Three-dimensional active earth pressure from cohesive backfills with tensile strength cutoff

Most of previous analyses on the active earth pressure were performed in two-dimensional cases using the Mohr-Coulomb (M-C) failure function to describe the soil strength. However, all failures of retained slopes indicate a somewhat three-dimensional (3D) feature, and the M-C function is found to overestimate the tensile strength of cohesive soil. In this work, a kinematic limit analysis–based approach is developed for computing the 3D active earth pressure resulting from cohesive backfills. The concept of tensile strength cutoff is adopted to implement the reduction or elimination of tensile strength from the strength envelope. An extended 3D horn failure mechanism that is associated with the modified strength envelope is developed to characterize the collapse of retained slopes. The resultant of active earth pressure is evaluated from the work rate balance equation and expressed as an unfactored coefficient. The obtained results indicate that less support provided by the wall is required when allowing the existence of soil cohesion and 3D effects and that eliminating the tensile strength can observably increase the active earth pressure, especially for the backfill with a great level of cohesion.     

Analytical solutions for the earth pressure of narrow cohesive backfill with retaining walls rotating about the top

Currently, knowledge of the failure mechanisms of narrow backfills with retaining walls rotating about the top (RT mode) is still lacking which leads to inaccurate estimations of the earth pressure. Numerical simulations using finite element limit analysis find that under the effects of backfill geometries, interface strengths, and soil properties, the upper soil layer supported by soil arching retains its integrity and the lower soil layer is sheared by multiple curved sliding surfaces in the limit state. Based on the failure mechanisms of narrow backfills, a calculation model is established which considers the soil arching effect, curved sliding surface, and cohesive soils. Analytical solutions for the earth pressure of narrow cohesive backfills with retaining walls rotating about the top are derived by using the limit equilibrium horizontal slice method. Compared with previous studies, the present method predicts the earth pressure distribution with higher accuracy. Several extensive parametric studies have also been conducted. Thus, decreasing the aspect ratio of backfills, increasing the inclined angle of natural slopes, interface strengths, and soil cohesion are beneficial for maintaining backfill integrity and reducing earth pressure against retaining walls.

     

考虑抗拉强度的黏性填土挡土墙主动土压力计算

挡土墙后黏性土处于主动土压力状态时,墙顶一定深度范围内会产生裂缝,使其较大范围形成零压力区即开裂深度,关于开裂深度问题一直没有得到很好解决。针对变分法求解黏性填土主动土压力中未考虑裂缝的情况,通过一个算例说明了黏性填土表面在主动土压力状态下会产生裂缝。采用折线简化摩尔?库仑强度包络线,利用实际的土体抗拉强度推导了墙背土体开裂深度的计算公式。根据滑裂面上端点的应力边界状态和几何边界条件,对土压力变分计算方法进行了改进,使主动土压力的不确定问题变成了确定性问题。分析了填土内摩擦角、黏聚力、抗拉强度对开裂深度的影响,结果表明,随着内摩擦角和内聚力的增大,土体开裂深度逐渐增加,滑裂面向墙背方法偏移,土压力减小;随着土体抗拉强度的增加,开裂深度逐渐减小,土压力减小,当抗拉强度大到足以抵抗土体的开裂破坏,墙后土体开裂深度为0,这时土压力不再受抗拉强度的影响。     

放坡状态有限土体刚性挡土墙主动土压力研究

针对现有有限土体刚性挡土墙主动土压力研究大都集中于临近建筑物墙体或地下室外墙的狭窄土体,相邻基坑、路堤与切坡挡土墙形成放坡状态有限土体研究甚少,本文考虑填土黏聚力及墙土间黏结力、墙土间摩擦作用、墙背倾角及填土顶面竖向荷载等的影响,利用刚体极限平衡理论进行研究。根据相邻基坑与边坡挡土墙放坡状有限土体的工程特性,分析挡土墙平动位移模式下平面滑动破裂面的形成特征,建立放坡状态有限土体主动土压力计算模型,并利用数值计算方法可以求解。通过对放坡状有限土体主动土压力进行算例分析与参数分析,表明极限破裂角与宽高比、黏聚力、墙背倾角及墙土间外摩擦角为负相关,不同黏聚力下随着宽高比增大,极限破裂角趋近于考虑黏聚力作用库伦方法得到的极限破裂角值,不同黏聚力下有限土体宽度临界值亦是变化的;主动土压力随黏聚力、墙背倾角及墙土外摩擦角增大而减小,随着宽高比增大而增大并逐步趋近于库伦方法计算的土压力值。最后,通过模型试验验证表明按本文方法计算的极限破裂角与实测破裂角吻合,PIV系统测试得到的临界宽高比与库伦方法的结果一致。     

