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《Geomechanics and Geoengineering》2013,8(1):49-55
Stability of levees is critical to the safety of human and structures, especially at high water levels. Levees may fail due to the existence of soft soil foundations or seepage of water through the levees or rapid drawdown. Deep mixing technology has been considered one of the good alternatives to solve foundation and seepage problems while geosynthetics can be used to stabilize slopes during rapid drawdown. Studies have shown that deep mixed columns and geosynthetics can increase the stability of highway embankments over soft soils. In those studies, however, no ponding water exists on either side of the embankment, which is not the case for levees. Experimental studies have shown that deep mixed columns under a combination of vertical and horizontal force could fail due to shear or tension/bending or rotation. A finite difference method, incorporated in the FLAC (Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua) Slope software, and a limit equilibrium method (specifically Bishop's method), incorporated in the ReSSA software, were adopted in this study to investigate the stability of the levee with ponding water or under rapid drawdown. In this study, deep mixed columns were installed in continuous wall patterns, which were modeled as 2D deep mixed walls. Geosynthetic layers were modeled using cable elements with grout properties between geosynthetic and soil in the numerical analysis. Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria were used for the levee, the soft soil, and the deep mixed walls. The stability of a levee at different stages (end of construction, average service condition, high water surge, and rapid drawdown from the service condition and the highest water level condition) was examined. The study clearly demonstrated that the deep mixed walls can enhance the stability of the levee by providing shear/moment resistance and hindering seepage through the levee and geosynthetics can enhance the riverside slope stability of the levee by providing tensile resistance to the soil. 相似文献
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The main focus of this research is to detect vulnerabilities on the Mississippi river levees using remotely sensed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. Unstable slope conditions can lead to slump slides, which weaken the levees and increase the likelihood of failure during floods. On-site inspection of levees is expensive and time-consuming, so there is a need to develop efficient automated techniques based on remote sensing technologies to identify levees that are more vulnerable to failure under flood loading. Synthetic Aperture Radar technology, due to its high spatial resolution and potential soil penetration capability, is a good choice to identify problem areas along the levee so that they can be treated to avoid possible catastrophic failure. This research analyzes the ability of detecting the slump slides on the levee with NASA JPL’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) data. The main contribution of this research is the development of a machine learning framework to (1) provide improved knowledge on the status of the levees, (2) detect anomalies on the levee sections, (3) provide early warning of impending levee failures, and (4) develop efficient tools for levee health assessment. Textural features have been computed and utilized in the classification tasks to achieve efficient levee characterization. The RX anomaly detector, a training-free unsupervised classification algorithm, detected the active slides on the levee at the time of image acquisition and also flagged some areas as “anomalous,” where new slides appeared at a later date. 相似文献
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Richard P. Martin Robert B. Hamilton Paul M. McKenzie Robert H. Chabreck David A. Dell 《Estuaries and Coasts》1991,14(1):107-110
A short-term study based on snap-trap capture rates of small mammals in the marsh and levee system in southwestern Louisiana was conducted in the winter-spring period. Marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) dominated marsh habitats and rice rats and fulvous harvest mice (Reithrodontomys fulvescens) were co-dominants on levees. Least shrews (Cryptotis parva) and house mice (Mus musculus) were also taken. Although rice rat capture rate in marshes was twice that from levees, the difference was not significant (p=0.1428). When found on levees, rice rats preferred portions of levees adjacent to marshes and canals (p<0.0001). We found few differences in rice rat capture rates from marsh and levee habitats, although capture rates from fresh marsh and adjacent levees were select levee ridges over the marsh and canal edges (0.1≥p≥0.05). The abundance of harvest mice on levees adjacent to intermediate marshes exceeded all other levee habitats. For reasons as yet unexplained, intermediate marshes and adjacent levees had the highest small mammal abundance and species richness. Conversely, fresh marshes and their adjacent levees had the lowest abundance and variety of small mammals. 相似文献
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Moses Karakouzian B. Bur in Avar Nick Hudyma Jeffrey A. Moss 《Engineering Geology》2003,67(3-4):233-242
This paper presents the observations of cone penetration testing (CPT), in situ vane shear testing and undrained triaxial testing of underconsolidated marine clay in the Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area (CIDMMA), Norfolk, VA. Comparison of vane shear measurements, taken during 1981–1983, to CPT measurements, taken during 1993, indicates a change in undrained shear strength. Both the vane shear and cone penetration resistances are lowest at the mid-heights of the clay layers and the excess pore water pressures are highest at the mid-height of the clay layers, indicating that the clay layer is underconsolidated. 相似文献
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Very soft organic harbour mud is increasingly used as a filling and construction material in harbour construction and reorganization.
