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Of the various types of road structures, bridges are the most exposed to icing; the problem of icing is widely addressed through salting, which reduces the lifespan of the bridge. One promising solution to avoid the use of salt is the seasonal storage of solar heat energy captured directly through the asphalt layer; however, this solution can only be achieved cost effectively if a necessary geostructure is used as a heat exchanger. In this study, such an approach is studied for a bridge crossing a canal, and the geotechnical and energy-related challenges of such a solution are discussed. Bridge piers and abutments are located on piles, which are used as heat exchangers. Depending on local conditions, seasonal storage and natural thermal reload are two possible solutions for the operation of such a system. In particular, the presence of underground water flow is thought to be a significant factor in such a design and is considered here. This study aims to determine the geotechnical and energy design parameters through thermo-hydro-mechanical simulations. A three-dimensional finite-element model analysis is necessary given the distance between bridge piles. Various underground water flow scenarios are studied. The capture of energy and de-icing requirements is based on the few existing structures that use other means of energy exchange with the ground. The results indicate that the use of heat-exchanger piles for de-icing bridges can only be considered at specific sites; however, the efficiency of the solution at those sites is high. Possible foundation and structure stability problems are also considered, such as vertical displacements due to the dual use of the foundation piles. 相似文献
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为考虑土体剪切模量对陡坡段桥梁基桩内力计算的影响,首先探讨桩后土压力的分布形式,并根据陡坡段桥梁基桩的承载特性建立简化分析模型;其次,引入Pasternak双参数模型,建立可考虑土体剪切模量的地基抗力计算模型;并在此基础上分别对受荷段与嵌固段基桩微元进行受力分析,求得各段控制差分方程,从而进一步迭代求解桩身位移及内力;最后,分别用陡坡段桥梁基桩实测数据与Pasternak双参数模型算例对本文内力计算方法进行验算,结果表明:本文计算方法用于陡坡段桥梁基桩内力计算是合理的,可为同类工程提供参考。 相似文献
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本文按发育岩性(可溶岩和非可溶岩), 发育规模(如桥高、拱高、跨度等), 桥下河谷的发育特征(常年性、季节性河流和干谷), 及发育成因(地表和地下), 提出天生桥的4大分类方案, 简要介绍和概括了近年来中国发现的典型岩溶天生桥的类型、分布格局、发育规模及景观组合和对比特征。然后以重庆黔江蒲花天生桥群为例, 初步分析和探讨了它的形成与演化, 系统分析和评价了它的资源系统, 通过与黔江区、武陵山区旅游资源及国内其它相似景区的对比, 概括其资源特色为“一河两桥三窗”, 并结合其市场条件, 将旅游开发主题定格为“桥下游暗河, 桥上走天桥, 上游漂激流”, 提出“一心二带一区三环”的功能布局, 探讨不同功能区的开发思路, 划分出主导、重要和配套3个层次的旅游产品项目, 构建连通桥上桥下的三大游览环线, 设计出“河-人-桥”三位一体的灯光效果。最后, 通过对中国典型岩溶天生桥旅游开发方式的概括、对比和分析, 提出岩溶天生桥纵向分层旅游开发方式, 并概括出3大分层方式: (1)“桥下观光, 桥上保护”式; (2)“桥下桥上观光”式; (3)“桥下保护, 桥上观光”式。 相似文献
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冻土和地震是我国西部高寒高烈度地区桥梁工程建设中主要面临的两大挑战。冻土区线路工程广泛采用桩基础桥梁, 土体冻结后会显著影响地震作用下桩-土动力相互作用过程, 给桩基础桥梁抗震分析带来困难。首先系统总结和分析了冻土对桥梁结构地震响应的影响、 桩-冻土相互作用效应及其计算模型等方面的研究现状, 进而对相关成果进行了科学分析。研究表明： 冻土的存在对桥梁结构地震反应的影响是显著的, 桩基础桥梁抗震设计中不考虑冻土效应是不合理的。目前还存在的问题包括： 冻土区桥梁结构地震反应的研究中, 未充分考虑冻土效应; 现有桩-土相互作用模型无法有效应用于冻土领域; 地震作用下桩-冻土体系相互作用机理及其破坏特征不明确。在此基础上, 提出了考虑冻土效应后桥梁桩-土动力相互作用为今后需要重点研究的方向。 相似文献
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Timothy O. Lawrence Chad T. Ritter Janos Gergely 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2011,29(5):919-926
Over fifty percent of our nation’s 560,000-plus bridges are obsolete or structurally deficient. To upgrade or replace these
structures would require a serious budget. In order to shorten this list of bridges and to improve their ratings, state DOTs
are investigating new repair techniques and better performance evaluation tools in order to implement the new drive to sustainability
within the infrastructure. The research presented herein focused on the evaluation of current US bridge analysis and rating
procedures for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). To evaluate these procedures, several bridges were
rated with commercially available software and a newly developed spreadsheet program. In parallel, the bridges were also load
tested for comparison, from which, it was concluded that the NCDOT’s bridge rating software directly follows the latest AASHTO
requirements. The experimental results, however, also proved that the bridges had significant strength reserves associated
to several factors, such as, girder/deck composite action, impact and distribution factors, material strength, and contribution
