Numerical analysis of the isolation of the vibration due to Rayleigh waves by using pile rows in the poroelastic medium

The isolation of the vibration due to harmonic Rayleigh waves using pile rows embedded in a saturated poroelastic half-space is investigated in this study. Based on Biot’s theory and the potential function method, the free field solution for Rayleigh waves along the surface of the poroelastic half-space is derived first. The fundamental solution for a harmonic circular patch load applied in the poroelastic half-space are obtained in terms of Biot’s theory and the integral transform method. Using Muki’s method and the fundamental solution for the circular patch load as well as the Rayleigh waves solution for the poroelastic half-space, the second kind of Fredholm integral equations in the frequency domain for pile rows are derived. Numerical solution of the integral equations yields the dynamic response of the pile–soil system to incident Rayleigh waves. Influences of various parameters on the vibration isolation effect of piles rows are investigated numerically. Numerical results suggest that for the same vibration source, the same pile rows will produce a better vibration isolation effect for the poroelastic medium than for a single phase elastic medium. Also, stiffer piles tend to have better vibration isolation effect than flexible piles. Moreover, the pile length and the spacing between neighboring piles in each pile row have significant influence on the vibration isolation effect of pile rows.     

Effects of the dynamic wheel–rail interaction on the ground vibration generated by a moving train

Based on Biot’s fully dynamic poroelastic theory, the dynamic responses of the poroelastic half-space soil medium due to quasi-static and dynamic loads from a moving train are investigated semi-analytically. The dynamic loads are assumed to be generated from the rail surface irregularities. The vehicle dynamics model is used to simulate the axle loads (quasi-static loads) and the dynamic loads from a moving train. The compatibility of the displacements at wheel–rail contact points couple the vehicle and the track–ground subsystem, and yield equations for the dynamic wheel–rail loads. A linearized Hertzian contact spring between the wheel and rail is introduced to calculate the dynamic loads. Using the Fourier transform, the governing equations for the poroelastic half-space are then solved in the frequency–wavenumber domain. The time domain responses are evaluated by the fast inverse Fourier transform. Numerical results show that the dynamic loads can make important contribution to dynamic response of the poroelastic half-space for different train speed, and the dynamically induced responses lie in a higher frequency range. The ground vibrations caused by the moving train can be intensified as the primary suspension stiffness of the vehicle increases.     

高速移动简谐荷载下层状多孔饱和固体的动力响应

本文研究了匀速移动的振动荷载作用下层状多孔饱和固体的动力响应。应用Fourier变换求解该问题的控制偏微分方程,首先考虑了荷载的移动速度及振动频率对单层多孔饱和固体中应力与孔隙水压力的影响,并与相应的弹性介质的解答和半平面解答进行了比较;然后运用精确刚度矩阵法求解了层状多孔饱和固体的应力响应,并与单层问题进行了比较。结果显示层状多孔饱和固体中应力和孔隙水压力随荷载的移动速度的增加而明显变化,层状多孔饱和固体在移动荷载下的动力响应与相应的单相弹性固体和半平面固体的动力响应有较大的差别。     

A wavenumber domain boundary element model for the vibration isolation via a new type of pile structure: linked pile rows

In this study, a new kind of pile structure, namely linked periodic pile rows, is proposed for the vibration isolation facility. The proposed linked periodic pile rows consist of pile rows with pile tops rigidly linked by beams. To investigate the vibration isolation effect of linked pile rows, a numerical model is developed for the simulation of the dynamic response of linked pile rows. To address the pile–soil interaction problem, based on the sequence Fourier transform method, a wavenumber domain boundary element method is developed for the pile–soil system. The beams linking the pile tops are dealt with by the bar and beam vibrational theories. By using the coupling conditions between the pile tops and linking beams as well as the periodicity condition for the beam–pile–soil system, the complementary equations for the system are established. With the proposed model, the vibration isolation effects of the linked pile rows are investigated and compared with those of free pile rows. The comparison indicates that linked pile rows usually yield a better isolation vibration effect than free pile rows. Hence, linked pile rows are a more effective wave barrier for vibration isolation than free pile rows.     

