砾石床面的空气动力学粗糙度

通过砾石床面的空气动力学粗糙度(Z₀)的风洞实验研究,结果表明,砾石床面的空气动力学粗糙度(Z₀)与砾石粒径、砾石覆盖度和自由风速有关,Bagnold的1/30定律和其它有关空气动力学粗糙度与粗糙元高度的固定比例对砾石床面都不适用。在各种一定砾石覆盖度条件下,砾石床面的Z₀随自由风速的增加而呈指数衰减。在各种一定自由风速条件下,Z₀随砾石覆盖度C的变化遵循二次曲线:Z₀=F₁+F₂C+F₃C^1.5+F₄C²,砾石覆盖度为40%~75%时,Z₀达到最大值。建立了包含自由风速和砾石覆盖度两个因子的Z₀的双因子综合模型。     

鄱阳湖砂山地区风沙化过程中物种多样性的变化

对鄱阳湖砂山地区土地风沙化过程中物种多样性的变化特征进行了分析,依据植物种在各类型风沙化土地的出现频率与不同风沙化阶段各生活型植物种的组成,探讨了风沙化过程中植物种绝灭与定居特点。物种多样性指数分析表明:风沙化过程是物种多样性衰减的过程,风沙化首先导致特有种的灭绝,其次为稀有种。从植物的生活型来看,多年生草本与乔木类植物受风沙化影响最大,而灌木类植物可存活风沙化过程各个阶段,在风沙化过程中植物种的绝灭速率大于定居速率。     

低饱和度非饱和土的抗剪强度理论及其应用

从非饱和土的微观结构入手,提出并推导了土颗粒间毛细吸力引起的基质吸力与附加有效应力关系的近似解,并进一步得到了低饱和度非饱和土的抗剪强度公式。通过试验资料和理论分析验证了所推公式的合理性、正确性。最后分析了土颗粒半径差异、土体平均粒径大小对非饱和土强度的影响。     

非饱和土固结理论新进展

总结了国内外多年来在非饱和土固结理论领域研究的主要理论成果,内容包括国内外非饱和土固结理论研究的概况,涉及线性、非线性、弹塑性和结构性等方面,非饱和土固结理论的研究具有非常好的应用前景。但非饱和土固结理论还很不成熟,有待广大科研工作者的进一步研究。     

路堤荷载下具盖板的浆固碎石桩桩土应力比研究

桩土应力比是反映复合地基工作状态的重要参数,前人做了较多的理论工作,但理论解通常是在桩顶铺设砂垫层情况下推出的。在路堤荷载下浆固碎石桩复合地基一般在桩顶设置盖板,针对浆固碎石桩复合地基的特殊情况,进行了理论模型简化,并且运用极限平衡理论和弹性理论,推导了设置盖板的浆固碎石桩复合地基在路堤荷载下桩土应力比公式,并通过工程实测资料进行了验证,其结果可为浆固碎石桩复合地基的优化设计提供参考。     

Work and energy equations and the principle of generalized effective stress for unsaturated soils

The effective stress principle has been efficiently applied to saturated soils in the soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering practice; however, its applicability to unsaturated soils is still under debate. The appropriate selection of stress state variables is essential for the construction of constitutive models for unsaturated soils. Owing to the complexity of unsaturated soils, it is difficult to determine the deformation and strength behaviors of unsaturated soils uniquely with the previous single‐effective‐stress variable theory and two‐effective‐stress‐variable theory in all the situations. In this paper, based on the porous media theory, the specific expression of work is proposed, and the effective stress of unsaturated soils conjugated with the displacement of the soil skeleton is further derived. In the derived work and energy balance equations, the energy dissipation in unsaturated soils is taken into account. According to the derived work and energy balance equations, all of the three generalized stresses and the conjugated strains have effects on the deformation of unsaturated soils. For considering these effects, a principle of generalized effective stress to describe the behaviors of unsaturated soils is proposed. The proposed principle of generalized effective stress may reduce to the previous effective stress theory of single‐stress variable or the two‐stress variables under certain conditions. This principle provides a helpful reference for the development of constitutive models for unsaturated soils. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stress history effects on 1‐D consolidation of soft soils: a rheological model