of non-structural elements. In this research, a simplified bridge testing protocol was developed from which it was concluded,
that a relatively simple instrumentation setup could be effective in the load rating of bridges through testing. The data
gathered through these instruments provide vital performance data for normal traffic conditions, as well as during extreme
loading conditions and evacuations, which could lead to less restrictive load ratings and removal of the structurally deficient
classification, yielding a more sustainable structure. 相似文献
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Gary L. Catchen 《Chemical Geology》1984,46(3):181-195
A recently developed method of pore-fluid age determination assumes secular equilibrium in the 238U decay chain. The efficacy of this approximation is investigated using computer evaluations of the equations that give the time evolution of the 238U decay chain, i.e. the solution of the equations of radioactive growth and decay. This analysis is performed considering two alternative geochemical scenarios to that of secular equilibrium — only 238U present initially and 238U and 234U present initially. In addition, the effects of the 235U decay chain are also determined in a similar fashion. These particular examples were chosen to show that more sophisticated geochronological models for many dating applications can be developed using such computer calculations. To facilitate such analyses, a solution of the equations of radioactive growth and decay for an arbitrary initial condition is derived using the Laplace transformation method and matrix algebra. Other solutions — both general and special — that are found in some well-known textbooks are reviewed. 相似文献
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The leading cause of bridge failure has often been identified as bridge scour, which is generally defined as the erosion or removal of streambed and/or bank material around bridge foundations due to flowing water. These scour critical bridges are particularly vulnerable during extreme flood events, and pose a major risk to human life, transportation infrastructure, and economic sustainability. Retrofitting the thousands of undersized and scour critical bridges to more rigorous standards is prohibitively expensive requiring effective yet economical countermeasures. This research tested the efficacy of using approach embankments as intentional sacrificial “fuses” to protect the bridge integrity and minimize damage during large flow events by allowing the streams to access their natural floodplain and reduce channel velocities. This countermeasure concept was evaluated using the Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System models. Steady flow models were developed for three specific bridges on two river reaches. Streamflow return period estimators for both river reaches were developed using Bayesian analysis and available United States Geological Survey stream gauge data to evaluate sacrificial embankments under non-stationary climatic conditions. The use of sacrificial embankments was determined to be a cost-effective scour mitigation strategy for bridges with suboptimal hydraulic capacity and unknown or shallow foundations. Additional benefits of sacrificial embankments include reductions in upstream flood stage and velocity. 相似文献
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Human has always modified its surroundings for better adaptation which include the building of urban landscapes, dams, and engineering constructions like bridges and other infrastructures. It has been unveiled from the study of River Chel that when the rail bridge was constructed before 1913, the natural width of the river was nevertheless maintained but the problem was initiated and after the road bridge construction in 1970s when the river width was minimized,the morphological changes started in a large scale. Such modifications have affected nature as well as human communities both positively and negatively. This paper will try to portray the evolution of channel shifting and changes of sediment size regime that the River Chel is experiencing due to the construction of bridges across the middle part of its course. So, this study is concerned about the changes in channel pathway