Degradation of lateral bearing capacity of piles in soft clay subjected to cyclic lateral loading     

Wei Shao  Dongyan Yang  Ying Liu 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(8):999-1006

Abstract

In this article, the degradation of the lateral bearing capacity of piles in soft clay subjected to cyclic lateral loading is studied numerically. A modified kinematic hardening constitutive model is employed to simulate the degradation of soft clay after cyclic loading. The modified model is verified by comparing the numerical simulation results with the results of centrifuge model tests. Furthermore, the modified model is applied to numerical simulations for evaluating the lateral bearing capacity of piles in soft clay subjected to cyclic lateral loading. The degradation of the lateral bearing capacity of piles in soft clay after different cyclic displacement levels and different numbers of cycles is investigated. The study reveals that the modified kinematic hardening constitutive model can effectively estimate the cyclic degradation behavior of piles in soft clay subjected to cyclic lateral loading. The degradation of the ultimate lateral bearing capacity progresses slowly with increasing cyclic displacement level for fewer cycles, and the degradation develops significantly at higher levels of cyclic displacement after applying a larger number of cycles.  相似文献   

Application of three numerical procedures to evaluation of earthquake-induced damages   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

K. Sivathasan  X. S. Li  K. K. Muraleetharan  C. Yogachandran  K. Arulanandan 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2000,20(5-8):325-339

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Indentation of a continent with a built-in thickness change: experiment and nature     

Dimitrios Sokoutis  Marco Bonini  Sergei Medvedev  Mario Boccaletti  Christopher J. Talbot  Hemin Koyi 《Tectonophysics》2000,320(3-4):243-270

Orogens oblique to the direction of plate convergence are currently attributed to obliquity between the margins of one or both of the sutured continents to their direction convergence. We use a single analogue experiment and natural examples to illustrate a potential additional factor: variations in strength of the indented continent at a high angle to the convergence direction. The wavelengths of structures in laterally shortened lithosphere depend on the strength of the most competent layers. Lateral variations in crustal thickness must therefore lead to structures oblique to any applied lateral compression.

An analogue experiment was performed to explore this phenomenon. A two-layer ‘indented continent’ was modelled by a brittle upper crust of sand above a lower crust of high-viscosity polymer floating on a single layer of low-viscosity syrup representing the mantle. The well-known strike-slip structures allowing lateral escape to distant weak boundaries were hindered by lateral boundaries in front of the indenter. This allowed us to focus on the effects of a thickness change built into the ‘indented continent’ along a zone parallel to the direction in which a vertical rigid wall advancing at a steady rate represented the indenter. Vertical escape led to an ‘orogenic belt’ oblique to the advancing wall; this obliquity influences subsequent lateral escape. Model scaling and interpretations are based on Extended Thin Sheet Approximation (ETSA) and standard theories of faulting.

Four sectors of the Alpine–Himalayan orogen (Iran, Tunisia, the Eastern Alps and the Himalaya) are oblique to the continental convergence direction, and we point to thickness changes at high angles to the suture that may account for this geometry. As crustal thicknesses north of oblique sectors of the Himalayas are not yet known, we speculate on them.

We infer from the main difference between our experiment and all our examples chosen from nature that vertical orogenic escape was oblique to our model suture but can be parallel to natural sutures.  相似文献   

四种地下结构抗震设计简化分析方法对比     

徐琨鹏  景立平  宾佳 《震灾防御技术》2019,14(2):281-292

在地下结构抗震设计简化分析方法中,强制反应位移法将土层变形施加在有限元模型侧边界模拟地震作用,反应加速度法将土层加速度施加到整个有限元模型上模拟地震作用,此外还有仅将土层加速度施加到土层模型上模拟地震作用的方法。上述方法均规避了反应位移法中关于弹簧刚度的取值问题,提高了计算效率。本文以1个双跨箱形结构为例,用动力时程分析的计算结果作为校核,分析了强制反应位移法、反应加速度法和仅将土层加速度施加到土体中的简化分析方法在不同侧边距条件下的计算精度,再结合常用的反应位移法,对比分析了4种简化分析方法的误差。分析结果表明:使用强制反应位移法时,侧边距取为1倍结构宽度导致的误差最小,反应加速度法和仅在土体施加加速度的简化方法对侧边距取值不敏感,反应位移法在角点造成的误差最大。  相似文献   

简正模频率的地壳改正效应          下载免费PDF全文

张凌云  徐建桥  孙和平 《地球物理学报》2020,63(4):1332-1339

该文通过对CRUST2.0+PREM 16200个区域一维地球模型简正模频率的计算,得到简正模非线性地壳改正效应.结果表明:地壳改正的非线性化改正不可或缺,对于低频简正模,其影响较小;对于高频简正模,其影响较大,这一变化遵循能量密度函数分布规律.此外,该文将CRUST2.0网格数据展开成球谐函数,并在此基础上计算了地壳侧向非均匀导致的二阶谱峰分裂系数.将其与地幔对应系数比较得出:前者造成的简正模谱峰分裂通常远远小于后者;地壳造成的二阶谱峰分裂主要贡献来自于间断面地形起伏(地壳厚度等)而非地壳的侧向非均匀参数扰动;在反演地幔结构时必须扣除地壳对简正模谱峰分裂系数的影响.  相似文献   

深反射大炮揭示的青藏高原侧向碰撞带地壳骨架结构          下载免费PDF全文

酆少英  李秋生  邓小娟  李井元  熊小松  卢占武  李文辉  王晓冉  吴庆宇  石金虎 《地球物理学报》2020,63(3):828-839

青藏高原东南缘处于印度板块与欧亚板块碰撞的侧翼,揭示该地区的岩石圈结构有助于完整理解青藏高原碰撞造山的动力学过程,对构建大陆碰撞成矿理论框架至为关键.本研究对横过青藏高原侧向碰撞带的一条深反射地震剖面的15个大炮资料,进行了针对性静校正、去噪等处理和单次叠加成像,结果剖面显示了侧向碰撞带岩石圈结构的骨架特征:(1)双程走时(TWT)8～10s的强反射(Tc)将地壳分为上、下两层;Tc可能是大型滑脱构造的拆离面,其存在使上地壳的变形与下地壳解耦;(2)Moho间断面反射(Tm)为3～4个同相轴的窄带反射波组,横向不连续,与深大断裂交汇处被错断,但断距不大;(3)在兰坪—思茅地块下方TWT21s和扬子克拉通西缘下方TWT22～24s存在相向倾斜的反射波组(TL);以Tc、Tm和TL构成的骨架结构,定性地描绘出剖面下方岩石圈地幔以汇聚为主、地壳块体以侧向滑移为主和上地壳为薄皮逆冲或滑脱的分层动力学模式.该岩石圈变形样式明显不同于以正向碰撞挤压、地壳缩短垂向增厚为主的"冈底斯模式".  相似文献