3D stability of unsaturated soil slopes with tension cracks under steady infiltrations

Most classical approaches for evaluating the stability of soil slopes with cracks are performed under two-dimensional (2D) condition. Three-dimensional (3D) effect and suction-induced effect of unsaturated soils are generally neglected in assessing the slope stability. This paper develops a 3D limit analysis method to evaluate the stability of an unsaturated soil slope with tension cracks under steady infiltrations. The boundary-value problem is formulated based on the 3D rotational failure mechanism by taking the effects of suction, effective unit weight, and tension crack into account. A simplified method is proposed to calculate the work rate of unsaturated soil weight. A layer-wise summation method is developed based on the divergence theorem to calculate the internal energy dissipation rate. Detailed discussions are conducted to investigate the effects of suction and Poisson's ratio on the stability of unsaturated soil slopes. Examples are given to illustrate the 3D effect, the suction-induced effect as well as the effects of infiltration and water in cracks on the slope stability.     

条形荷载下黏性土主动土压力计算

依据库仑土压力理论假设,挡土墙土压力由墙后填土在极限平衡状态下出现滑动楔体产生,推导出考虑滑裂面上填土的黏聚力、墙土间黏聚力、黏性土表面出现张拉裂缝、条形荷载下的黏性土主动土压力计算式,并给出临界破裂角的显式解答。当墙后作用有连续均布荷载或不考虑黏性填土表面出现裂缝时,只需取条形荷载到墙顶的距离或计算的裂缝深度为0即可按相同的方法求解。研究表明,由于未考虑条形荷载对临界破裂角的影响,规范方法得到土压力值偏小。该公式适用范围广,尤其对于条形荷载作用墙后任意位置时均可应用,对实际工程中挡土墙的设计计算具有一定应用价值。     

Analytical analysis of working face passive stability during shield tunneling in frictional soils

This paper develops the 2D and 3D kinematically admissible mechanisms for analyzing the passive face stability during shield tunneling using upper-bound analysis. The mechanisms consider trapezoidal distribution of support pressure along tunnel face and partial failure originated at tunnel face above invert. For cohesionless soils, the support pressure is a function of soil effective frictional angle φ′ which determines the inclination of failure block and the normalized soil cover depth C/D (soil cover depth/tunnel diameter) which affects the origination of the passive failure. For cohesive soils, the support pressure is a function of φ′, C/D, and the effective cohesion c′. The cohesion c′ has a relatively smaller impact on the support pressure than φ′ and C/D have. The mechanisms are verified by comparing the current solutions with a previous upper-bound solution. The comparison shows that the current solutions are a general solution which is capable of predicting the passive face failure originated at any depth along tunnel face and the previous solution is a particular solution with the assumption that the face failure originated at tunnel invert. The mechanisms are validated through application to a practical project of shallowly buried, large diameter underwater tunnel. The validation shows that the mechanisms are capable of assessing the tunnel face passive instability rationally.

