压力也不断增大,仅③层粉质黏土夹砂层在应力幅值为5 kPa时孔压有稳定趋势。最后,通过对动三轴试验数据进行拟合,得到了模型参数,其结果可以用来预测循环荷载作用下土体的累计孔压。     

A destructuration theory and its application to SANICLAY model

Many natural clays have an undisturbed shear strength in excess of the remoulded strength. Destructuration modeling provides a means to account for such sensitivity in a constitutive model. This paper extends the SANICLAY model to include destructuration. Two distinct types of destructuration are considered: isotropic and frictional. The former is a concept already presented in relation to other models and in essence constitutes a mechanism of isotropic softening of the yield surface with destructuration. The latter refers to the reduction of the critical stress ratio reflecting the effect of destructuration on the friction angle, and is believed to be a novel proposition. Both the types depend on a measure of destructuration rate expressed in terms of combined plastic volumetric and deviatoric strain rates. The SANICLAY model itself is generalized from its previous form by additional dependence of the yield surface on the third isotropic stress invariant. Such a generalization allows to obtain as particular cases simplified model versions of lower complexity including one with a single surface and associative flow rule, by simply setting accordingly parameters of the generalized version. A detailed calibration procedure of the relatively few model constants is presented, and the performance of three versions of the model, in descending order of complexity, is validated by comparison of simulations to various data for oedometric consolidation followed by triaxial undrained compression and extension tests on two structured clays. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

试论连云港海相软土路堤沉降规律

根据连云港至徐州高速公路连云港段60多个断面的现场实测沉降资料,分析了在路堤荷载作用下连云港海相软土的沉降和固结规律。实测数据表明,在路堤荷载作用下连云港海相软土地基的沉降曲线符合双曲线形式,故可采用双曲线法预测最终沉降。由此可以分析在不同施工期的地基沉降和固结特性,得到不同地基处理条件下路堤填筑期和预压期地基平均固结度与施工时间的关系。分析亦表明,粉喷桩加固能加速地基的固结速率。最后,针对沉降和固结理论计算中计算参数的难以合理确定的局限性,对现场实测沉降数据采用数理统计方法,提出了适用于连云港地区海相软土路堤沉降和固结估算经验公式。     

海陆交互相下粘性土的性状研究

长江口北侧海陆交互相沉积粘性土具有粘粒与粉粒交替形成的互层层理结构特征及粉粒含量高的粒度成分特征。且表现出物理性质指标与力学性质指标互不吻合的工程特性。运用多元统计理论中主成分分析原理,分析了海陆交互相沉积粘性土常规物理性质指标反映其工程特性的能力。研究结果表明：将亚砂土隶属于粘性土范畴是不科学的,同时运用液性指数判别其物理稠度状态及推断其工程特性的方法存在不尽合理之处。     

珠海海积软土剪切带微观结构试验研究

天然软土剪切带性状分析一直是岩土力学界的一个研究重点。采用电镜扫描和压汞法对珠海海积软土剪切带内外以及带边缘微观结构进行定量分析,研究结果表明：珠海软土的应力-应变曲线在低围压下表现出明显应变软化特征;软土在剪切破坏后,剪切带内的微观参数变化率最大,其次是剪切带边缘,最后是剪切带外;剪切带边缘上的颗粒逐渐沿着剪切应力的方向呈定向排列,而剪切带内,由于颗粒发生破碎、折断,颗粒排列是随机的,在剪切带外,颗粒的排列受剪切破坏的影响较小;珠海海积软土的孔隙入口孔径分布为主单峰分布,其主峰峰值的位置是沿着剪切带外--带边缘--剪切带内转移;Roscoe理论和Arthur经验公式预测的剪切带倾角与实测值相比都偏小,不适宜黏性土的剪切带倾角预测计算;Mohr-Coulomb理论计算出的倾角与实测值比较一致。     

Field measurements of shear strength of an underconsolidated marine clay

This paper presents the observations of cone penetration testing (CPT), in situ vane shear testing and undrained triaxial testing of underconsolidated marine clay in the Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area (CIDMMA), Norfolk, VA. Comparison of vane shear measurements, taken during 1981–1983, to CPT measurements, taken during 1993, indicates a change in undrained shear strength. Both the vane shear and cone penetration resistances are lowest at the mid-heights of the clay layers and the excess pore water pressures are highest at the mid-height of the clay layers, indicating that the clay layer is underconsolidated.     

