坡度对海底斜坡瞬态波浪响应及其滑动失稳特征影响研究

波浪作用下海底斜坡滑动稳定性分析中,一般未考虑海底坡度引起的波浪浅水效应,即不考虑波浪在斜坡面上的变形导致的波压力变化,降低了其计算结果的可靠性。本文基于沿斜坡面传播的线性波浪理论,考虑波浪的浅水效应,利用波浪与重力作用下海底斜坡的有效应力场,计算海底斜坡滑动稳定性安全系数。在验证海底斜坡滑动稳定性计算结果可靠性的基础上,分析了坡度对海底斜坡瞬态波浪响应及其滑动失稳特征的影响。结果表明,由于波浪沿斜坡面传播的浅水效应,相对于水平海床,波浪作用下斜坡最大瞬态应力和孔隙水压力随着坡度的增加基本呈线性增加趋势,最大水平位移呈非线性增加趋势;相比于坡底水平段海床的滑动区,斜坡面上滑动区的深度和水平方向滑动范围均有所增加,且坡度越大,这种效应越显著;相比于饱和海床,非饱和条件下,坡度对斜坡体滑动特征的影响程度有所降低。     

重力式网箱数值模拟时波浪理论选择

针对重力式网箱数值模拟中波浪理论选择问题进行了专门的分析与讨论。在数值模型中分别采用线性波浪理论和斯托克斯五阶波浪理论,对重力式网箱的主要部件浮架系统和网衣系统进行模拟。通过将模拟结果与试验结果比较分析选取两种不同波浪理论对模拟结果的影响。分析结果认为在相对水深大于0.18情况下,应用线性波浪理论基本可以准确地模拟重力式网箱波浪作用下的运动和受力。     

舟山群岛海域波浪对泥沙冲淤过程的影响

本文基于SWEM(Shallow Water Equation Model)三维水沙盐模式,考虑潮汐、径流、风场和波浪影响,在长江口与杭州湾及其邻近海域建立了一个高分辨的三维水沙盐模型。分析了一般天气条件下,舟山群岛海域在潮汐、径流、风场、波浪共同作用下的地形冲淤与悬沙含量分布特征,并对比分析了一般天气条件下与台风天气条件下波浪对泥沙冲淤过程的影响。一般天气条件下,舟山群岛海域东西向水道为冲刷特征,舟山群岛东侧海域以及舟山群岛内部南北向水道为淤积特征。舟山群岛海域暖半年冲刷增强,冷半年淤积增强。海域悬沙含量由西北向东南迅速降低,群岛“虑沙”效果明显。悬沙含量3月份最大,8月份最小。波浪对舟山群岛海域泥沙冲淤过程的总体影响在秋冬季较强,春夏季较弱。一般天气条件下与台风天气条件下,波浪对研究海域泥沙冲淤过程影响显著的区域均为朱家尖东侧海域,且波浪的影响特征均表现为促进淤积和增加悬沙含量。一般天气条件下波浪引起最大淤积约占总淤积量的10%。台风天气条件下波浪引起的淤积量约是同时段一般天气条件下的6倍。     

离散单元法与港口和海岸工程中的非连续介质问题

离散单元法是一种用来分析非连续介质的位移,受力和稳定性问题的数值分析方法,已在岩石力学领域中得到了广泛的应用。在港口和海岸工程中,存在许多堆石体结构的非连续介质问题,如重力式码头后方抛石体的土压力问题,在波浪荷载作用的下堆石防坡浪,护岸,基床的稳定性问题等。     

规则波作用下透空格栅板式防波堤波浪力试验研究

透空格栅板式防波堤是一种新型防波堤结构,为了促进该结构在实际工程中的应用,论文通过模型试验研究其所受波浪点压力和波浪总力的特征。试验结果表明,在规则波作用下,下层水平格栅板所受波浪点压力较上层水平格栅板大,且防波堤中前端波浪点压力分布不规律;相对板宽B/L对该防波堤所受波浪总力的影响较大,相对板间距S/h对其整体稳定性的影响次之,而相对波高H/h主要影响该防波堤的垂向受力;此外,当上层水平格栅板与静水面齐平且孔隙率相对较大时,该防波堤所受波浪总力最小,对其整体稳定性最有利。     