Stress history plays an important role in controlling the consolidation behavior of soft clays, but few models exist that can provide quantitative estimate of its influence. In this paper, the Gibson–Lo rheological model is used to simulate the coupled processes of drainage and creep of soft soils that takes stress history into account. A hybrid combination of analytical and numerical methods is adopted to solve the governing equations of consolidation with the nonlinear rheological model. The methodology is applied to a saturated soft soil subjected to surface loading. The soil profile is separated into normally consolidated and overconsolidated layers by a boundary that is allowed to move. Comparisons of the model predictions and its simulations are used to evaluate the effects of stress history, model parameters, and loading pattern on consolidation behavior. It is shown that stress history influences the location of the moving boundary, variations of the profiles of excess pore water pressure dissipation, stress and deformation‐based average degrees of consolidation. Parametric studies conducted show that when soil is stiffer, the excess pore water pressure dissipates much more quickly, and thus the soil consolidates much faster especially at the early stages. The results also show that soil viscosity influences the deformation‐based average degree of consolidation at the latter stages. The consolidation process of soil layer under linear loading is shown to lag behind those under instantaneous loading: the longer the loading period is, the smaller the average degrees of consolidation are no matter how they are defined. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The response of a gravel‐bed river planform configuration to flow variations and bed reworking: a modelling study

A 2D depth‐averaged model has been developed for simulating water flow, sediment transport and morphological changes in gravel‐bed rivers. The model was validated with a series of laboratory experiments and then applied to the Nove reach of the Brenta River (Northern Italy) to assess its bed material transport, interpret channel response to a series of intensive flood events (R.I. ≈ 10 years) and provide a possible evolutionary scenario for the medium term. The study reach is 1400 m long with a mean slope of 0.0039 m m^?1. High‐resolution digital terrain models were produced combining LiDAR data with colour bathymetry techniques. Extensive field sedimentological surveys were also conducted for surface and subsurface material. Data were uploaded in the model and the passage of two consecutive high intensity floods was simulated. The model was run under several hypotheses of sediment supply: one considering substantial equilibrium between sediment input and transport capacity, and the others reducing the sediment supply. The sediment supply was then calibrated comparing channel morphological changes as observed in the field and calculated by the model. Annual bed material transport was assessed and compared with other techniques. Low‐frequency floods (R.I. ≈ 1.5 years) are expected to produce negligible changes in the channel while high floods may erode banks rather than further incising the channel bed. Location and distribution of erosion and deposition areas within the Nove reach were predicted with acceptable biases stemming from imperfections of the model and the specified initial, boundary and forcing conditions. A medium‐term evolutionary scenario simulation underlined the different response to and impact of a consecutive sequence of floods. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The relative role of soil type and tree cover on water storage and transmission in northern headwater catchments

Soil water storage and stable isotopes dynamics were investigated in dominant soil–vegetation assemblages of a wet northern headwater catchment (3.2 km²) with limited seasonality in precipitation. We determined the relative influence of soil and vegetation cover on storage and transmission processes. Forested and non‐forested sites were compared, on poorly drained histosols in riparian zones and freely draining podzols on steeper hillslopes. Results showed that soil properties exert a much stronger influence than vegetation on water storage dynamics and fluxes, both at the plot and catchment scale. This is mainly linked to the overall energy‐limited climate, restricting evaporation, in conjunction with high soil water storage capacities. Threshold behaviour in runoff responses at the catchment scale was associated with differences in soil water storage and transmission dynamics of different hydropedological units. Linear input–output relationships occurred when runoff was generated predominantly from the permanently wet riparian histosols, which show only small dynamic storage changes. In contrast, nonlinear runoff generation was related to transient periods of high soil wetness on the hillslopes. During drier conditions, more marked differences in soil water dynamics related to vegetation properties emerged, in terms of evaporation and impacts on temporarily increasing dynamic storage potential. Overall, our results suggest that soil type and their influence on runoff generation are dominant over vegetation effects in wet, northern headwater catchments with low seasonality in precipitation. Potential increase of subsurface storage by tree cover (e.g. for flood management) will therefore be spatially distributed throughout the landscape and limited to rare and extreme dry conditions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.