     

基于圆弧主应力迹线的黏性土主动土压力分析

墙背粗糙导致墙后土体应力方向发生偏转,目前,黏性土中考虑土体应力方向偏转对土压力影响的研究较少。为此,本文首先在探讨墙后土体主应力偏转规律的基础上,采用沿主应力迹线分层形成曲线薄层单元。然后,通过分析曲线薄层单元的受力情况,建立曲线薄层单元的静力平衡方程,推导出平动模式下黏性土体土压力沿墙高分布的公式,进而获得黏性土土压力分析新方法。最后,将本文方法与实测结果和现有理论进行对比验证和参数分析,验证本文方法的可靠性和合理性。研究结果表明:考虑墙土摩擦效应的计算结果更能准确反映黏性土体土压力沿墙高的分布规律;土压力大小随黏聚力增大而减小;随着墙土摩擦角的增大,土压力合力逐渐减小,作用点高度缓慢升高。     

黏性土的非极限主动土压力计算方法研究

经典土压力理论只能计算挡土墙位移达到极限状态时的土压力。为了更贴近工程实际,需要发展非极性土压力理论,但以往的研究仅限于砂土。对于黏性土的非极限主动土压力,在已有成果的基础上,从黏性土的应力莫尔圆出发,推导了介于初始状态和极限主动状态之间的中间状态时,黏性土的内摩擦角? 随墙体位移变化的关系公式;同时考虑了墙土接触面上外摩擦角? 和黏聚力cw的影响,根据黏性土应力莫尔圆的几何关系得到了土体黏聚力c与墙体位移的关系;最后应用水平分层法求得了非极限状态时黏性土的主动土压力计算公式。与模型试验数据的对比分析表明,理论计算值和试验实测值基本吻合。研究表明,计算方法对于计算黏性土在非极限状态时的主动土压力具有一定的理论意义,在实际工程中也具有相应的实用价值。     

地震条件下挡墙后黏性土主动土压力研究

采用水平层分析法,得到了地震条件下挡墙后黏性土主动土压力合力和作用点位置、土压力强度分布以及临界破裂角的解析解。公式考虑了水平和垂直地震加速度、挡墙墙背倾角、填料黏聚力和内摩擦角、填料与墙背的黏结力和外摩擦角、均布超载等因素,并分析了这些因素对主动土压力的影响。结果表明,朗肯和库伦理论下的主动土压力公式以及Mononobe-Okabe主动土压力公式与地震条件下的主动土压力公式完全一致。地震条件下的主动土压力强度沿墙高呈非线性分布。水平地震加速度增大了主动土压力,垂直地震加速度使得主动土压力有所减小     

地震条件下黏性土挡土墙土压力分析

Mononobe-Okabe理论是现阶段计算地震土压力的常用方法,但Mononobe-Okabe理论的诸多假设使其具有一定的局限性。针对Mononobe-Okabe理论的不足,考虑到地震作用下挡土墙偏转对土压力的影响,采用斜向条分法推导了复杂条件下黏性土地震土压力强度分布、土压力合力及其作用点位置公式,并利用图解法给出了临界破裂角的解析解。研究表明：填土黏聚力和地震系数对土压力影响显著;忽略黏性填土表面开裂与地震作用对均布超载及开裂填土等效超载的影响将使主动土压力计算结果偏小,其误差随着填土黏聚力和均布超载的增大而增大;在不同水平地震系数下土压力沿墙高呈非线性分布;所提公式适用范围更广,有效完善了Mononobe-Okabe理论。     

黏性土填料下考虑土拱效应的非极限主动土压力计算方法

不论挡土墙填料采用砂性土,还是黏性土,其墙背主动土压力与墙体倾角和位移关系存在较大的联系,因而研究黏性土填料下的非极限主动土压力计算理论具有重要意义。通过应力状态分析给出了非极限状态下考虑土拱效应的侧向主动土压力系数,然后采用水平微分层析法给出了倾斜墙下非极限主动土压力解析解。通过与室内模拟试验及已有理论进行对比,验证了该方法的合理性。最后研究了相关参数包括位移比?,墙土摩擦角与内摩擦角之比? /?,墙体倾角?,黏聚力c等对主动土压力分布及其作用点高度的影响。结果表明：土体由静止状态向极限主动土压力状态发展时,土拱效应的影响会越来越大。随着? /?的不断增大,土压力分布曲线非线性强度会不断增强,土压力合力作用点高度呈上升趋势,并且? /?对土压力的影响会随着位移比? 的增大而增大。随着挡土墙墙背倾斜角度? 的不断增大,土拱效应对非极限主动土压力的影响减小。随着土体填料黏聚力的不断增大,上部张拉裂缝高度也会随之增加,且土压力合力作用点越低。给出的考虑土拱效应的非极限主动土压力计算方法对于丰富挡土墙土压力计算理论具有重要意义。     