since last 100 years and field-based hydrological parameters and sediment size analysis reveals some distinct changes in the channel planform with alteration of sediment size regime. Simulation of the hydraulic modeling in HEC-RAS specifies the probable affected area with bridges and without bridges in both upstream and downstream of the river course. Hence, the study unveils the alteration of the river hydrology and sediment size caused due to anthropogenic effects and impact of such flow analysis has been evaluated through the bridge scour calculation by CUS method. The discussion concludes that the Odlabari road bridge construction (after 1970) has modified the normal hydrological behavior of the river with a higher probability of bank erosion in downstream and floods in upstream resulting river bottleneck condition. 相似文献
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The Tacoma Bridge disaster, in the 40s, has opened a new interesting chapter in the study of suspension bridges. This is still open today, as the need of making connections easier leads to bridge spans which are longer and longer. Table I gives a list of the suspension bridges with the longest main span, while Figure 1 shows the trend in the main span length for different kind of bridges: a sharp growth is clear in the last years. The complex development of the Messina Strait Bridge project is part of this scenario, in which longer and longer bridges are being built. The project has been brought to an end by 1992 (Ponte sullo Stretto di Messina, 1992): it is a road and railway crossing, with a main span of 3300 m. This paper resumes the huge research carried out about the wind actions on the bridge, which is for sure one among the most critical aspects of the project. Into details, the main purpose has been a careful design and improvement in the shape of both the deck and the towers. An outline of the research carried out on this topic is going to be presented, together with the main results (see also Diana et al., 1999b;Diana et al., 1998;Cigada, 1994;Brancaleoni, 1993;Simiu and Scanlan, 1986). 相似文献
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Recently, FFT techniques are frequently applied for local gravity field modeling. Compared to FFT wavelet transformation has some advantages: — higher numerical efficiency, — data compression.The disadvantage of wavelets for gravity field modelling is that the resulting equations are sparse, but not diagonal, as in the FFT case.This paper is to show, how this drawback can be overcome by the use of different systems of orthogonal base functions for data analysis and solution synthesis. 相似文献
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岩体裂隙内常充满具有压力的水或软弱填充物,裂隙受内压荷载扩展破坏是岩土工程关心的问题。将该问题等效为裂隙面受一对I型拉力作用的弹塑性断裂力学问题,采用裂隙线附近分析方法,从平衡方程和岩桥材料的破坏准则出发求解裂隙线附近的塑性应力场,将该应力场与弹性应力场在其弹塑性边界上进行匹配,得出裂隙内的压力大小与裂隙扩展长度之间的关系,以及岩桥断裂时的最大承载力。 相似文献
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长江中下游特大桥主要工程地质问题的勘察与研究 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
20世纪90年代以来, 长江中下游特大跨江公路专用桥建设开始起步, 至今已有黄石、铜陵、江阴、武汉、南京等长江公路大桥建成通车, 并有多座大桥正在建设和勘测设计.在大桥建设中遇到了地震与断裂构造、软弱层带、极软岩、岩溶等复杂的工程地质问题.在解决这些问题中除了采用常规的工程地质勘察和试验技术外, 还进行了软岩流变试验、钻孔内彩色电视录像、原位承载力及压桩试验、桥基地质力学模型试验等技术和方法, 取得了可靠的数据, 为大桥设计提供了依据, 并通过已建成大桥的实践得到了证明.这些勘察研究的技术方法为长江中下游特大桥建设提供了经验. 相似文献
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天津市近几年来新建了多座具有独特风格和景观效果的新型桥梁,本文主要介绍其中的三座斜拉桥、三座拱桥、一座自锚式悬索桥和一座集交通、观光、游览为一体的巨型摩天轮桥梁,以及三座经装修改建、使旧桥换新颜的实例。 相似文献
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Michal Nem
ok Andreas Henk Rodney A. Gayer Sara Vandycke Tanya M. Hathaway 《Journal of Structural Geology》2002,24(12)
We present a finite-element study of stress perturbation in evolving compressive and extensional strike-slip fault bridges. The results are compared with a fracture study of a compressive bridge at St Donats, UK. Horizontally interbedded calcareous mudstone and bioclastic calcilutite at St Donats have a distinct vertical permeability anisotropy. This sedimentary sequence behaves as a set of horizontal aquifers. The fluid flow in these aquifers is sensitive to mean stress gradients. Paleostress analysis of field fracture data, verified by finite-element modelling, indicates a rotation of σ1 towards parallelism with boundary faults inside the growing compressive bridge. Boundary faults