脉冲地震动中竖向加速度对场地液化的影响

为研究近断层脉冲地震动中竖向加速度对砂土场地液化的影响,基于有限元平台OpenSees开发的边界面塑性本构模型,建立了动单剪单元试验模型和饱和砂土三维有限元模型。选取台湾Chi-Chi地震中10条具有速度脉冲特性的地震波,对比分析了水平双向脉冲波与三向脉冲波作用下土柱竖向位移、循环应力比、孔压比及等效循环周数的差异性,继而明确了脉冲地震动中竖向加速度对砂土液化的影响规律。研究表明,三向脉冲地震波中竖向加速度分量对场地永久位移值影响较小,但使永久位移的发展持时明显增大;土柱循环应力比受竖向地震动影响较小,因此分析脉冲地震动对场地剪切特性的影响时,可将三向脉冲地震动简化为水平双向地震动;考虑竖向地震动的三向脉冲地震波引起的孔压比变化幅度较大,孔压消散时间较长;三向脉冲地震波对应的等效循环周数较大,地震动发展持时长,可认为竖向加速度对场地液化有促进作用。     

一种新型动单剪仪的研发与试验验证

与动三轴仪和动扭剪仪相比较,动单剪仪具有加载条件更接近实际地震作用,且剪应力可以直接施加及剪应变可以直接量测等多方面的优点。然而,现有的动单剪仪仍存在剪应力-应变不均匀、边界条件不稳定、潜在剪切面和试样尺寸效应等技术问题。在比较分析现有动单剪仪加载机构和应力-应变条件的基础上,提出了一种新型立方体铰接机构动单剪仪的研制思路和加载原理。介绍了该仪器的压力室结构、加荷系统、量测系统和自动控制系统。利用有限差分程序模拟了3种不同单剪加载机构对土样剪应变分布的影响,验证了新型单剪仪设计使土样中剪应变分布更加均匀。针对2种原状黄土开展了一系列不同试验条件下的循环单剪试验。测试结果表明,该仪器的加载控制精准且量测信号可以较为真实有效地再现动荷载输入,且竖向应变、剪应变、剪应力和循环周次之间的关系曲线很好地揭示了原状黄土的震陷特性及其变化规律。     

多维地震荷载等效循环周数计算模型

地震波是一种多维的随机荷载,一般在参数测定中应将其转化为等效循环荷载。采用有限元模拟多向地震荷载作用下的砂土动力响应,介绍了弹塑性边界面模型及其参数的含义,阐述了确定参数的方法,选取涵盖大震、中震、近场、远场及不同土质条件的155组多向地震输入时程进行单向、多向加载。利用混合效应回归分析法,建立了多向地震荷载作用下等效循环周数计算模型,分析验证了该模型的准确性。提出了基于等效循环周数比的多维地震荷载作用下等效循环周数计算方法。研究表明：模型预测值能较好地反映等效循环周数实际值的变化趋势;震级和震中距对等效循环周数比影响不明显;砂土特性对等效循环周数比的影响具有主导作用, 在不同震级范围内,等效循环周数比均随着相对密度的增大而增大,对应于相对密度为45%、60%、80%、100%的砂土,等效循环周数比分别近似为1.60、1.85、1.90和2.05。     

主应力轴变化下非共轴对砂土剪胀特性影响

传统塑性剪胀模型在描述应力比和塑性应变增量关系时都是基于共轴塑性流动法则,从而认为土体的剪胀性仅与应力比有关。大量试验结果表明,在涉及主应力轴变化的复杂应力条件下塑性流动过程中应力-应变是非共轴的,因而在分析砂土剪胀特性时非共轴是不可忽视的因素。为了研究主应力轴变化的复杂应力条件下非共轴对砂土剪胀特性的影响,利用空心圆柱仪对饱和砂土进行了一系列定轴剪切试验、纯主应力轴旋转试验以及组合加载试验。试验结果表明,不同应力路径下应力-应变非共轴都会引起剪胀曲线偏离Rowe直线,通过Gutiereez提出的考虑非共轴因子的修正剪胀方程可以修正非共轴引起的偏差,从而使得Rowe剪胀方程适用于涉及主应力轴旋转等更加复杂的加载条件。     

