降雨入渗条件下粗粒土路堤暂态饱和区发展规律及稳定性研究

为了分析降雨入渗条件下粗粒土路堤暂态饱和区发展规律及稳定性,结合工程实际及气象资料,通过拟定不同的降雨计算方案,采用饱和-非饱和渗流理论对粗粒土路堤边坡在不同降雨条件下雨水入渗过程进行数值模拟.研究结果表明:降雨过程中路堤边坡表面会形成一定范围的暂态饱和区,暂态饱和区的形成及发展过程与降雨强度及降雨时间密切相关;降雨入渗仅会引起路堤边坡坡面以下水位线的大幅上升,对路堤中部地下水位线影响较小;降雨停止后,路堤上部暂态饱和区迅速消散,而路堤中下部暂态饱和区消散过程则表现出明显的滞后特征,但总体而言暂态饱和区的面积呈下降趋势;降雨入渗将导致入渗区域内基质吸力的丧失与含水率的增加,是造成路堤边坡稳定性降低的主要因素,路堤的失稳形式表现为整体滑移与表面局部坍塌相结合.     

灰关联神经网络法及防洪堤边坡稳定性分析

灰关联分析神经网络方法首先是对防洪堤边坡稳定性影响因素进行灰关联分析,得出各因素影响程度的大小排序,然后建立该工程的神经网络模型,选择灰关联分析得到的优势因子作为样本输入以及关联度作为网络权值确定的一个因素,利用大量南宁市防洪堤边坡工程实例对网络进行训练学习,最后用训练成功的网络对工程进行预测。预测的结果与实际情况进行对比表明,这个方法能够满足南宁市防洪堤边坡稳定性预测的要求。     

Characteristics of thawed interlayer and its effect on settlement beneath embankment in permafrost regions—A case study for the Qinghai-Tibet Highway

Based on ground temperatures and deformations monitored at the Xieshuihe site along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway(QTH)in permafrost regions from 2004 to 2015,variation of artificial permafrost table(APT),maximum frozen depth(MFD),thawed interlayer thickness(TIT)and ground temperature beneath embankment is analyzed,respectively.The results indicate that under the embankment,the change of APT occurred from October to December of that year and presented a deepening trend.The change of MFD occurred from April to June of that year with no obvious change trend,and TIT had an increasing trend year by year,which mainly resulted from the deepening artificial permafrost table.Mean annual ground temperature at 0.5 m depth was 3.91°C higher beneath the embankment center than that under the natural field.The rising ground temperature at shallow layer of embankment resulted in the development of thawed interlayer beneath the embankment and warming of underlying permafrost.Embankment settlement is closely associated with TIT.Greater settlement easily occurs when permafrost with higher ice content exists under the thawed interlayer,and in turn the settlement is smaller when permafrost with lower ice content exists under the thawed interlayer.     

Numerical analysis on the thermal regimes of thermosyphon embankment in snowy permafrost area

Snow covers the road embankments in winter in high latitude permafrost zones. The effect of snow cover on embankments was simulated based on field measurements of boundary conditions and initial ground temperature profile in Mohe, China. The effect of thermosyphons on the embankment warmed by snow cover was evaluated by numerical simulations as well. The results indicate that the difference of thermal regimes between non-thermosyphon and thermosyphon embankments reaches to 22 m in depth below the ground surface. It is much warmer in the non-thermosyphon embankment body in winter. Affected by the snow cover, heat flux gradually spreads into the deep ground of the subgrade over time. The permafrost table under the slope toe of a thermosyphon embankment is 1.2 m higher than that of a non-thermosyphon embankment in the 20th year. In addition, the permafrost table at the slope toe of a thermosyphon embankment is 26 cm deeper over 20 years. These results indicate that thermosyphons can greatly weaken the warm effect of snow cover. However, thermosyphons cannot avoid the degradation of permafrost under the scenarios of snow cover. Therefore, composite measures need to be adopted to keep embankment stability in snowy permafrost zones.     

Performance of reinforced,DMM column-supported embankment considering reinforcement viscosity and subsoil’s decreasing hydraulic conductivity

It has been widely accepted that reinforcement made of polyethylene and polypropylene is susceptible to creep and soil’s hydraulic conductivity varies with its void ratio. However, unfortunately there is no available sensitivity analysis on time-dependent embankment behaviour taking either reinforcement viscosity or time varying hydraulic conductivity of subsoil into consideration. The influence of geosynthetic reinforcement viscosity and decreasing hydraulic conductivity with consolidation on the time-dependent performance of embankments with floating columns is investigated using a fully 3D coupled model. For an embankment at the working height corresponding to a post-consolidation polypropylene geotextile strain of about 5%, it is shown that the assumption of constant hydraulic conductivity and the failure to consider the viscous behaviour of geosynthetic reinforcement can underestimate time-dependent embankment deformations (including differential crest settlement and horizontal toe movement). The effects of factors including the foundation soil, reinforcement stiffness, column stiffness, column spacing, column type (floating and fully penetrating), and construction rate, on the time-dependent behaviour of column supported embankments are explored.     