水泥土桩加固海洋土的渐进变形破坏试验与数值分析

应用一个高度非线性的三维各向异性粘弹塑性(EVP)模型及有限元法,对一水泥土桩(CDM)加固海洋土的复合地基进行数值模拟。海洋软粘土的渐进变形采用粘弹塑性模型来模拟,水泥土桩破坏前后的应力-应变关系采用一个双曲线模型来模拟,提出了一个简单且非常实用的数值分析方法来解决水泥土桩碎裂软化的数值模拟问题。将数值模拟结果与实测数据进行了比较,二者吻合较好。     

海积软土前期固结压力与结构强度的关系及成因分析

通过对不同地区海积软土的大量试验，对原状土样和重塑土样的压缩曲线确定了海积软土前期固结压力和结构强度，并研究了海积软土前期固结压力及结构强度的关系。由于考虑了土的结构强度，对结构性土根据超固结比(OCR)对土的压密状态的判断与实际结果更加相符。为了定量地反映海积软土的结构强弱，首次引入反映海积软土结构性及其对扰动敏感程度的结构稳定系数，反映了海积软土结构性的稳定程度。初步分析了海积软土结构强度的成因。     

珠江口海洋软土不排水抗剪强度及循环弱化特性试验研究

为了获得广东珠江口海洋软土的不排水抗剪强度,分别开展了不固结不排水剪切和固结不排水剪切三轴试验、无侧限抗压试验、现场取土离心机正常固结模型地基的T-bar静力贯入试验以及现场十字板剪切试验和静力触探试验（CPT）,并采用土力学经验公式进行计算,确定了珠江口海洋软土不排水抗剪强度沿深度的分布规律,并综合评价了各种方法的有效性。为了获得该区域软土的循环弱化规律,分别开展了循环动三轴试验、现场取土离心机正常固结模型地基的T-bar循环贯入试验和现场单桩水平循环加载试验,揭示了软土循环动模量比与循环次数之间的双对数线性关系,获得了3种试验条件下珠江口海洋软土的循环弱化因子。其研究结果可为该区域海洋建筑物设计提供直接依据,也可为其他类型工程提供借鉴。     

冲击荷载作用下海积软土的动力释水规律研究

通过真三轴试验,研究冲击荷载作用下海积软土的孔隙水压力、轴向变形等动力响应特征。利用热失重法和理论计算法,分析试验前后软土中结合水含量。研究表明,冲击荷载作用前后含水率变幅为15.6%～23.5%,结合水含量变幅为17.6%～29.4%,体积增大系数为2.1%～9.5%,冲击荷载作用下饱和软土的排水固结作用明显;试验前后软土中结合水含量变化较大,冲击荷载作用下软土的动力释水不同于静力作用下的释水规律;影响软土动力释水的主要因素有初始含水率、结合水含量、孔隙比、土的状态、动荷载大小和加载方式等。最后,总结出冲击荷载作用下海积软土动力释水规律和对工程设计的启示,该研究可为动力排水固结法的设计提供参考。     

Multiscale modeling of ice deformation behavior

Understanding the flow of ice in glaciers and polar ice sheets is of increasing relevance in a time of potentially significant climate change. The flow of ice has hitherto received relatively little attention from the structural geological community. This paper aims to provide an overview of methods and results of ice deformation modeling from the single crystal to the polycrystal scale, and beyond to the scale of polar ice sheets. All through these scales, various models have been developed to understand, describe and predict the processes that operate during deformation of ice, with the aim to correctly represent ice rheology and self-induced anisotropy. Most of the modeling tools presented in this paper originate from the material science community, and are currently used and further developed for other materials and environments. We will show that this community has deeply integrated ice as a very useful “model” material to develop and validate approaches in conditions of a highly anisotropic behavior. This review, by no means exhaustive, aims at providing an overview of methods at different scales and levels of complexity.     

考虑饱和黏土初始各向异性的循环边界面塑性模型

天然土体的初始各向异性通常可对其后继循环特性产生显著影响。现有考虑循环载荷作用的土体弹塑性模型,往往采用类似修正剑桥模型的椭圆形屈服面,已有研究表明,该椭圆形屈服面因其拉伸弹性区域偏大,针对天然K0固结状态的土体,其计算精度较差。基于新近提出的广义各向同性硬化准则,在边界面方程中引入初始各向异性张量,并采用空间滑动面破坏准则（SMP）的变换应力法,建立了能考虑饱和黏土初始各向异性的循环边界面塑性模型。分别针对等压和偏压固结的饱和黏土静、动三轴试验进行模拟,结果表明,该模型能合理反映土体的初始各向异性及其后继循环动力特性。     