Estimation of static earth pressures for a sloping cohesive backfill using extended Rankine theory with a composite log-spiral failure surface

The Rankine earth pressure theory is extended herein to an inclined c–? backfill. An analytical approach is then proposed to compute the static passive and active lateral earth pressures for a sloping cohesive backfill retained by a vertical wall, with the presence of wall–soil interface adhesion. The proposed method is based on a limit equilibrium analysis coupled with the method of slices wherein the assumed profile of the backfill failure surface is a composite of log-spiral and linear segments. The geometry of the failure surface is determined using the stress states of the soil at the two boundaries of the mobilized soil mass. The resultant lateral earth thrust, the point of application, and the induced moment on the wall are computed considering global and local equilibrium of forces and moments. Results of the proposed approach are compared with those predicted by a number of analytical models currently adopted in the design practice for various combinations of soil’s frictional angles, wall–soil interface frictional angles, inclined angles of backfill and soil cohesions. The predicted results are also verified against those obtained from finite element analyses for several scenarios under the passive condition. It is found that the magnitude of earth thrust increases with the backfill inclination angle under both the passive and active conditions.

     

加筋土边坡的破坏形式

了解加筋土边坡的破坏形式有助于加筋土边坡的设计和施工监测。对不同形式的加筋土边坡进行离心模型试验,绘制了边坡的破坏形式。试验结果表明:加筋土边坡能够保持较好的整体性,一般不会像未加筋边坡那样突然坍塌; 坡面附近土体内部可能先于坡顶产生裂缝,因此在实际工程中观察到显著的坡顶裂缝后,应当意识到在坡面附近的坡体内部也可能产生了裂缝。一般情况下筋材模量越大加筋效果越好,但在筋材和土接触面强度一定的情况下,筋材模量增大到一定程度后继续增大筋材模量是没有太大意义的。     

地震条件下挡土墙主动土压力及其分布的新分析法

采用旋转挡土墙计算模型的变换法,将在地震和拟静力法条件下主动土压力的求解问题转化为在静力条件下主动土压力的求解问题。根据在静力条件下水平层分析法的主动土压力推导结果,直接获得在地震条件下主动土压力强度分布、土压力合力及其作用点位置的表达式,并运用图解法得到了临界破裂角的解析解。公式可考虑水平和垂直地震加速度、不同墙背倾角、墙背和坡面倾角与填料存在黏结力和外摩擦角、存在均布超载等诸多因素的影响,公式可以适用于在常用边界和地震条件下黏性土的主动土压力计算。旋转地震角法是将在地震和拟静力法条件下挡土墙计算模型旋转为在静力条件下挡土墙计算模型,但旋转挡土墙计算模型并不改变挡土墙和墙后填土的应力状态,按在静力条件下挡土墙主动土压力求解方法求解在地震和拟静力法条件下主动土压力,该方法大大简化了在地震和拟静力法条件下的主动土压力计算公式推导过程,统一了在拟静力法条件下的地震土压力求解,理论更加完善。     

Upper bound analysis of tunnel face stability in layered soils

The working face of tunnel constructions has to be kept stable during tunneling to prevent large soil deformations or fatal failure. In layered soils with lower cohesion, failures happen more often and more abrupt than in cohesive soils. Therefore, the maintenance of a proper support pressure at the tunnel working face is of high importance. In this paper, an upper bound analysis is introduced to investigate the minimum support pressure for the face stability in layered soils. A three-dimensional kinematically admissible mechanism for the upper bound analysis is improved to model potential failure within different soil layers. An analytical solution for the support pressure assessment is achieved. The influence of the crossing and cover soil on the face stability is analyzed, respectively. This solution provides an analytical estimation of the minimum support pressure for the face stability. It may be used as a reference for projects under similar conditions.     