极限波浪作用下半潜平台运动响应时域数值模拟

针对一座工作水深为500 m的半潜式海洋平台,运用时域耦合分析方法,计算其在极限波浪作用下的运动响应。通过比较平台在两种不同形式极限波浪(即畸形波和"三姐妹"波)作用下的运动响应,分析两种不同形式的极限波浪对平台运动的影响。同时通过分析畸形波的参数对平台运动幅值的影响,确定平台运动响应对畸形波参数的敏感性。分析结果表明:极限波浪在聚焦点处波高最大,当平台恰好位于聚焦点时,对平台来说最危险;畸形波的波峰值是影响平台运动的最主要参数,在平台初期设计中要考虑工作海域中极限波浪可能达到的最大值;在波峰值相同的条件下,平台运动的最大值随着畸形波的谱峰周期和有义波高的增加而增加。     

波浪周期对防波堤护面块体稳定性影响的试验分析

波浪对斜坡堤护面结构的冲刷破坏作用受诸多因素的影响,如波浪要素、水深条件、坡面角度、护面块体型式等。在进行某项有关斜坡堤护面块体的课题研究中发现,当防波堤断面结构确定后,护面人工块体的稳定性主要取决于波高及波周期的变化。在进行这方面内容设计计算中,通常波高的取值都能给予足够的重视,但波周期对护面块体稳定性的影响容易被忽视。本研究通过物理模型试验,针对波浪周期对斜坡堤护面块体稳定性的影响进行了总结分析,为防波堤设计提供参考。     

山东半岛海岸地貌与波浪、潮汐特征的关系

本文通过山东半岛海岸地貌类型与沿岸波浪、潮汐发生学关系的对比分析,引入浪潮作用指数 K,K=2.5×(H/R),H 为平均波高,R 为平均潮差.K>1时,海岸地貌演变的动力以波浪作用为主,海岸极少发育潮汐叉道和落潮三角洲,但连岛坝发育较好;K<1时,海岸地貌演变的水动力以潮汐作用为主,落潮三角洲、潮汐叉道较发育;K 值接近于1时,发育潟湖等过渡海岸地貌类型.     

波浪作用下孤立砂球稳定性条件研究

波浪作用下大块石稳定性条件的研究,不仅是泥沙运动力学急待发展的内容之一,也是抛石工程合理化设计的重要问题。在收集大量国内外有关研究资料的基础上,分析了在波浪作用下大块石的受力状况,得出当大块石处于失稳临界状态时,其所受失稳应力与其自身有效容重和其当量直径乘积的比值是雷诺数、斯特鲁哈尔数及块石水下休止角的函数。为排除块石形状和块石间相互支撑形式不规则等干扰因素的影响,采用固定钢圈支撑孤立水泥砂球,在波浪槽中进行试验研究。根据试验资料,在斯特鲁哈尔数大于10的条件下,验证了当沙粒雷诺数达到105以后Shields曲线出现跳跃的事实。     

极端波浪条件下深水导管架基础结构波浪总力试验研究

波浪力对海上风电深水导管架基础结构的稳定性和安全性至关重要。通过波浪物理模型试验对极端波浪条件下深水导管架基础结构的波浪总力进行了试验研究,试验水深包括50 m和70 m两种,在1 000 a一遇波浪条件下,分别分析了深水导管架结构所受的波浪总水平力和垂直力。研究结果表明：相同重现期极端波浪作用下,70 m水深情况下的导管架结构波浪总水平力小于50 m水深的结果,但是70 m水深的导管架结构波浪总水平力弯矩大于50 m水深的结果;相同水深、水位和波浪条件下,导管架结构受到的波浪总垂直力明显小于波浪总水平力;在相同重现期极端波浪作用下,低水位情况时70 m水深的导管架结构波浪总垂直力与50 m水深的结果差别不大,但是在高水位时,由于在70 m水深的极端波浪条件下波峰可冲击作用到上部平台底面,70 m水深的导管架结构波浪总垂直力明显大于50 m水深的结果。     

Effect of Groundwater Fluctuations on Pore Pressures and Earth Pressures on Coastal Excavation Retaining Walls

Pore water and earth pressures acting on retaining structures are investigated using an efficient coastal double-layered excavation model to determine offshore excavation responses to groundwater fluctuations outside foundation pits. Total pore water pressure includes excess pore water pressure (due to groundwater fluctuations) and steady pore water pressure (due to steady seepage) determined using one-dimensional consolidation theory of double-layered soil and one-dimensional steady-state flow theory, respectively. Rankine's active and passive earth pressures are obtained from pore water pressure. This method is applicable to arbitrary groundwater fluctuation conditions. How physical parameters affect pore water pressure is numerically investigated using examples, demonstrating the method's practicality for calculating pore water and earth pressures.     

