Recent progresses in studies on wave-current loads on foundation structure with piles and slab

The foundation structure with piles and slab is widely used in offshore wind farm construction in shallow water. Experimental studies on the hydrodynamic loads acting on the piles and slab under irregular waves and currents are summarized with discussion on the effects of pile grouping on the wave forces and wave impact loads on the slab locating near the free surface. By applying the theoretical solution of the wave diffracted by the slab and using the Morison equation to evaluate the wave force on the piles, the effects of the slab on the wave forces acting on the piles are analyzed. Based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations and the volume of fluid (VOF) method, a numerical wave basin is developed to simulate the wave-structure interaction. The computed maximum wave force on the foundation structure with piles and slab agrees well with the measured data. The violent deformation, breaking, and run-up of the wave around the structure are presented and discussed. Further work on the turbulent flow structures and large deformation of the free surface due to interaction of the waves and foundation structures of offshore wind farms needs more efficient approaches for evaluating hydrodynamic loads under the effects of nonlinear waves and currents.     

耦合路面损伤的车辆随机动荷载特性研究

为准确分析车辆对不平整路面作用的实际动荷载,在传统计算方法的基础上,进一步考虑了永久变形和平整度劣化等路面损伤累积的影响,提出了耦合损伤的车辆随机动荷载分析方法.通过计算轴载作用下路面各点的永久变形,推导路面不平整度的更新方程,将其引入车-路系统动力方程,采用Matlab编制求解程序,即可得到任意时间路面各点受到的车辆随机动荷载序列.基于该方法分析了车辆随机动荷载沿轮迹的分布变化,研究了随机动荷载系数随轴次的演化规律.结果 表明,车辆随机动荷载是随时间逐渐增大的动态演化过程,其沿轮迹的分布具有空间可重复性,随着轴载作用,动荷载的离散程度增大,将引起路面各点的损伤累积差异增大;而车辆行驶速度越低,新建路面越不平整,动荷载随时间演化速率越快,对路面造成的损伤越大.     

温度循环载荷对柔性接头界面损伤的影响

固体火箭发动机在生产、运输和储存的过程中会受到环境湿热和老化载荷的作用,导致柔性接头界面的力学性能产生退化.为研究柔性接头界面力学性能退化对界面损伤的影响规律,基于双线性内聚力模型建立了一种描述界面力学性能退化的数学模型.以某柔性接头为研究对象,为便于研究,以温度循环载荷代替环境老化载荷开展了界面损伤分析,并采用ABA...     

循环爆破开挖下隧道围岩振动效应与损伤演化的模型实验

针对推进式循环爆破开挖下隧道围岩振动效应与损伤演化问题,按照相似比理论进行模型实验研究,实验模型采用1:15比例浇筑制成。通过模拟隧道推进式循环爆破开挖方式,以同一测点处爆破前后岩体声速变化评价隧道围岩损伤程度,探寻爆破参量变化对振动效应的影响,探索围岩损伤演化与爆破次数之间的关系。研究结果表明:在最大段药量大致相同情况下,起爆段数对萨道夫斯基公式的介质系数K影响很小,而对萨道夫斯基公式的衰减系数α影响较大;隧道在推进式循环爆破开挖下,同一深度距离爆区相同的测点,其声速降低率存在较大差异,围岩的爆破损伤范围在深度和广度方面均具有典型的各向异性特征;当爆炸参量基本相同时,不同循环爆破开挖下测点的累积声速降低率呈非线性增长趋势;在推进式循环爆破加载下,围岩爆破累积损伤量D与爆破次数n之间存在非线性演化特性,不同的测点具有各自的爆破累积损伤扩展模型,距离爆源越近爆破损伤扩展越快,围岩爆破累积损伤效应具有典型的非线性演化特性和各向异性特征。     

近爆荷载作用下装配式钢筋混凝土柱抗爆性能及受损加固试验研究

为研究近爆荷载作用下装配式钢筋混凝土（precast concrete,PC）柱的抗爆性能与受损后的加固修复性能,开展了足尺PC柱化爆试验与受损柱加固修复轴压试验研究。共开展了3次化爆试验,获得了PC柱的动力响应与损伤破坏试验数据,分析了PC柱与现浇钢筋混凝土（reinforced concrete, RC）柱试验结果的差异。近爆荷载作用下,PC柱呈现出局部损伤破坏模式,爆心附近混凝土剥落,出现斜裂缝,装配位置的交界面出现贯穿裂缝,锚浆搭接PC柱比灌浆套筒PC柱的损伤更加严重。两种装配形式的PC柱整体上具有与RC柱相近的抗爆性能,但装配界面削弱了PC柱的整体性与抗剪切能力,是PC柱典型的薄弱位置。轴压试验结果表明,分别采用置换混凝土和置换后外包碳纤维增强复合材料(carbon fiber reinforcement polymer, CFRP)布的方式加固受损的两根PC柱,其轴向承载力均超过了同规格未受损柱的试验承载力和设计承载力。

     

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE MODEL OF UNSATURATED EXPANSIVE SOIL AND ITS APPLICATION IN MULTI-FIELD COUPLE ANALYSIS ON EXPANSIVE SOIL SLOPE

Focused on the sensitivity to climate change and the special mechanical characteristics of undisturbed expansive soil, an elastc-plastic damage constitutive model was proposed based on the mechanics of unsaturated soil and the mechanics of damage. Undisturbed expansive soil was considered as a compound of non-damaged part and damaged part. The behavior of the non-damaged part was described using non-linear constitutive model of unsaturated soil. The property of the damaged part was described using a damage evolution equation and two yield surfaces, i.e., loading yield (LY) and shear yield (SY). Furthermore, a consolidation model for unsaturated undisturbed expansive soil was established and a FEM program named UESEPDC was designed. Numerical analysis on solid-liquid-gas tri-phases and multi-field couple problem was conducted for four stages and fields of stress, displacement, pore water pressure, pore air pressure, water content, suction, and the damage region as well as plastic region in an expansive soil slope were obtained.     

Effect of adhesive thickness,adhesive type and scarf angle on the mechanical properties of scarf adhesive joints

The effects of adhesive thickness, adhesive type and scarf angle, which are determined as the main control parameters by the dimensional analysis, on the mechanical properties of a scarf adhesive joint (SJ) subjected to uniaxial tensile loading are examined using a mixed-mode cohesive zone model (CZM) with a bilinear shape to govern the interface separation. Particularly, the adhesive-dependence of the vital cohesive parameters of CZM, which mainly include initial stiffness, total fracture energy and separation strength, is introduced emphatically. The numerical results demonstrate that the ultimate tensile loading increases as the adhesive thickness decreases. Cross the ultimate tension, the joint loses the load-bearing capacity when adopting the brittle adhesive but sustains partial load-bearing capacity while selecting the ductile adhesive. In addition, for the joint with the ductile adhesive, the maximum applied displacement until the complete failure of it is directly proportional to the adhesive thickness, which is different from the case using the brittle adhesive. Taking the combination of the ultimate loading and applied displacement into account, failure energy is employed to evaluate the joint performances. The results show that the failure energy of the joint with the brittle adhesive increases as the adhesive thickness decreases. Conversely, the situation of the joint using the ductile adhesive is vice versa. Moreover, the effect of the adhesive thickness becomes more noticeable with decreasing the scarf angle owing to the variation of the proportion of each component of the mixed-mode. Furthermore, all the characteristic parameters (the ultimate tensile loading, the maximum applied displacement and the failure energy) that adopted to describe the performances of SJ increase as the scarf angle decreases. Finally, the numerical method employed in this study is validated by comparing with existing experimental results.