Geotechnical Facets of Active Sediments and its Bearing on Natural Hazards and Mitigation Measures: An Approach on Sediments of the Nubra Valley (Ladakh), Trans-Himalaya,India

Slope stability has been identified as a major obstacle to construction in the rapidly developing countries of Indonesia and Malaysia. In these countries, slope failure has been identified as one of the most commonly occurring natural disasters, leading to financial losses and deaths. Slope failure is often related to prolonged rainfall events where rainfall infiltration increases pore water pressure, reducing soil strength. This failure mechanism will accelerate with the existence of cracks, which are usually caused by differential settling, drying and shrinking of soil, and associated construction activities, among other causes. The existence of cracks on slopes usually provides an easy pathway for rainfall infiltration into soil, allowing rain to infiltrate to deeper layers than in the absence of cracks. The moisture content in deep layers is therefore higher in cracked slopes than in slopes without cracks. To address this issue, we investigated the effects of cracks on slope stability when subjected to rainfall. The influence of crack location, depth, size, and direction on pore water pressure distribution and slope stability was studied by imposing different rainfall intensities. Analysis of seepage and stability were conducted using the GEO STUDIO 2007 softwares SEEP/W and SLOPE/W. Results suggested that pore water pressure and slope stability were influenced by the existence of cracks. Analysis showed that slope factors of safety decreased sharply when cracks were located adjacent to the slope crest, as compared to when cracks were located in the middle of the slope. Furthermore, slope factors of safety decreased with increasing crack depth. Pore water pressure and slope factors of safety decreased further when slopes were subjected to small rainfall intensities for long periods, as compared to when slopes were subjected to high rainfall intensities for short periods. The present study shows that study of cracks should be an integral part of the slope stability analysis.     

非均质土体中盾构隧道开挖面支护力上限分析

基于对数螺旋破坏模式,考虑黏土的非均质特征,采用极限分析上限法推导了盾构隧道掌子面支护力计算公式,通过优化计算得到了不同条件下的最优上限解。采用该破坏模式与已有的模型试验、工程实例进行对比,验证了在非均质土中采用双对数螺旋极限分析上限法的适用性;同时详细分析了在土体不同参数条件下,隧道掌子面支护力、滑动面范围的变化趋势以及工程影响,结果显示在非均质土中,掌子面支护效率的主导因素是初始黏聚力与掌子面超前核心土,最后通过归一化处理得到了非均质土中极限支护力的设计推荐图,可为工程中初步确定盾构隧道掌子面支护压力提供理论依据。     

不同地质条件下隧道洞口仰坡地震破坏特性研究

针对洞口段均质围岩仰坡、含软弱夹层仰坡和桁架梁加固仰坡围岩3种工况,开展大型振动台模型试验,分析隧道洞口段仰坡模型土破坏形态。试验结果表明,均质边坡洞口段模型土在动力作用下坡肩土体先出现张拉裂缝,随着激振加速度增加,坡肩土体局部出现倾倒崩塌,最后沿坡面滑落堆积;含软弱夹层边坡在地震力作用下,仰坡坡脚部位土体挤压破碎,坡顶表面沿软弱夹层位置出现张拉裂缝,上覆土体沿软弱夹层滑动,最后土体大规模崩塌、滑落;洞口段加固边坡在动力作用下基本保持整体稳定,只部分梁格出现了局部的掉块,模型土顶部出现沿隧道轴向的细微裂缝。分析了隧道洞口段衬砌结构破坏形态,试验结果表明均质边坡洞口段AB两段衬砌模型裂缝分布较CD段复杂,认为洞口段地震影响深度为AB两段衬砌的长度,对应于实际工程中40 m;受软弱夹层影响,跨软弱夹层部衬砌模型裂缝形态较复杂;仰坡加固后,洞口段衬砌模型受力改善。研究结果可为山岭隧道洞口段边坡抗减震研究和设计提供参考。     

压实黏土的脆性断裂模型及有限元算法

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