The undrained shear strength of such soft sediments is the critical geotechnical soil parameter with regard to any specific
construction design. Field and laboratory vane shear testing is a standard method to quickly determine this important parameter.
So far, the effect of rod friction on vane shear tests in very soft organic soils is unclear. In this study we present results
from laboratory experiments on harbour mud from a construction site in northern Germany. Relations among vane and rod geometry,
penetration depth, water content, rod friction and undrained shear strength are derived. Based on these relations the influence
of rod friction on vane shear test results is investigated. The results indicate that field and laboratory vane shear test
measurements may be significantly influenced by rod friction. Methods are proposed to correct for the rod influence, which
is shown to increase with rising water contents. 相似文献
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Levee foundations along meandering rivers are often modeled in seepage analyses with simplified models consisting of two layers having uniform thickness and soil properties. While this may simplify the analysis and allow for use of simplified reliability methods, it is important to realize the limitations of these simplifying assumptions. Due to the complex geomorphic regime that is often encountered in the fluvial environment, levee foundation geometry can range from simple to very complex. Variations in layer thickness and continuity affect the pore pressure and seepage regime and, consequently, affect the potential for internal erosion of the foundation soils. A study has been performed to assess the effects of complex subsurface geometry on the susceptibility of levees to underseepage related internal erosion. Reliability-based internal erosion analyses have been performed on eight hypothetical levee profiles using two analytical methods. The first-order second-moment-blanket theory (FOSM-BT) method applies a simplified reliability assessment technique to the US Army Corps of Engineers “Blanket Theory” equations. This method requires that the analysis profile be simplified to meet the requirements of the equations and places limitations on how the uncertainty of the various input parameters is modeled. The more complex response surface-Monte Carlo simulation method is capable of modeling more complex geometries and multiple failure modes and is flexible in how uncertainty of the various input parameters are modeled. The results of the two methods are compared to evaluate the effectiveness of the FOSM-BT in evaluating internal erosion potential in increasingly complex levee foundation conditions. 相似文献
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Guidance is provided for geotechnical engineers designing civil engineering works in silty soils based on a detailed characterisation of a glaciomarine silt from Os in western Norway. It was found that these soils are susceptible to disturbance by good quality fixed piston tube sampling and care needs to be taken when using laboratory derived design parameters, particularly for consolidation and shear strength properties. A technique for assessing sample disturbance using shear wave velocity and suction measurements proved promising. Conventional techniques for determining soil strength from triaxial tests in silt are inappropriate due to the dilational nature of the material and more reliable and logical strength estimates can be made from a limiting strain criterion. Field vane data should be used with caution as measured strength, particularly remoulded values, may be high and it seems more reliable parameters can be derived from CPTU tests. One dimensional consolidation and creep of these silts can be modelled successfully by the well-known Janbu formulation. The behaviour of the Os silts does not fit easily into classical soil mechanics and published frameworks for soft soils. It seems the material is of “transitional” type and this work adds to the database of such soils which includes other natural silts and gap graded soils. For future work it is recommended that larger sample tubes (say 75 mm) with a very sharp cutting edge should be used in parallel with in situ CPTU testing. 相似文献