砂土的物态本构模型

基于砂土的压缩回胀性、剪切非线性及剪缩剪胀性的系统分析和包括循环荷载、主应力轴旋转及应力路径偏转等复杂应力条件下的复杂变形反应,得到了三类应力-应变基本关系。在剪缩剪胀应力-应变关系中,引入了由偏应变分量确定的应变路径长度变量,揭示了应力主轴旋转、应力路径偏转引起的剪缩剪胀性。将这些基本关系与循环荷载下砂土的物态变化相联系,建立了砂土的物态动本构关系。     

上海软土场地三维非线性地震反应分析

考虑土的非线性,采用弹塑性边界面模型,对上海软土场地进行三维地震反应分析。利用多维地震动作用下的水平地层弹塑性动力反应分析程序,以具有水平和垂直三向完整加速度记录的Taft波作为地震输入,对比分析单向和多向地震输入场地水平和竖向地震反应特征,并分析不同强度地震动输入下竖向和水平加速度峰值比特征及地下水位变化对场地土层地震反应特征的影响。计算分析表明,竖向与水平向地震反应特征有较大差异;与水平单向地震输入相比,三向地震输入场地土层放大效应明显增大;地下水位上升对水平向和竖向峰值加速度的放大效应影响差异显著,地下水位上升,地表水平峰值加速度放大效应增大,竖向峰值加速度放大效应减小,研究结果对上海地区的工程抗震设计具有参考作用。     

一种大型循环单剪试验装置研究

循环单剪试验被认为是研究地震场地中土体动力特性最合适的方法。为减小尺寸效应影响及解决工程中广泛存在的加筋土及粗颗粒土动力特性测试问题,研究大尺寸循环单剪试验方法具有重要意义。基于此,介绍了一种大型循环单剪试验装置,采用竖向线性滑动轨道约束上加载板和采用水平滑动轨道约束下加载板,确保前者仅发生竖向平动,后者仅发生水平平动,采用层叠的、带层间橡胶膜、分离式4点支撑的钢筋环构成的柔性剪切箱为试验提供侧向边界约束,确保了对单剪土样加载边界条件的真实模拟。针对土工格室加筋橡胶砂的测试结果表明：大型循环单剪试验装置得到的土动应力-动应变关系较好地反映了土在循环荷载作用下的滞回性、非线性和棘轮特性,大型循环单剪试验装置得到的 - 和 - 曲线变化规律与常规尺寸试验基本一致,证明其具有可行性;大尺寸试验得到的动剪模量特性与常规尺寸试验之间的差异,与单剪试验尺寸效应结论相符;试验中阻尼比特性受尺寸效应影响的规律性不明显。     

水平向与竖向地震动的时间遇合模式对边坡动力安全系数的影响

通过沿滑面的应力积分法和动力时程分析法,研究了水平向、竖向地震动单独作用对边坡动安全系数的影响,发现竖向地震动与水平向地震动一样也对边坡抗震稳定性有显著的影响。在此基础之上,重点探讨了实际地震的双向地震动同时作用时,其时间遇合模式对动力安全系数的影响,结果表明,常用的加速度峰值遇合模式和随机遇合模式都不能充分体现出竖向地震动与水平向地震动的叠加效应,进而造成对安全系数的高估;文中提出的最大地震作用效应遇合模式才是最危险的遇合模式,其所得稳定性安全系数时程的极值更小。在考虑多向地震的边坡抗震分析中,由于多维地震动的强烈随机性,应考虑出现这种最大地震作用效应遇合的可能性,以得到工程设计中偏于安全的动力稳定性安全系数值。     

关于盐城市地震效应问题探讨

对比分析了<建筑抗震设计规范>(GB 50011-2010)与<建筑抗震设计规范>(GB 50011-2001)中涉及场地勘察相关条文的规定,指出其相关条文的修改对盐城市区场地类别的划分、地震动参数的确定、砂土液化的判别、软土震陷的评价等方面产生的影响,以及今后在勘察中需注意的一些问题,并提出了相关建议.     