and bridge faults recorded numerous fluid flow events. The modelled mean stress pattern shows a regional maximum within the bridge and local maxima/minima pairs at boundary fault tips.Finite-element modelling of an extensional bridge indicates that σ3 rotates towards parallelism with boundary faults. The mean stress pattern is similar to the pattern in compressive bridge but with maxima and minima locations interchanged. The stress patterns are reestablished by each stress build-up preceding the rupturation of the boundary faults throughout the development stages of strike-slip fault bridges. Mean stress gradients developed pre-failure control the fluid flow in fractures of the strike-slip fault system at and after the end of each stress build-up and the fluid flow in boundary faults post-failure. Fracture reactivation and new fracture generation within an evolving bridge is a process consisting of multiple successive events that retain the storage capacity of the bridge. Rupture and sealing of the main bounding-faults is a step-wise process that opens and closes fluid conduits between areas with different pressures. 相似文献
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Probability-based damage assessment for reinforced concrete bridge columns considering the corrosive and seismic hazards in Taiwan 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
In this paper, we consider the time at which earthquake events occur when analyzing seismic structural damage to a deteriorating RC bridge within a specified period. Because the uncertainty exists in the occurrence time of earthquake events, Monte Carlo simulation is applied. The proposed procedure for evaluating the exceedance probability, which corresponds to a specified limit state, is then applied to a case study of RC bridges in Taiwan to demonstrate its applicability. This study selects three typical RC bridges located in the Taipei Basin, Taiwan, to analyze exceedance probabilities of specified damage states during various specified periods and then discusses the cumulative damage effect on the exceedance probabilities of specified damage states. Additionally, for the chloride-induced deteriorating bridges at various distances to the sea in Suao, Taiwan, the effects of the deterioration and seismic structural damage on the exceedance probabilities of specified damage states are demonstrated and discussed. The proposed assessment procedure can help engineers understand whether the deterioration would accelerate the declining seismic performance of bridges and shorten their serviceability-related and safety-related service lives, as well as provide reference for repairing RC bridges and retrofitting their seismic performance. 相似文献
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We present a fully implicit formulation of coupled flow and geomechanics for fractured three-dimensional subsurface formations. The Reservoir Characterization Model (RCM) consists of a computational grid, in which the fractures are represented explicitly. The Discrete Fracture Model (DFM) has been widely used to model the flow and transport in natural geological porous formations. Here, we extend the DFM approach to model deformation. The flow equations are discretized using a finite-volume method, and the poroelasticity equations are discretized using a Galerkin finite-element approximation. The two discretizations—flow and mechanics—share the same three-dimensional unstructured grid. The mechanical behavior of the fractures is modeled as a contact problem between two computational planes. The set of fully coupled nonlinear equations is solved implicitly. The implementation is validated for two problems with analytical solutions. The methodology is then applied to a shale-gas production scenario where a synthetic reservoir with 100 natural fractures is produced using a hydraulically fractured horizontal well. 相似文献
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随着我国高速铁路网络逐步向寒区大范围延伸, 线路纵向上选用了较高比例的桥梁以跨越地形, 势必出现大量的路桥过渡段。路桥过渡段使线路纵向上出现了刚度变化以及桥用、 路用材料的工程抗冻性能差异, 进而引发不均匀的冻胀和融沉变形, 产生桥头跳车的可能, 降低行车的舒适度和安全性。文章运用土壤冻融条件下热传导理论的基本方程和数值方法, 结合哈大高铁的典型工况建立路桥过渡段模型, 计算分析其在春季融化期间的冻结特征差异和演变规律, 并基于工程优化设计了三种不同的台后填筑模式, 得到冻融条件下该气候分区的热影响范围, 并基于此分析了冻结圈面积、 周长、 长宽比和横向热扰动距离等几何指标。计算结果表明, 仅考虑热学影响时, 在有保温层和无锥台护坡工况下, 路桥过渡段的综合效果较好。 相似文献