Strain fields and mechanical response of a highly to medium fissured bentonite clay

This article presents the developments of an ongoing research aimed at modelling the influence of fissuring on the behaviour of clays. In particular, it recalls the main results of an extensive laboratory investigation on a fissured bentonite clay from the south of Italy and presents the data of a new investigation on the evolution with shearing of the strain fields developing within the clay, resulting from Digital Image Correlation (DIC). Element test results are analysed in the framework of continuum mechanics and linked to the clay fissuring features, once characterised using the Fissuring IDentity (F‐ID) chart. This article compares the bentonite behaviour with that of other fissured clays of different F‐IDs, highlighting the common behavioural features. Thereafter, the soil response at the macro level is related to the DIC‐derived strain fields evolving within the clay with loading. For this purpose, DIC was successfully used to investigate the deformation processes active in the fissured clay and the sources of the localisation phenomena. DIC is shown to provide indications of the extent to which highly to medium fissured clays element test results can be of use to model the clay behaviour according to continuum mechanics. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

体视化关键技术

体视化技术有着广泛的应用前景。对体视化的几种关键技术进行了分类综述，介绍了体数据的表示和分类，面绘制、体绘制和混合绘制各类典型算法的原理和特点。体数据的表示方式涉及到表示精度、存储量和处理时间之间的矛盾，要根据实际问题的具体特点和要求加以选择。体数据的分类是整个可视化算法中的一个关键步骤。只有对体数据进行准确的分类，才能经过处理得出合理的图像。近年来为加快绘制速度和提高图像质量提出了许多改进的体视化算法，并对部分改进算法进行了介绍。     

温度对赤潮异弯藻生长速率及细胞体积和生化组成影响的研究

在实验室条件下,研究了温度对赤潮异弯藻生长速率、细胞体积和生化组成的影响。结果表明,赤潮异弯藻在10~30℃之间均能正常生长,25℃时生长速率最高,25℃为其最适生长温度;赤潮异弯藻的细胞体积随着温度的升高大致呈逐渐减小的趋势,10℃时细胞体积最大(823.89μm3),25℃时细胞体积最小(387.98μm3)。进一步分析表明,赤潮异弯藻生长速率与细胞体积(对数值)呈显著的负相关关系(P0.05)。在10~25℃之间,赤潮异弯藻单个细胞的碳、氮含量随着温度的升高呈逐渐减少的趋势,其单位体积细胞的碳、氮含量却呈单峰变化(15℃时结果为峰值)现象;叶绿素a含量在单个细胞和单位体积细胞两个层次上随温度的变化趋势一致,即其在整个温度区间内随着温度的升高均呈逐渐增加的趋势。赤潮异弯藻细胞C∶Chl a和N∶Chl a随着温度的升高呈先减小后增加的趋势,均在10℃时最大,在25℃时最小。     

灌注桩后注浆单桩竖向极限承载力研究

近年来,后注浆技术得到了广泛的应用。钻孔灌注桩可大大降低建筑物的沉降,并使建筑物的沉降更加均匀,文章介绍后注浆工艺的承载力提高机理及在天津地区的几个工程实例,分析了注浆前后单桩竖向极限承载力对比情况及影响单桩竖向极限承载力的几个因素。     

基于不规则三角形网格和有限体积法的物理性流域水文模型

传统的栅格离散方式不能很好反映流域水文过程的边界特征,且难以实现流域水文过程的多尺度模拟.采用有限体积法构建了基于不规则三角形网格的物理性水文模型,将物理性描述的偏微分方程组在控制体积内积分得到空间半离散的常微分方程组,保证数值求解中的水量平衡,并可与概念性描述部分水文过程(如截留、填洼等)的常微分方程组更好地耦合;建立了数值求解方案,采用Triangle对计算区域进行离散,并在沁河上游流域进行了验证,结果表明模型具有较高的模拟精度和良好的应用前景.     

A practical co-simulation approach for multiscale analysis of geotechnical systems

The particulate nature of granular soils can be accurately simulated at a microscale level. However, due to the huge spatial extent of geotechnical systems, a model fully constructed at such a scale is almost impossible with current computing technologies. Hence, continuum-based approaches are considered as the practical scale for modeling the majority of problems. Combining both scales enables benefiting from the advantages of both techniques while trying to overcome their drawbacks. Although a significant number of publications have addressed coupling both scales, only a few provide information regarding implementing the proposed procedures. In this study, an efficient co-simulation framework for conducting multiscale analysis is introduced. The framework is based on integrating existing continuum and micromechanical modeling software packages and therefore benefitting from already existing codes. A computational simulation of a rigid pile in contact with granular soil demonstrating the capabilities of such technique is presented. The near-field zone surrounding the pile is modeled using DEM whereas FEM is utilized to model far-field zones that are not affected by the presence of the pile. Results of conducted simulations resemble those obtained from experimental results. The proposed approach appears to be a very effective and promising tool to model boundary value problems of geotechnical systems.     

Influences of overburden pressure and soil dilation on soil nail pull-out resistance

Soil nailing is the most popular technique for stabilizing newly formed and existing sub-standard slopes in Hong Kong because of its economic and technical advantages. The nail–soil interface shear resistance is an important parameter in design of soil nailed structures. A three-dimensional finite element model was established and used for simulating soil nail pull-out tests. The finite element model was verified by comparing simulated results with measured data. The agreement between the experimental and simulated results in terms of both average pull-out shear stress and stress variation was very good. Using this finite element model, a parametric study was carried out to study the influences of the overburden pressure and soil dilation angle on the soil nail pull-out resistance. The simulated peak pull-out resistance was not directly related to the overburden pressure, which was coincident with the observations in laboratory pull-out tests. The simulated pull-out resistance increased significantly with the increase in dilation angle of the shearing zone. This analysis indicated that the constrained dilatancy of the nail–soil interface and the soil surrounding the nail contributed a lot to the development of peak pull-out resistance.     

Investigating the effect of soil models on deformations caused by braced excavations through an inverse-analysis technique

In this study, a series of inverse-analysis numerical experiments was performed to investigate the effect of soil models on the deformations caused by excavation by using the finite element method. The nonlinear optimization technique that was incorporated into the finite element code was used for the inverse-analysis numerical experiments. Three soil models (the hyperbolic model, pseudo-plasticity model, and modified pseudo-plasticity model) were employed in the intended numerical experiments on a well-documented excavation case history. The results indicate that wall deflection due to excavation can be accurately back-figured by each of the three soil models, while the ground surface settlement can be reasonably optimized only by the pseudo-plasticity model and the modified pseudo-plasticity model. Importantly, the modified pseudo-plasticity model can yield more reasonable simulations when the wall deflection and the ground surface settlement are simultaneously back-figured. The results show that selection of an adequate soil model that is capable of adequately describing the stress–strain-strength characteristics of the soils is essentially crucial when predicting the excavation-induced ground response.     

Construction of three-phase data to model multiphase flow in porous media: Comparing an optimization approach to the finite element approach

Multiphase flow modelling is a major issue in the assessment of groundwater pollution. Three-phase flows are commonly governed by mathematical models that associate a pressure equation with two saturation equations. These equations involve a number of secondary variables that reflect the fluid behaviour in a porous medium. To improve the computational efficiency of multiphase flow simulators, several simplified reformulations of three-phase flow equations have been proposed. However, they require the construction of new secondary variables adapted to the reformulated flow equations. In this article, two different approaches are compared to quantify these variables. A numerical example is given for a typical fine sand.