The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity

The embanking of the Thames was an emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering the river as a concrete framing of nature between the embankment walls and a representational framing of the natural within an engineering ideology. The legitimacy of embanking's control was, therefore, about both physical mechanisms and a particular discourse of the natural, but the Thames embankments did not merely reflect modernity's discourse - they actively helped mould it. The creation of a discourse of embanking was slow and hesitant, the product of the interplay between the subsidiary discourses of urban improvement and sanitarianism, and an opposing discourse of tradition. When built, the embankments acted as a fixed, ordered boundary between the cultured nature of the drained, commodified land, and the regulated liveliness of the river. They acted literally and figuratively to sever culture from a nature that was enclosed and tamed by embankment walls.     

Elastic settlements under linear surface pressures on rectangular areas

This paper presents the practical closed‐form solutions for elastic settlement under the linear full‐contact pressures on rectangular areas resting upon an elastic mass. The linear pressure distribution is mostly assumed in practice for the rectangular footing having biaxial bending. The equations presented here are determined by evaluating the integration of Steinbrenner's strain approximation based on the stress solutions from the Boussinesq equations. The presented formulae are validated to be used for the elastic settlement under any point of linear full‐contact loading, triangular and embankment types of pressure cases. In this respect, it represents a significant step forward in the understanding of elastic settlement and rotation under the practical loading cases. The presented solutions are concise and easy to use. The numerical examples are demonstrated and the resulting influence factors in graphical forms are presented for their practical use especially in the elastic settlement calculations of rectangular footing subjected to the biaxial bending. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

共和-玉树高速公路多格茸段冻胀丘与公路路基的相互影响

冻胀丘是土层中水分向冻结锋面大量迁移集聚,并且冻结膨胀使地面隆起呈丘状的一类冰缘地貌。冻胀丘的本质特征是存在纯冰核或高含冰地层,冻胀丘地表的隆起高度即代表了地下冰层的累计厚度,在工程建设中一般采用避让措施。在我国冻土区公路建设中,过去尚未遇到道路穿越冻胀丘的先例,正在建设中的青海省共和-玉树高速公路（简称共玉高速）在玛多县多格茸盆地横跨几个冻胀丘,对公路建成以后安全运营造成潜在威胁。以共玉高速建设里程K430+070处道路所跨的冻胀丘为例,基于地温监测数据和冻胀丘钻探资料,探讨公路建设对冻胀丘下覆冰层的影响及由此带来的路基稳定性问题。监测发现目前路基下多年冻土上限已经下降至冻胀丘高含冰地层位置,由于沥青路面的强吸热性,未来冻胀丘路段将发生持续沉降。如果多年冻土完全融化,该段路基有可能发展成热融湖塘。     

U型块石路基结构对多年冻土的降温作用

通过对比北麓河试验段U型块石路基结构和普通路基下部土体温度监测研究,U型块石路基显著地抬升路基下部多年冻土上限,具有较强的降低多年冻土温度的作用.2005—2007年间,U型块石路基下多年冻土上限平均抬升幅度达0.9~1.4 m.路基中心下部0.5 m深土体温度降温幅度达1.13℃,原天然上限附近土体温度降温达1.28℃,5 m深的多年冻土降温幅度达0.77℃,且U型块石路基下部土体温度呈现逐年降低的趋势.然而,普通路基下部土体温度远比U型块石路基下部要高,2005年普通路基下部0.5 m深土体年平均温度比U型块石路基高1~3℃,1.5 m处高0.8~1.9℃,5 m处高1.2~1.5℃.同时,U型块石路基下部多年冻土上限抬升比普通路基大,2004—2006年间U型块石路基左路肩下多年冻土上限抬升比普通路基大0.86 m,路基中心大0.5 m.     

土石混合料的结构分类

探讨了振动三参数：离心力、激振频率和名义振幅对土石混合料振动压实效果的影响,提出了两种对比工艺。并根据土石混合料在同一振动工艺下的压实特性,指出土石混合料具有三种结构类型,以最大干密度为判据,含石量为指标进行了结构分类,给出了分类区间。