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An analysis of the vane test using an Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian formulation within a finite element framework is presented. This is suitable for soft clays for which the test is commonly used to measure in situ undrained shear strength. Constitutive laws are expressed in terms of shear stress–shear strain rates, and that permits the study of time effects in a natural manner. An analysis of the shear stress distributions on the failure surface according to the material model is presented. The effect of the constitutive law on the shear band amplitude and on the position of the failure surface is shown. In general, the failure surface is found at 1–1·01 times the vane radius, which is consistent with some experimental results. The problem depends on two dimensionless parameters that represent inertial and viscous forces. For usual vane tests, viscous forces are predominant, and the measured shear strength depends mainly on the angular velocity applied. That can explain some of the comparisons reported when using different vane sizes. Finally, the range of the shear strain rate applied to the soil is shown to be fundamental when comparing experimental results from vane, triaxial and viscosimeter tests. Appart from that, an experimental relation between undrained shear strength and vane angular velocity has been reproduced by this simulation. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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An accurate prediction of the breach widening rate after the onset of a levee failure is essential for flood risk assessments. Current state-of-the-art analytical breach growth relations are empirical in nature. The large variety in loading conditions, levee design, and levee construction material, combined with the limited amount of accurate measurements of breach growth, make the development of accurate empirical breach growth relations challenging. In this paper, a process-based breach widening relation is presented for levees constructed of dilatant soils. The process-based relation is derived from the weir flow equation and a process-based erosion equation. The breach widening relation can account for the effects of variations in soil parameters. For those cases for which soil parameters are unknown, a calibrated catch-all-coefficient is provided. The relation is benchmarked against the state-of-the-art empirical breach growth relation used in the Netherlands and validated against data on historical levee failures and experimental data.
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For long earth embankments or levees, it is of interest to investigate the slope failure mode in the longitudinal direction. However, this is less commonly discussed in comparison to the plane-strain failure mode. In this paper, the longitudinal failure mode of a long embankment consisting of homogeneous soils is examined. A probabilistic approach using the first-order reliability method (FORM) is adopted to consider the uncertainty of soil properties. In particular, the spatial variability of the undrained shear strength of the soil is modelled in the probabilistic analysis. Parametric studies are subsequently conducted to examine the influence of this soil characteristic on the failure mode of the long embankment. 相似文献