Response of railway track system on poroelastic half-space soil medium subjected to a moving train load

Based on the dynamic poroelastic theory of Biot, dynamic responses of a track system and poroelastic half-space soil medium subjected to moving train passages are investigated by the substructure method. The whole system is divided into two separately formulated substructures, the track and the ground, and the rail is described by introducing the Green function for an infinitely long Euler beam subjected to the action of moving axle loads of the train and the reactions of the sleeper. Sleepers are represented by a continuous mass and the effect of the ballast is considered by introducing the Cosserat model for granular medium. Using the double Fourier transform, the governing equations of motion are then solved analytically in the frequency-wave-number domain. The time domain responses are evaluated by the inverse Fourier transform computation for a certain train speed. Computed results show that the shape of the rail displacements of the elastic and poroelastic soil medium are in good agreement with each other of the low train velocity, but the result of the poroelastic soil medium is significantly different to that of the elastic soil medium for the high train velocity which is higher than Rayleigh-wave speed in the soil. The influence of the soil intrinsic permeability on soil responses is discussed with great care in both time domain and frequency domain. The dynamic responses of the soil medium are considerably affected by the fluid phase as well as the load velocity.     

A half-space saturated poro-elastic medium subjected to a moving point load

In this paper, an analytical solution for the dynamic response of a half-space porous medium subjected to a moving point load is derived. In the model, the displacements of the solid skeleton and the pore pressure are expressed in terms of two scalar potentials and one vectorial potential. Based on Biot’s theory, the frequency domain Holmholtz equations for the potentials are derived through the Fourier transformation with respect to time. The general solutions for the potentials are derived through the Fourier transformation with respect to the horizontal coordinates. Numerical results suggest that moving loads have very complicated effects on the dynamic response of the porous medium. Generally speaking, a moving load with a high speed will generate a larger response in the porous medium than a static or a lower speed load.     

Wavelet approach to vibratory analysis of surface due to a load moving in the layer

The paper analyses theoretically the surface vibration induced by a point load moving uniformly along a infinitely long beam embedded in a two-dimensional viscoelastic layer. The beam is placed parallel to the traction-free surface and the layer under the beam is assumed to be a half space. The response due to a harmonically varying load is investigated for different load frequencies. The influence of the layer damping and moving load speed on the level of vibrations at the surface is analysed and analytical closed form solutions in the integral form for the displacement amplitude and the amplitude spectra are derived. Approximate displacement values depending on Young’s modulus and mass density of layers are obtained. The mathematical model is described by the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation, Navier’s elastodynamic equation of motion for the elastic medium and appropriate boundary and continuity conditions. A special approximation method based on the wavelet theory is used for calculation of the displacements at the surface.     

高速移动荷载下黏弹性半空间体的动力响应

分别以移动荷载和黏弹性半空间体模拟运动列车荷载和地基,分析了地基在运动列车作用下的动力响应.首先采用Green函数法求解黏弹性半空间体在各种移动荷载模式作用下的动力响应的解析解,包括恒常和简谐移动点源、线源和面源荷载.然后采用IFFT算法和自适应数值积分算法计算解析解中的二维积分,得到了包括低音速、跨音速和超音速移动荷载作用下位移的数值结果.最后分析了速度对位移的分布和最大值的影响,发现当速度大于Rayleigh波速时,位移发生显著变化.     

Dynamic Green’s Functions for an Anisotropic Multilayered Poroelastic Half-Space

The dynamic responses of an anisotropic multilayered poroelastic half-space to a point load or a fluid source are studied based on Stroh formalism and Fourier transforms. Taking the boundary conditions and the continuity of the materials into consideration, the three-dimensional Green’s functions of generalized concentrated forces (force and fluid source) applied at the free surface, interface and in the interior of a layer are derived in the Fourier transformed domain, respectively. The actual solutions in the frequency domain can further be acquired by inverting the Fourier transform. Finally, numerical examples are carried out to verify the presented theory and discuss the Green’s fields due to three cases of a concentrated force or a fluid source applied at three different locations for an anisotropic multilayered poroelastic half-space.