Stability of seawalls using modified pseudo-dynamic method under earthquake conditions

By using the modified pseudo-dynamic method for submerged soils this paper explores the seismic stability of seawall for the active condition of earth pressure. Different forces such as seismic active earth pressure, seismic inertia forces of the wall, non-breaking wave pressure, hydrostatic and hydrodynamic pressures are considered in the stability analysis. Limit equilibrium has been used, and expressions for the factor of safety against sliding and overturning mode of failure have been proposed. The proposed methodology overcomes the limitations of existing pseudo-dynamic method for submerged soils. A detailed parametric study has been conducted by varying different parameters and results are presented in the form of design charts for computation of factor of safety against sliding and overturning mode of failures. It was noticed that the influences of soil friction angle, seismic acceleration coefficient, wall inclination and excess pore pressure are significant when compared to the other parameters. The value of factor of safety against the sliding mode of failure is increasing by about 62% when the value of soil frictional angle is increased from 30° to 40°. It was also found that the factor of safety against overturning mode of failure is decreasing by about 22% as the value of excess pore pressure ratio increases from 0 to 0.75. The proposed method with closed-form solutions can be used for the seismic design of seawalls.     

Stability of waterfront retaining wall subjected to pseudo-static earthquake forces

Waterfront retaining walls supporting dry backfill are subjected to hydrostatic pressure on upstream face and earth pressure on the downstream face. Under seismic conditions, if such a wall retains a submerged backfill, additional hydrodynamic pressures are generated. This paper pertains to a study in which the effect of earthquakes along with the hydrodynamic pressure including inertial forces on such a retaining wall is observed. The hydrodynamic pressure is calculated using Westergaard's approach, while the earth pressure is calculated using Mononobe-Okabe's pseudo-static analysis. It is observed that when the horizontal seismic acceleration coefficient is increased from 0 to 0.2, there is a 57% decrease in the factor of safety of the retaining wall in sliding mode. For investigating the effect of different parameters, a parametric study is also done. It is observed that if φ is increased from 30° to 35°, there is an increase in the factor of safety in the sliding mode by 20.4%. Similar observations were made for other parameters as well. Comparison of results obtained from the present approach with [Ebeling, R.M., Morrison Jr, E.E., 1992. The seismic design of waterfront retaining structures. US Army Technical Report ITL-92-11. Washington DC] reveal that the factor of safety for static condition (k_h=0), calculated by both the approaches, is 1.60 while for an earthquake with k_h=0.2, they differ by 22.5% due to the consideration of wall inertia in the present study.     

A Method for Analyzing the Self-Supported Earth-Retaining Structure Using Stabilizing Piles

The self-supported earth-retaining structure using stabilizing piles (SSR is used from here) has the advantages of less deformation and less internal force compared with conventional cantilever retaining structure. It is easier to conduct the excavation when SSR is used for an excavation instead of using braced excavation with struts. The SSR is better than other methods to the 10 m shallow excavation depth in terms of economical and constructional efficiency when the ground is not very soft. However, this SSR method lacks a theoretical basis in terms of geotechnical engineering. The objective of this study is to develop a method of analysis by laboratory model tests. A variety of model tests were performed in order to analyze the behavior of SSR and the ground, and to measure the stress acting on stabilizing piles relative to excavation steps and earth pressures on the wall. The analysis reveals the failure mechanism of a wedge and then suggests a method for calculating a virtual supported point. These findings were incorporated into a method for analyzing retaining wall, stabilizing piles, and beams connecting two structures. Future research is geared toward developing a design program that uses the analytical methodology for this SSR.     

Analysis of Dynamic Stability of Ocean Gravity Structure Foundations

Based on unified equivalent harmonic loading on seabed foundation and energy approach suggested by the authors, the development of dynamic pore water pressure and stability of soil foundation for the vibration of ocean gravity structures excited by random wave loading are analysed. It may be seen that the present method for the study of dynamic problems of ocean gravity structure soil foundations is more reasonable and convenient.     