动扭剪试验中砂土液化后流动特性分析

土体在初始液化后仍然可能承受动荷载作用发生大变形。引入流体力学中的剪应变率和表观黏度的概念,对振动扭剪试验中饱和砂土液化后的流动特性进行了分析。分析中将砂土的状态分为0有效应力状态和非0有效应力状态。结果表明,砂土在0有效应力状态下表现出与静扭剪试验类似的“剪切稀化”非牛顿流体的特征,表观黏度随着剪应变率的增大而减小。加载周数对“剪切稀化”状态下的剪应变率幅值有影响,随着加载周数的增加,剪应变率幅值逐渐增大,而对流动曲线的形状没有影响。在非0有效应力状态下,砂土的表观黏度随应变的增大而增大,随孔压比的减小而增大,且所有的试验得到的表观黏度与孔压比具有一致关系。     

Modeling of the simple shear deformation of sand: effects of principal stress rotation

The paper presents a simple constitutive model for the behavior of sands during monotonic simple shear loading. The model is developed specifically to account for the effects of principal stress rotation on the simple shear response of sands. The main feature of the model is the incorporation of two important effects of principal stress on stress–strain response: anisotropy and non-coaxiality. In particular, an anisotropic failure criterion, cross-anisotropic elasticity, and a plastic flow rule and a stress–dilatancy relationship that incorporate the effects of non-coaxiality are adopted in the model. Simulations of published experimental results from direct simple shear and hollow cylindrical torsional simple shear tests on sands show the satisfactory performance of the model. It is envisioned that the model can be valuable in modeling in situ simple shear response of sands and in interpreting simple shear test results.     

Pore pressure generation in silty sands during cyclic loading

Recent developments in studies of soil response to earthquake loadings have made it possible to incorporate the rates of pore water pressure build-up in soils in to nonlinear response analyses of the grounds. Such pore pressure changes help in computing the changes in stress-strain behaviour of soils in the deposit progressively as the earthquake progresses. The rate and magnitude of pore pressure generation in soils during seismic loading will have important effects on the shear strength, stability, and settlement characteristics of a soil mass, even if the soil does not liquefy. The results in terms of pore pressure response in soils from a series of experimental investigations using strain-controlled cyclic triaxial tests on soils samples collected from liquefied sites are presented in this paper. The effect of relative density, amplitude of cyclic shear strain, number of loading cycles, confining pressure and frequency of cyclic loading on the pore pressure build-up are studied. Analytical expressions are proposed using regression analysis to define mean relationships between normalized pore water pressure and normalized cycles for the prediction of pore water pressure build-up in silty sands. Also, the pore water pressure build-up in soils is independent of frequency of loading.     

Constitutive model for cyclic behaviour of cohesionless sands

This paper presents a constitutive model for describing the stress-strain response of sands under cyclic loading. The model, formulated using the critical state theory within the bounding surface plasticity framework, is an upgraded version of an existing model developed for monotonic behaviour of cohesionless sands. With modification of the hardening law, plastic volumetric strain increment and unloading plastic modulus, the original model was modified to simulate cyclic loading. The proposed model was validated against triaxial cyclic loading tests for Fuji River sand, Toyoura sand and Nigata sand. Comparison between the measured and predicted results suggests that the proposed modified model can capture the main features of cohesionless sands under drained and undrained cyclic loading.     

An alternative mechanism for the earthquake-induced displacement of the Lower San Fernando Dam

The 1971 San Fernando earthquake led to the failure and large displacement of the Lower San Fernando Dam (LSFD) that was constructed by the hydraulic filling method. As such, hydraulic filling has been recognised as producing liquefiable sand deposits, while in situ relative densities as large as 60% have been reported in the LSFD. On the other hand, laboratory element tests on loosest pluviated (through air or water, resembling the soil fabric produced by hydraulic filling) specimens of primarily quartz sands have been dilative, questioning the failure mechanism of the LSFD. In this paper, the LSFD during the 1971 San Fernando earthquake is studied using the results of improved sliding block deformation analyses that incorporate shearing behaviour of two sands with different mineralogies (quartz sand and albite sand with some carbonates) from ring shear tests. The results indicate that sand particle composition and compressibility in the LSFD may have caused its failure and very large deformations even at a dense state (relative density ～60%).     