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Myint Win Bo Ming-Fang Chang A. Arulrajah Victor Choa 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2012,30(1):45-62
Geotechnical ground investigation is important in all construction works particularly, land reclamation projects. The Changi
East reclamation project is a mega project that involves creation of land space as large as 3,000 hectares in multiple phases
between 1991 and 2005. Ground investigation plays a critical role in the Changi project which involved substantial amount
of ground improvement works after reclamation by sand filling. One important aspect of the investigation was to evaluate the
geotechnical characteristics of the underlying compressible soils beneath the original seabed for the selection of suitable
methods of ground improvement. The other important aspect of the investigation was to characterize and verify the compactness
of the reclaimed sand fill. Many types of in situ tests were extensively used in the project. The field vane shear test provides
correlations between the undrained shear strength and depth for the upper and the lower marine clay strata in the Northern
part and the Southern Part of the reclaimed site. Combined with laboratory undrained shear strength tests, the field vane
strength profiles allow the derivation of the undrained shear strength over effective stress ratios for the upper and the
lower marine clays. In addition, results from three other in situ tests, the piezocone cone penetration test, the flat dilatometer
test, and the self boring pressuremeter test provided useful verification of these correlations. A field-performance based
method of assessing degree of consolidation in the underlying clay was developed by combining field monitoring, laboratory
testing and conventional as well as specialized in situ testing. An effective use of in situ testing methods for assessment,
the outcome of ground improvement and for fill quality control in the densification of granular soils is illustrated with
field observation data collected at the project site. 相似文献
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考虑降雨的非饱和土边坡稳定性分析方法 总被引：49，自引：13，他引：49
降雨往往是引起热带和亚热带的膨胀土、残积土边坡失稳的主要促发因素。地处热带和亚热带的膨胀土、残积土往往是非饱和的，由于吸力的存在，土体抗剪强度较高，土坡是稳定的，一旦发生降雨，雨水将渗入土体，土体饱和度增加，吸力锐减并引起抗剪强度大幅度下降，当持续降雨的历时和强度超过一定程度时，则可导致土坡失稳。采用极限平衡分析方法，建立了一套能考虑水分入渗的非饱和土边坡的稳定性分析方法，该方法考虑在降雨后土坡水分为一分布场及抗剪强度参数为饱和度的函数。给出了一个计算实例。计算结果表明，降雨引起的土坡失稳往往为浅层破坏。 相似文献
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为防治漫顶引起侵蚀造成堤坝破坏,将微生物诱导碳酸钙沉淀即MICP技术应用于加固堤坝表层。通过向堤坝表层喷洒微生物细胞以及营养盐,最终在砂土孔隙中快速析出碳酸钙胶凝结晶,以改善堤坝表层砂的力学性能。首先,采用喷洒法处理堤坝表层;其次,对处理好的堤坝模型进行水槽试验,研究其抗侵蚀性;最后,对堤坝表层的试样进行强度与渗透试验。试验结果表明,采用MICP技术加固堤坝模型表层可有效提高其抗侵蚀力,防治由漫顶引起的堤坝破坏。对加固后的表层取样进行测试,结果表明：无侧限抗压强度可高达9 MPa,渗透系数从4×10?4 m/s 降低至7.2×10?7 m/s。试验说明,微生物胶结技术在加固堤坝表层方面具有潜在的工程实用价值和广阔的应用前景。 相似文献
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基于港珠澳大桥、深中通道、虎门大桥等工程的精细化勘察成果,分析了珠江口地区岩土层地质特性,区内岩土层可划分为淤泥质软土层、黏土粉质黏土层、中粗砂层、残积土层、不同程度风化基岩共5大层,结合区内水动力环境、沉积物类型、钻孔对比及地质剖面,将研究区划分为河口砂质沉积区、潮流型泥质沉积区、泥砂混合沉积区、浅海泥砂混合沉积区等4类。珠江口地区岩土层的物性参数特征研究表明,随着深度增大,岩土层含水率降低,快剪黏聚力增大,压缩系数减小,压缩模量增大;原状土十字板抗剪强度Cu与软土含水率w呈幂函数相关,与压缩模量Es、快剪黏聚力c呈线性正相关;孔压静力触探试验比贯入阻力ps与含水率w呈对数相关,与压缩系数a1?2呈幂函数相关,与黏性土、砂类土的快剪黏聚力c呈线性正相关,得到的经验公式可为珠江口地区类似场地工程建设提供参考。 相似文献
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泸定大渡河桥康定岸分布巨厚层冰碛土,为研究土的抗剪强度特性,在不同位置和深度进行了6组现场剪切试验,基于地质勘察和试验结果分析土的结构特征、剪切强度和变形特性及其与土的结构的关系。研究表明:冰碛土的颗粒以粗粒、巨粒粒组为主,骨架颗粒呈悬浮状,混杂、无序堆积,骨架间充填杂基,形成骨架悬浮密实结构。根据颗粒组成和骨架风化程度,划分为骨架悬浮密实结构、软化骨架悬浮密实结构、砂砾土富集结构、大块石包绕结构等4种细观结构类型。冰碛土剪切破坏主要有剪切破碎带、包绕块石边界、锯齿状剪切和切穿软化骨架等4种模式,剪切荷载作用下线弹性变形阶段明显,剪切刚度大,初始屈服历时短。颗粒骨架和杂基形成的悬浮密实结构,是冰碛土强度与变形特性的内在控制因素,剪切荷载作用下骨架颗粒与具有一定胶结的基质间相互作用,剪切破坏时表现为基质的压碎与骨架的变位。骨架颗粒强度、大骨架颗粒分布、基质胶结程度的不同,对冰碛土强度和变形特性都构成一定的影响。土的抗剪强度、剪切刚度和剪胀性随骨架强度和基质胶结程度的提高而增大,而延性随之变差。 相似文献