Seismic Stability of Gravity Retaining Structures by Pseudo-Dynamic Method

An analytical expression of a gravity retaining wall's seismic stability against sliding and overturning is proposed in this article. The derivation, aiming at the cohesionless soil with inclined backfill surface and nonvertical wall back, is based on limit equilibrium analysis and the pseudo-dynamic method. The variations of the sliding and overturning stability safe factors with the horizontal seismic acceleration are investigated for different seismic amplification factors, soil friction angles, wall friction angles, vertical seismic acceleration coefficients, wall back inclination angles, and backfill surface inclination angles. The results indicate that the soil friction and horizontal seismic action significantly impact the seismic stability. The increase of vertical earthquake action changes the curvature of stability factor curves. The wall friction and back inclination strengthen the gravity retaining wall's resistance to sliding and overturning failure while the backfill surface inclination plays a negative role in the seismic stability. We also found that the seismic stability safe factors calculated by the proposed method are larger but more reasonable than those by the Mononobe-Okabe method.     

波浪作用下粉土海床中的孔压响应试验研究

海床在波浪作用下是否稳定对海底工程的安全至关重要,海床的稳定性与土体中的孔压响应密切相关。水槽模拟试验表明:在波浪的作用下,黄河三角洲粉土海床中将产生振荡孔隙水压力和累积孔隙水压力。振荡孔隙水压力大小与土层深度、波高和粘粒含量有关,其振幅(能量)在土层中随深度的增加呈指数衰减,且粘粒含量越高衰减越快;加载波高越大,能量衰减越快。而累积孔压响应模式表现为在波浪作用最初的一段时间内,孔隙水压力快速上升,然后逐渐减小而趋于稳定,其大小和速率也与波高、粘粒含量、土层埋深有关,粘粒含量越高,孔压累积速度越低。     

Pore pressure loads on gravity structures

It is common practice to compute wave-induced loads on the immersed surface of gravity structures exposed to the wave motion and disregard the pore-water pressure variation on the foundation surface. However, when the soil is porous, wave-induced pressures propagate within the soil under the structure and result in a rather significant contribution to overall loads. This paper describes a practical method for numerical modeling of the pore pressure under a gravity platform foundation for compressible water and a rigid, but porous soil. The porous soil may be bounded by an impermeable horizontal layer at some arbitrary depth.

The paper outlines the basic boundary element procedure for pore pressure analysis and presents numerical results for a typical gravity structure as well as results for comparison with an existing analytical solution for a vertical circular cylinder.     

An Approach to Stability Analysis of Embedded Large-Diameter Cylinder Quay

The large-diameter cylinder structure, which is made of large successive bottomless cylinders placed on foundation bed or partly driven into soil, is a recently developed retaining structure in China. It can be used in port, coastal and off-shore works. The method for stability analysis of the large-diameter cylinder structure, especially for stability analysis of the embedded large-diameter cylinder structure, is an important issue. In this paper, an idea is presented that is, em-bedded large-diameter cylinder quays can be divided into two types, i.e. the gravity wall type and the cylinder pile wall type. A method for stability analysis of the large-diameter cylinder quay of the cylinder pile wall type is developed and a method for stability analysis of the large-diameter cylinder quay of the gravity wall type is also proposed. The effect of sig-nificant parameters on the stability of the large-diameter cylinder quay of the cylinder pile wall type is investigated through numerical calculation.     

Experimental investigation of three-dimensional earth pressure according to aspect ratio of retaining wall

The purpose of this study is to investigate the scale and load distribution of three-dimensional active earth pressure and the load transferred to the adjacent soil by changing the aspect ratio of a retaining wall through a series of model tests. In this research, 42 earth pressure plates of different heights and widths were installed to evaluate the earth pressures by considering the wall aspect ratio and the change of earth pressure. The test results showed that the active earth pressures were uniformly converged when the percentage of limit displacement against wall height was 0.12%. The distribution of active earth pressure on the wall showed a parabola shape for most aspect ratios while the wedge shape identified by the model test was similar to the shell-shaped model. In this paper, two diagrams were proposed regarding the active earth pressure according to the aspect ratio of a retaining wall; (1) a diagram of earth pressure conversion against the aspect ratio based on evaluated three-dimensional active earth pressures with traditional two-dimensional earth pressures, (2) a load transfer diagram based on the horizontal distance by analyzing the horizontal and vertical load transfer ranges with the relevant increasing rates.