Analytical fragility analysis of southern Illinois wall pier supported highway bridges

An analytical fragility analysis was conducted in order to characterize the seismic vulnerability of existing southern Illinois wall pier supported highway bridges to potential earthquakes. To perform this fragility analysis, a detailed inventory survey was first taken of the wall pier bridges identified in an earlier random sampling of southern Illinois priority emergency route bridges. From the survey three types of wall pier bridges were identified. Of those identified, hammerhead and regular wall pier supported bridges represented nearly 90% of the population. Incorporating structural variations determined from the random sample survey, nearly 100 three‐dimensional nonlinear finite element models were constructed. Each model was subjected to a randomly assigned synthetic earthquake representative of those that could potentially occur within the region. From these analyses, a series of wall pier supported bridge fragility curves were produced. In addition, a liquefaction fragility analysis was conducted in order to characterize the seismic vulnerability of southern Illinois wall pier supported highway bridge sites to liquefaction in potential earthquakes. To perform this second fragility analysis, wall pier bridges within the southern Illinois random sample that may be susceptible to liquefaction were identified. A soil profile from each of these susceptible bridge sites was then subjected to randomly assigned bedrock motions, and an Arias intensity liquefaction analysis was carried out. From these analyses, a fragility curve for the potentially liquefiable wall pier supported bridge sites was produced. Overall results of this study indicate that southern Illinois wall pier supported bridges are moderately vulnerable to structural damage in a 2% probability of exceedance in 50 year earthquake, and in some cases they could also be highly vulnerable to on‐site liquefaction events. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

大圆筒结构在海上栈桥工程中的应用

大圆筒结构应用于威海华能金海湾国际饭店海上栈桥工程取得成功。重点论述大圆筒施工的工艺流程、方法以及注意事项,达到预期建设效果,获得相关结论。     

高墩大跨连续刚构桥梁地震易损性分析

基于增量动力分析方法,通过非线性地震反应分析,得到整体结构的破坏特征和易损位置,分析适用于高墩大跨连续刚构桥的损伤指标.对高墩大跨连续刚构桥进行整体结构的地震易损性分析时,采用应变作为墩柱损伤指标,位移作为支座损伤指标,绘制了基于整体性能的全桥易损性曲线.     

素混凝土置换墩复合地基在成都高层建筑地基处理中的应用

介绍了素混凝土置换墩复合地基在成都高层建筑地基处理中的应用,具有一定推广价值,并对这种新型的复合地基加固机理、设计、承载力计算进行了初步探讨。     

新型开孔桥墩水动力特性的PIV试验

基于粒子图像测速技术（Particle Image Velocimetry,PIV）对新型开孔桥墩周围的水流结构进行试验研究。通过分析开孔桥墩中轴面（y/b=0）处的立面流场和桥墩周围不同水深位置处的平面流场,探究开孔桥墩周围水流动力结构。试验结果表明,矩形开孔桥墩周围水流呈明显的三维结构特点。在桥墩上设置方孔,能有效地抑制墩前部分下降流的形成、降低墩前壅水的高度和改善墩侧水流流态,同时明显改变墩后尾流结构。方孔所在水深位置处（z/h=0.45）,墩侧低速区最大相对宽度以及墩后尾流区最大相对宽度与相对孔宽比（w/b）呈二次曲线关系,且相关关系密切。近水面处（z/h=0.75）,w/b=0.5条件下墩后旋涡对的相对长度为无孔时的70%;相反,近床面处（z/h=0.15）旋涡对的相对长度略有增加,但旋涡对的相对宽度一直保持在1左右。     

Experimental Study of Wave Pressure on a Breakwater Pier

Test studies on the wave pressure on a breakwater pier show that the influence of transmissivewave pressure on the outside wall of the breakwater pier is considerable,when the width of the pier is notvery large.The variations of transmissive wave pressure on the breakwater pier with different widths arecompared and the relationship is obtained between relative transmitting distance b/L and wave pressurereduction factor K,which may be used in the design of similar breakwater piers.     

Research on Motion Performance of the Mobile Double-Causeway Pier System

Mobile offshore double-causeway pier system, a type of seashore unloading equipment, consists of two groups of multiple connected semi-submersible modules. This structure has wide application because most of the middle or mini type of vessels and ships can be moored to it. Based on the analysis of computational methods of multi-body motion response, a hydrodynamic model is set up and the three-dimensional potential theory in finite depth is adopted to calculate the three-dimensional motion response of this system. The double P-M spectrum is used to analyze the motion response in irregular waves. Different wave directions are specially taken into consideration, due to their various effects to the motion response. Furthermore, the calculated result is compared with that of the experiment, and it is proved that sway, heave, pitch and yaw motion are greatly constrained by mooring system. The comparison also indicates that the model can forecast the motion performance of the target, and that the calculated result can also be used as reference in connector and mooring system design.     

钢—混凝土组合连续刚构桥墩梁连接节点抗震性能比较研究

钢-混凝土组合连续刚构桥的关键在于墩梁连接节点,设计了双层钢箱混凝土、钢筋混凝土和钢管混凝土等3种不同类型墩柱的连接节点构造形式。基于OpenSees平台建立了墩柱截面纤维有限元模型,并利用双层钢箱混凝土墩柱拟静力试验结果验证了数值模型的有效性,进而基于纤维有限元模型对3种不同类型墩柱节点进行了非线性滞回性能计算分析。结果表明:纤维模型能够模拟拟静力作用下组合连续刚构桥墩梁连接的滞回性能,双层钢箱混凝土墩柱与钢箱-混凝土组合梁连接节点的整体抗震性能要优于钢筋混凝土墩柱和实心钢管混凝土墩柱与钢箱-混凝土组合梁的连接节点,建议的刚性节点构造合理和传力路径明确,可为钢-混凝土组合连续刚构桥设计提供参考。     

Local scour around two side-by-side cylindrical bridge piers under ice-covered conditions

In the current study, 108 flume experiments with non-uniform, cohesionless sediments have been done to investigate the local scour process around four pairs of side-by-side bridge piers under both open channel and ice-covered flow conditions. Similar to local scour around bridge piers under open channel conditions and a single bridge pier, it was observed in the experiments that the maximum scour depth always occurred at the upstream face of the pier under ice-covered conditions. Further, the smaller the pier size and the greater the spacing distance between the bridge piers, the weaker the horseshoe vortices around the bridge piers, and, thus, the shallower the scour holes around them. Finally, empirical equations were developed to estimate the maximum scour depth around two side-by-side bridge piers under both open channel and ice-covered flow conditions.     

基础隔震结构的减震耗能特性分析

根据基础隔震理论,在钢筋沥青隔震礅的基础上,提出一种新型钢结构隔震礅,设计和制作了缩尺房屋模型,并对其进行振动台试验。通过对隔震结构模型的动力特性、地震响应及能量平衡分析,绘制试验过程中的加速度及能量时程曲线,研究钢隔震礅应用于低层框架结构的减震耗能能力。大量工程实例可以看出该隔震礅隔震效果显著,制作简单、价格低廉、耐久性好,适于在广大村镇地区低层框架结构中推广使用。试验表明:隔震结构模型在不同的地震作用下,加速度折减系数处在0.24~0.51之间,且结构的阻尼耗能在振动台试验中占总输入能量的60%~70%,对结构耗能起主导作用,说明该基础隔震装置不仅具有较好的减震耗能特性能,对于控制隔震层的位移也有好的效果。