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This paper presents the method proposed to calculate the bearing capacity of a square footing under oblique and eccentric oblique loading condition (satisfying both shear failure and settlement criteria) resting on fiber reinforced sand layer underlain by sand with geosynthetic/fabric sheet at the interface. Large direct shear tests were carried out to investigate the shear strength parameters of sand and randomly distributed fiber reinforced sand (RDFS) and soil-plastic fabric sheet bond. The ultimate bearing capacity of RDFS was determined using direct shear results. Non-dimensional charts proposed by Kumar (Behaviour of eccentrically–obliquely loaded footing on reinforced earth slab. Ph.D. thesis, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India, 2002) were used to consider the contribution of plastic fabric sheet in increasing the bearing capacity. Also, for calculating the settlement, horizontal deformation and tilt at a given pressure the regression analysis of plate load test data have been carried out. The predicted values of ultimate bearing capacity, settlement, horizontal deformation and tilt are compared with the experimental values which are in good agreement with each other. There appeared to be an increase in the residual shear strength and angle of internal friction of RDFS. 相似文献
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多层边坡破坏机制数值模拟研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
通过大量的多层边坡算例来分析FLAC3D强度折减法在不同强度、坡比和层厚的情况下所得安全系数与滑动面位置的变化规律,并与极限平衡法进行对比,探究强度折减法和极限平衡法所得结果产生差异的原因,揭示多层边坡的破坏机制。数值模拟计算结果表明:①对于上层土体强度较软的边坡,当上下层强度相差到一定程度,表现为上层破坏,强度折减法与极限平衡法的安全系数相对差值最大,达5%~7%;上层土体厚度h增加时,安全系数逐渐减小;上层土体位于地表以下时,滑动面通过坡趾,安全系数保持不变。②对于下层土体强度较软的边坡,当上下层强度相差到一定程度,强度折减法所得安全系数基本保持不变,但极限平衡法仍保持增长趋势,最大相对差值可达12%;上层土体厚度h增加时,安全系数也相应增大,h位于9~12 m,边坡表现为深层破坏;而h=12 m时,极限平衡法的滑动面却通过坡趾,但安全系数相差很小。当h的变化范围在3~5 m,两种方法的安全系数相对差值最大,达6%~10%。破坏区分布分析表明,边坡呈拉伸-剪切复合破坏,对于下层土体强度较软的边坡,复合破坏模式更显著,与单一剪切破坏模式相比,最大有10%左右的相对差值。 相似文献
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K. Lendering T. Schweckendiek M. Kok 《Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards》2018,12(3):203-217
Polders in the Netherlands are protected from flooding by flood defence systems along main water bodies such as rivers, lakes or the sea. Inside polders, canal levees provide protection from smaller water bodies. Canal levees are mainly earthen levees along drainage canals that drain excess water from polders to the main water bodies. The water levels in these canals are regulated. During the last decades, probabilistic approaches have been developed to quantify the probability of failure of flood defences along the main water bodies. This paper proposes several extensions to this method to quantify the probability of failure of canal levees. These extensions include a method to account for (i) water-level regulation in canals, (ii) the effect of maintenance dredging on the geohydrological response of the canal levee and (iii) survival of loads in the past. The results of a case study demonstrate that the proposed approach is capable of quantifying the probability of failure of canal levees and is useful for exploring the relative benefit of risk mitigating measures for canal levees. 相似文献
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土体抗拉张力学特性研究进展 总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6
在传统土力学的观念中,土体通常不主动作为抗拉材料使用,土的抗拉强度很小,因而土体的抗拉强度往往被忽略或几乎视为零,造成土体抗拉强度理论远落后于抗剪强度理论。实际上,土体的抗拉张力学特性在土体变形与破坏的过程中起着非常重要的作用。总结了土体抗拉张力学特性试验的发展过程及发展特点,介绍了土体抗拉张力学试验的最新进展,并结合非饱和土力学及其抗拉强度理论的研究热点,认为对非饱和土合理统一的"吸力"认识仍然是非饱和土抗拉张特性研究的关键。然后,从岩土破坏模式角度,总结了岩土拉剪耦合破坏规律的8类破坏模式,分析了土体在此研究领域的现状,最后阐明了土体尤其是非饱和土的抗拉张力学特性研究现状的5个特点,展望了土体抗拉张力学特性新的重要研究方向。 相似文献