     

Ground vibration due to a high-speed moving harmonic rectangular load on a poroviscoelastic half-space

The transmission of vibrations in the ground, due to a high-speed moving vertical harmonic rectangular load, is investigated theoretically. The problem is three-dimensional and the interior of the ground is modelled as a totally or partially saturated porous viscoelastic half-space, using the complete Biot theory. The solutions in the transformed domain are obtained using a double Fourier transform on the surface spatial variables. A modified hysteretic damping model defined in the wavenumber domain is used, first presented by Lefeuve-Mesgouez et al. [Lefeuve-Mesgouez, G., Le Houédec, D., Peplow, A.T., 2000. Vibration in the vicinity of a high-speed moving harmonic strip load. Journal of Sound and Vibration 231(5) 1289–1309]. Numerical results for the displacements of the solid and fluid phases, over the surface of the ground and in depth, are presented for loads moving with speeds up to and beyond the Rayleigh wave speed of the medium.     

饱和土中端承桩纵向振动特性研究

基于饱和多孔介质理论研究了三维轴对称条件下端承桩在饱和土中的纵向耦合振动. 首先通 过引入势函数对Biot动力固结方程解耦，采用算子分解方法及分离变量法求得饱和土层振动 解，进而利用桩土完全耦合条件得到桩土系统定解. 然后对桩顶的频率和时域响应进行参数 研究，结果表明，桩的长径比和桩土模量比对桩顶动力响应有较大影响，而渗透力对其影响 较小. 最后将幅频及时域反射波理论拟合结果与桩基实测结果加以对比，结果表明理论曲线 与实测曲线规律一致.     

移动荷载下上覆弹性板饱和地基的动力响应

用半解析法对移动条形荷载作用下上覆弹性板饱和两相弹性介质的动力响应问题进行了研究。由忽略土粒压缩和土体自重的Biot波动方程出发,对荷载进行Fourier展开。假设响应函数形式,利用待定系数法求解了考虑固液耦合作用的两相介质在移动荷载作用下的土体位移,有效应力及孔压表达式。求解过程中考虑了土体和弹性板之间的相互作用,并假设土体与弹性板的竖向位移相等。通过计算给出了各参数对土体位移和孔压响应和的影响。数值结果表明弹性梁刚度对位移和孔压响应有较大影响。     

Influence of sliding interfaces on the response of a layered viscoelastic medium under a moving load

This article presents a method to compute the response of a viscoelastic layered half-space to a moving load when interlayer slip is considered. The Navier equations of equilibrium are solved for each layer in the frequency domain. The solution in the spatial coordinate system is subsequently obtained by means of Fast Fourier Transform and quadrature rules applied to integrable singularities. Following the global solution technique, the developed method compiles all the interface and the boundary conditions within a global matrix and it solves a unique linear system per couple of wave numbers. This method proves to be effective and is validated in an elastic case by comparison with the ALIZE-LCPC software that implements the Burmister axisymmetric solution. The influence of the interface sliding condition on the response of a layered viscoelastic medium is studied through an application to pavement structures. In this application, the effect of the load speed on vertical and horizontal profiles of the longitudinal strain and the normal stress is analyzed. It is shown, inter alia, that the maximum extension in the medium is not systematically observed at the location of an interface and that, as expected, low speeds and interlayer slip are more damaging to the structure when either a strain or a stress criterion is considered.     

DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF A DOUBLE-LAYERED SUBGRADE WITH ROCK SUBSTRATUM TO A MOVING POINT LOAD

In this paper, an analytical solution for the dynamic response of a double-layered subgrade with rock substratum to a moving point load is derived. The subgrade profile is divided into two layers. The upper layer is modeled by an elastic medium and the lower layer by a fully saturated poroelastic medium governed by Biot’s theory. In the meanwhile, the subgrade is resting on the rock substratum. The analytical solutions for stress, displacement and pore pressure are derived by using the Fourier transform. Numerical results obtained by using the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) are used to analyze the influence of the moving load velocity, the thickness of an elastic medium layer and a fully saturated poroelastic medium layer on the dynamic response.     

