黄土边坡可靠度的随机有限元分析

为了研究黄土边坡的可靠度,在对黄土强度参数进行变异性统计、概率分布检验及垂直向自相关距离计算的基础上,将黄土强度参数黏聚力和内摩擦角作为随机变量,将其在二维边坡剖面的空间变化作为随机场,用局部平均细分法将符合一定均值和标准差的强度参数按随机场分布在边坡剖面的有限元网格上,再采用弹-理想塑性有限元计算边坡稳定系数,用MonteCarlo法计算其失效概率。结果表明:黄土黏聚力的变异系数多在0.30以上,内摩擦角的变异系数多在0.20以下,且黄土高原从西向东两个参数的变异性都增大;黏聚力和内摩擦角的概率分布类型对边坡失效概率计算结果影响显著,统计检验发现黏聚力采用对数正态分布、内摩擦角采用正态分布为宜;黄土地层的垂直向自相关距离多在0.7m以内,与计算厚度的比值多小于0.2;在大部分黄土的变异系数与自相关距离水平下,采用确定场进行可靠度分析,多数情况将极大地高估了黄土边坡的失效概率,而在极端高变异系数水平下,采用确定场进行可靠度分析,又将极大地低估其失效概率。     

天津地铁5号线与交叉线路GPS控制点的衔接

分析GPS网三维无约束平差和二维约束平差的理论模型,根据GPS网三维无约束平差和二维约束平差的特性,对地铁5号线GPS网平差结果和交叉线路的GPS控制点较差进行了对比分析,并给出地铁5号线与交叉线路平面控制衔接的合理解决方案。     

Depositional processes,bedform development and hybrid bed formation in rapidly decelerated cohesive (mud–sand) sediment flows

Flows with high suspended sediment concentrations are common in many sedimentary environments, and their flow properties may show a transitional behaviour between fully turbulent and quasi‐laminar plug flows. The characteristics of these transitional flows are known to be a function of both clay concentration and type, as well as the applied fluid stress, but so far the interaction of these transitional flows with a loose sediment bed has received little attention. Information on this type of interaction is essential for the recognition and prediction of sedimentary structures formed by cohesive transitional flows in, for example, fluvial, estuarine and deep‐marine deposits. This paper investigates the behaviour of rapidly decelerated to steady flows that contain a mixture of sand, silt and clay, and explores the effect of different clay (kaolin) concentrations on the dynamics of flow over a mobile bed, and the bedforms and stratification produced. Experiments were conducted in a recirculating slurry flume capable of transporting high clay concentrations. Ultrasonic Doppler velocity profiling was used to measure the flow velocity within these concentrated suspension flows. The development of current ripples under decelerated flows of differing kaolin concentration was documented and evolution of their height, wavelength and migration rate quantified. This work confirms past work over smooth, fixed beds which showed that, as clay concentration rises, a distinct sequence of flow types is generated: turbulent flow, turbulence‐enhanced transitional flow, lower transitional plug flow, upper transitional plug flow and a quasi‐laminar plug flow. Each of these flow types produces an initial flat bed upon rapid flow deceleration, followed by reworking of these deposits through the development of current ripples during the subsequent steady flow in turbulent flow, turbulence‐enhanced transitional flow and lower transitional plug flow. The initial flat beds are structureless, but have diagnostic textural properties, caused by differential settling of sand, silt and cohesive mud, which forms characteristic bipartite beds that initially consist of sand overlain by silt or clay. As clay concentration in the formative flow increases, ripples first increase in mean height and wavelength under turbulence‐enhanced transitional flow and lower transitional plug‐flow regimes, which is attributed to the additional turbulence generated under these flows that subsequently causes greater lee side erosion. As clay concentration increases further from a lower transitional plug flow, ripples cease to exist under the upper transitional plug flow and quasi‐laminar plug flow conditions investigated herein. This disappearance of ripples appears due to both turbulence suppression at higher clay concentrations, as well as the increasing shear strength of the bed sediment that becomes more difficult to erode as clay concentration increases. The stratification within the ripples formed after rapid deceleration of the transitional flows reflects the availability of sediment from the bipartite bed. The exact nature of the ripple cross‐stratification in these flows is a direct function of the duration of the formative flow and the texture of the initial flat bed, and ripples do not form in cohesive flows with a Reynolds number smaller than ca 12 000. Examples are given of how the unique properties of the current ripples and plane beds, developing below decelerated transitional flows, could aid in the interpretation of depositional processes in modern and ancient sediments. This interpretation includes a new model for hybrid beds that explains their formation in terms of a combination of vertical grain‐size segregation and longitudinal flow transformation.     

Vulnerability and resilience of remote rural communities to shocks and global changes: Empirical analysis from Solomon Islands

Successful management of socio-ecological systems not only requires the development and field-testing of robust and measurable indices of vulnerability and resilience but also improved understanding of the contextual factors that influence societal capacity to adapt to change. We present the results of an analysis conducted in three coastal communities in Solomon Islands. An integrated assessment map was used to systematically scan the communities’ multiple dimensions of vulnerability and to identify factors affecting households’ perception about their capacity to cope with shocks (resilience). A multivariate probit approach was used to explore relationships amongst factors. Social processes such as community cohesion, good leadership, and individual support to collective action were critical factors influencing the perception that people had about their community's ability to build resilience and cope with change. The analysis also suggests a growing concern for a combination of local (internal) and more global (external) contingencies and shocks, such as the erosion of social values and fear of climate change.     