基于细观分析的黏土本构模型

根据黏性土在固结排水条件下的加、卸载变形特征,分析了孔隙水,固体骨架在不同变形阶段的力学响应行为,按照细观力学分析中的自洽方法,建立了在固结排水条件下的黏土损伤本构模型。模型中考虑了孔隙水和固体骨架在加、卸载阶段的不同特性,认为在损伤阶段整体剪切模量的降低是由固体骨架颗粒接触面滑移而引起,与骨架中滑动相的体积百分比和滑动相的剪切模量有关,并给出了求解整体变形模量的解析方法,最后将模型预测与不同初始固结压力,不同应力路径的排水试验结果作了比较,证明该模型是合理的。     

SANICLAY: simple anisotropic clay plasticity model

SANICLAY is a new simple anisotropic clay plasticity model that builds on a modification of an earlier model with an associated flow rule, in order to include simulations of softening response under undrained compression following K_o consolidation. Non‐associativity is introduced by adopting a yield surface different than the plastic potential surface. Besides, the isotropic hardening of the yield surface both surfaces evolve according to a combined distortional and rotational hardening rule, simulating the evolving anisotropy. Although built on the general premises of critical state soil mechanics, the model induces a critical state line in the void ratio–mean effective stress space, which is a function of anisotropy. To ease interpretation, the model formulation is presented firstly in the triaxial stress space and subsequently, its multiaxial generalization is developed systematically, in a form appropriate for implementation in numerical codes. The SANICLAY is shown to provide successful simulation of both undrained and drained rate‐independent behaviour of normally consolidated sensitive clays, and to a satisfactory degree of accuracy of overconsolidated clays. The new model requires merely three constants more than those of the modified Cam clay model, all of which are easily calibrated from well‐established laboratory tests following a meticulously presented procedure. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

海洋粘土矿物与颗石藻Emiliania huxleyi共培养的实验研究

颗石藻是海洋中广泛分布的超微型浮游藻,经生物矿化作用形成的碳酸钙质颗石,在古海洋学研究中具有重要意义。海洋粘土矿物与有机质的有机-无机相互作用在全球碳循环中扮演着重要角色。本文选取广泛分布于海洋的赫氏颗石藻Emiliania huxleyi与海洋粘土矿物中具有代表性的伊利石和蒙脱石共培养。通过对颗石藻生长曲线和Sr/Ca、Mg/Ca元素比值、颗石藻与粘土矿物样品的紫外可见光吸收光谱、红外吸收光谱和矿物物相等分析,研究海洋粘土矿物与颗石藻的相互作用规律。通过研究表明伊利石对颗石藻的影响较小,蒙脱石因对营养元素的吸附和颗石藻的絮凝作用对颗石藻的生长和Sr/Ca、Mg/Ca元素比值影响较大。颗石藻代谢分泌的生物分子未能通过层间插层作用进入伊利石层间,颗石藻分泌的生物分子可通过插层作用进入并储存于蒙脱石层间,海洋粘土矿物中的蒙脱石与海洋微生物的相互作用值得地球微生物家关注,可能有助于对古海洋环境的认识。     

NGI‐ADP: Anisotropic shear strength model for clay

Many geotechnical problems involve undrained behavior of clay and the capacity in undrained loading. Most constitutive models used today are effective stress based and only indirectly obtain values for the undrained shear strength. To match the design profiles of undrained shear strengths, in active (A), direct simple shear (D) and passive (P) modes of loading are complicated. This paper presents the elastoplastic constitutive model NGI‐ADP which is based on the undrained shear strength approach with direct input of shear strengths. Consequently, exact match with design undrained shear strengths profiles is obtained and the well‐known anisotropy of undrained shear strength and stiffness is accounted for in the constitutive model. A non‐linear stress path‐dependent hardening relationship is used, defined from direct input of failure strains in the three directions of shearing represented by triaxial compression, direct simple shear and triaxial extension. With its clear input parameters the model has significant advantages for design analysis of undrained problems. The constitutive model is implemented, into finite element codes, with an implicit integration scheme. Its performance is demonstrated by a finite element analysis of a bearing capacity problem. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stress–dilatancy behavior for sand under loading and unloading conditions

Experimental results have shown very different stress–dilatancy behavior for sand under loading and unloading conditions. Experimental results have also shown significant effects of inherent anisotropy. In this article, a micromechanics‐based method is presented, by which the stress–dilatancy relation is obtained through the consideration of slips at the interparticle contacts in all orientations. The method also accounts for the effect of inherent anisotropy in sand. Experimental results on Toyoura sand and Hostun sand are used for illustration of the proposed method. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.