Dynamic effects of moving load on a poroelastic soil medium by an approximate method

The problem of the dynamic response of a fully saturated poroelastic soil stratum on bedrock subjected to a moving load is studied by using the theory of Mei and Foda under conditions of plane strain. The applied load is considered to be the sum of a large number of harmonics with varying frequency in the form of a Fourier expansion. The method of solution considers the total field to be approximated by the superposition of an elastodynamic problem with modified elastic constants and mass density for the whole domain and a diffusion problem for the pore fluid pressure confined to a boundary layer near the free surface of the medium. Both problems are solved analytically in the frequency domain. The effects of the shear modulus, permeability and porosity of the soil medium and the velocity of the moving load on the dynamic response of the soil layer are numerically evaluated and compared with those obtained by the exact solution of the problem. It is concluded that for fine poroelastic materials, the accuracy of the present method against the exact one is excellent.     

An explicit time domain solution for ground stratum response to harmonic moving load

Based on the thin layer method originally proposed in frequency domain, an explicit time domain semi–analytical solution has been developed for simulating three-dimensional layered ground responses to harmonic moving loads. The Fourier–Laplace transforms were applied to derive the transformed solution that satisfied the boundary conditions of horizontal infinities. The eigenvalue decomposition was performed with respect to Laplace parameter to express the ground motion corresponding to the eigenmodes. The formulation for each eigenmode incorporating the moving load expression was transformed back into time domain analytically, and the global system responses were given by means of the general mode superposition method. The proposed explicit time domain solution is suitable for studying various types of moving load acting on or inside the ground. In this paper a moving harmonic load with rectangular distribution was adopted to demonstrate the ground response simulation. Two illustrative examples for moving load with speeds below or above the ground Rayleigh wave velocity were presented to test the computational accuracy and efficiency of the proposed approach. A parametric study was also performed to investigate the influences of soil properties on the ground responses.The project is partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50538010). The English text was polished by Yunming Chen.     

Layer-element analysis of multilayered saturated soils subject to axisymmetric vertical time-harmonic excitation

The analytical layer-elements for a single poroelastic soil layer and the underlying half-space are established using an algebraic manipulation and Hankel transform. According to the boundary conditions and adjacent continuity conditions of general stresses and displacements, a global matrix equation in the transform domain for multilayered saturated soil media is assembled and solved. Solutions in the frequency domain can be further obtained with an inverse Hankel transform. Numerical examples are used to examine accuracy of the present method and demonstrate effects of soil parameters and load conditions on dynamic responses of the multilayered poroelastic saturated soils.     

受移动简谐力作用的多孔弹性半平面问题

研究了匀速移动的振动荷载作用下半无限多孔饱和固体中产生的应力和孔隙水压力．应用Fourier变换求解该问题的控制偏微分方程,考虑了荷载的移动速度及振动频率对多孔饱和固体中应力与孔隙水压力的影响,并与相应的弹性介质的解答进行了比较．结果显示多孔饱和半平面中应力和孔隙水压力随荷载的移动速度与振动频率的增加而增大,多孔饱和固体在移动荷载下的动力响应与相应的单相弹性固体的动力响应有较大的差别。     

饱和地基上基础动力阻抗函数的一种分析方法

提出了一种基础阻抗函数的时域求解方法, 并用于饱和地基情形. 通过给基础输入脉冲位移, 应用集中质量显式有限元方法结合局部透射人工边界, 得到地基施加于基础的反力时程, 然后根据阻抗函数的定义, 应用傅立叶变换求得基础阻抗函数. 通过算例, 与 Halpern 的结果进行了对比, 验证了该方法的有效性. 并以一方形基础为例, 分别讨论了泊松比、孔隙率、渗透系数和埋深对无量纲动力柔度的影响. 与以往方法相比, 该方法可以考虑复杂地基情形和不规则基础形式.      

Dynamic response of an axially loaded rigid sphere embedded in a saturated poroelastic medium

In this paper, an analytical solution for the response of a rigid sphere embedded in a full space poroelastic medium subjected to a dynamic lateral load is derived. The solution is obtained using Biots theory for acoustic waves. In this solution, the displacements of the solid skeleton and the pore pressure are expressed in terms of three scalar potentials. These potentials correspond to the wave velocities of the slow and fast compressional waves and to the shear wave. The governing equation for the dynamic motion is expressed in the frequency domain using Fourier transformation. Different boundary and load conditions were investigated. Curves showing variation in the fluid pressure and solid displacements with the loads frequency were plotted in non-dimensional forms.