饱和土体原位大型剪切试验方法与实践

由于室内剪切试验结果存在试样结构性扰动和尺寸效应等带来的不确定性问题,且以往的常规原位大型剪切试验是针对天然状态土体,不能获得饱和土体的强度参数,导致岩土结构稳定性分析和工程设计中大多采用反演方法求取强度参数,而很少直接运用这些试验参数.在本次试验方法研究中,试验仪器仍然采用常规的天然土体原位大型剪切试验仪器,针对土体饱和问题,设计了“制样后饱和法”和“饱和后制样法”2种浸水饱和装置,并采用这2套装置在甘肃省黑方台地区进行了7个饱和黄土原位大型剪切试验.结果表明,2种饱和方法都能够使土样饱和,“饱和后制样法”容易达到饱和,试验历时短,但对试样扰动大,甚至导致试样在制样时破坏,试验成功率低;“制样后饱和法”达到饱和历时稍长,对试样扰动小,试验成功率高.与原位天然大剪试验相比,粘聚力c值由44.65kPa下降至17.35kPa,φ值由14.18°降至11.95°;与室内饱和固结快剪相比,饱和黄土原位大剪的c值增加约4kPa,φ值增加3°左右.     

Mechanical behaviour and failure of cohesive granular materials

We investigate the stress–strain behaviour and failure of a cohesive granular material both by experiments and numerical simulations. The material is an assembly of aluminium rods glued together by means of an epoxy resin. The behaviour of cohesive bonds (force–displacement relationship, failure conditions) is characterized by performing simple loading tests (tension/compression, shear…) on a couple of rods. Then, this local behaviour is introduced in a numerical code based on a discrete element method in order to perform numerical compression tests on large samples. The validation of this approach was the main goal of the present investigation that is essentially achieved by a direct comparison between the numerical results and similar experimental tests. As a basic application, we derive the macroscopic cohesion and friction characteristics of random cohesive materials by systematic numerical simulations in a biaxial geometry. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Structural consequences of cohesion in gravitational instabilities triggered by fluid overpressure: Analytical derivation and experimental testing

The critical taper theory of Coulomb wedges has been classically applied to compressive regimes (accretionary prisms/fold-and-thrust belts), and more recently to gravitational instabilities. Following the initial hypothesis of the theory, we provide an alternative expression of the exact solution for a non-cohesive wedge by considering the balance of forces applied to the external surfaces. Then, we use this approach to derive a solution for the case of cohesive wedges. We show that cohesion has conspicuous structural effects, including a minimum length required for sliding and the formation of listric faults. The stabilizing effect of cohesion is accentuated in the foremost thin domain of the wedge, defining a required Minimum Failure Length (MFL), and producing sliding of a rigid mass above the detachment. This MFL decreases with less cohesion, a smaller coefficient of internal friction, larger fluid overpressure ratio, and steeper upper and basal surfaces for the wedge. Listricity of the normal faults depends on the fluid overpressure magnitude within the wedge. For moderate fluid overpressure, normal faults are curved close to the surface, and become straight at depth. In contrast, where fluid overpressure exceeds a critical value corresponding to the fluid pressure required to destabilize the surface of a noncohesive wedge, the state of stress changes and rotates at depth. The faults are straight close to the surface and listric at depth, becoming parallel to the upper surface if the wedge is thick enough. We tested some of these structural effects of a cohesive wedge on gravitational instabilities using analogue models where cohesive material was subjected to pore-fluid pressure. The shape of the faults obtained in the models is consistent with the predictions of the theory.     

基于拉剪强度同等折减法的滑坡稳定性分析

以攀枝花教师街滑坡为背景,考虑土体抗拉强度的影响,结合抗剪强度,采用“拉剪强度同等折减法”来研究滑坡的稳定性。通过室内试验,分析了含水率对教师街滑坡不同岩土层的影响规律,发现滑带层土体的内摩擦角和粘聚力受水的作用更加显著。通过利用有限差分软件FLAC和拉剪同等折减法,得到了教师街滑坡的拉剪临界折减系数、临界内摩擦角、临界粘聚力;同时,还发现教师街滑坡对土体的内摩擦角敏感度最高,但是抗拉强度的影响和粘聚力很接近,不容忽视;滑坡坡肩位移大于坡脚位移,应注意坡肩位移的变化。     

Effect of Moisture on Attraction Force in Beach Sand

Beach sands located above the sea water level exist in an unsaturated, rather than a fully saturated or dry state. Within the unsaturated zone, a steep excavated surface can be sustained for some unknown but finite time, and some slopes may remain stable for extended time periods due to capillary forces. These observations clearly indicate small but nonzero values for attraction strength (tensile strength and cohesion) in unsaturated beach sands, especially apparent but not confined to settings where there are low stress levels. Thus, experiments were carried out to quantify the magnitude of attraction strength in moist sands (D _r ?=?30%) and to examine the variation of these values as a function of moisture content and presence of a small amount of fines. Tensile strength, which is significantly different from zero, increases with increasing moisture content and fines. However, the influences of fines on the tensile strength are substantially dependent on the water content. Apparent cohesion strength is also identified in moist sands. A simple relationship between tensile strength and apparent cohesion is proposed using the obtained data. This study would help to further understand the phenomenon of stability of beach sands.     

Contribution à l'étude de la vitesse critique d'érosion des sols cohésifs

The phenomena of erosion and sedimentation in rivers are treated qualitatively and quantitatively. An analytical solution of the bedload critical velocity for erosion and sedimentation is proposed, depending on material property, geometry and on flow characteristics. The critical velocity of erosion of the river bed, as defined by Hjulström in 1935, can be explained by a cohesive behaviour of the grains. Whereas the cohesive force is dominated by an 1/r² (r is the radius of grains) force when grains are small, it can be modelled by the cohesion C and the friction angle φ for larger grains. To cite this article: J. Gargani, C. R. Geoscience 336 (2004).