Laboratory Investigation into the Effects of Silty Fines on Liquefaction Susceptibility of Chlef (Algeria) Sandy Soils

In a number of recent case studies, the liquefaction of silty sands has been reported. To investigate the undrained shear and deformation behaviour of Chlef sand–silt mixtures, a series of monotonic and stress-controlled cyclic triaxial tests were conducted on sand encountered at the site. The aim of this laboratory investigation is to study the influence of silt contents, expressed by means of the equivalent void ratio on undrained residual shear strength of loose, medium dense and dense sand–silt mixtures under monotonic loading and liquefaction potential under cyclic loading. After an earthquake event, the prediction of the post-liquefaction strength is becoming a challenging task in order to ensure the stability of different types of earth structures. Thus, the choice of the appropriate undrained residual shear strength of silty sandy soils that are prone to liquefaction to be used in engineering practice design should be established. To achieve this, a series of undrained triaxial tests were conducted on reconstituted saturated silty sand samples with different fines contents ranging from 0 to 40 %. In all tests, the confining pressure was held constant at 100 kPa. From the experimental results obtained, it is clear that the global void ratio cannot be used as a state parameter and may not characterize the actual behaviour of the soil as well. The equivalent void ratio expressing the fine particles participation in soil strength is then introduced. A linear relationship between the undrained shear residual shear strength and the equivalent void ratio has been obtained for the studied range of the fines contents. Cyclic test results confirm that the increase in the equivalent void ratio and the fines content accelerates the liquefaction phenomenon for the studied stress ratio and the liquefaction resistance decreases with the increase in either the equivalent void ratio or the loading amplitude level. These cyclic tests results confirm the obtained monotonic tests results.     

The use of shredded waste tires to improve the geotechnical engineering properties of sands

A new geo-environmental approach was proposed to use waste tires in certain engineering applications and thereby reduce the potential impact on the environment. This paper presents a laboratory study on the effect of shredded tires on the physical properties of some sands. Shredded tires were passed through US sieve size 4 and mixed with three different types of sands with varying gradations. Each type of sand was mixed with four different percentages of shredded tires: 10, 20, 30 and 40% by dry weight. Direct shear tests were conducted to study the effect of the shredded tires on the shear strength properties of sands, such as angle of internal friction and shear strength. The addition of shredded waste tires increased both the angle of internal friction and the shear strength of the sands. Additionally, a prediction model was developed to calculate the shear strength of sand due to increasing shredded tire content. The shredded tires improved some engineering properties of sand.     

砂土多机构边界面塑性模型及其试验验证

根据Iai多重剪切机构塑性模型及边界面塑性模型的特点,建立了一个砂土多机构边界面塑性模型。该模型将土复杂的变形机理分解为体积机理和一系列简单的剪切机理。用边界面弹塑性模型模拟多重剪切机构塑性模型中虚拟单剪机构,避免了Iai多重剪切机构塑性模型在利用修正Masing准则模拟虚拟单剪应力-应变关系时确定比例参数的复杂性。根据大量试验资料,建立了液化面参数与归一累积剪切功的关系,能够用较少的参数很好地建立有效应力路径。由于多重机理的特性,该模型能够模拟复杂荷载作用下主应力轴偏转的影响。试验结果表明,应用该模型的计算结果与试验结果有较好的一致性。     

循环荷载作用下软土的孔压模式和强度特征

通过循环三轴剪切试验,研究原状软土的变形和孔压发展规律。建议了一个循环荷载作用下孔隙水压力的发展模式。研究了不排水循环荷载作用下软土的动强度以及作用后饱和软土静强度的衰减特征,讨论了周围固结压力和荷载作用频率对动强度的影响。研究表明,在某一轴向应变条件下,循环次数随循环剪应力比的增加而迅速减小;随循环剪切应力比的增大,饱和软土的静强度有一定衰减。