Abutment piles in soft ground may be subjected to both vertical and horizontal soil movements resulting from approach embankment loads. To constrain the soil movements, the soft soil ground beneath the approach embank...Abutment piles in soft ground may be subjected to both vertical and horizontal soil movements resulting from approach embankment loads. To constrain the soil movements, the soft soil ground beneath the approach embankment is often improved using composite pile foundations, which aim at mitigating the bump induced by high-speed trains passing through the bridge. So far, there is limited literature on exploring the influence of the degree of ground improvement on abutment piles installed in soft soil grounds. In this paper, a series of three-dimensional （3D） centrifuge model tests was performed on an approach embankment over a silty clay deposit improved by cement-fly ash-gravel （CFG） piles combined with geogrid. Emphasis is placed on the effects of ground replacement ratio （m） on the responses of the abutment piles induced by embankment loads. Meanwhile, a numerical study was conducted with varying ground replacement ratio of the pile-reinforced grounds. Results show that the performance of the abutment piles is significantly improved when reinforcing the ground with CFG piles beneath the approach embankment. Interestingly, there is a threshold value of the replacement ratio of around 4.9% above which the effect of CFG pile foundations is limited. This implies that it is essential to optimize the ground improvement for having a cost-effective design while minimizing the risk of the bump at the end of bridge.展开更多
Nucleation sites of α-Al grains after addition of an Al-Ti-B master alloy into pure aluminium have been investigated using EPMA. The results show that either TiAl3 or boride particales can nucleate α-Al grains. But ...Nucleation sites of α-Al grains after addition of an Al-Ti-B master alloy into pure aluminium have been investigated using EPMA. The results show that either TiAl3 or boride particales can nucleate α-Al grains. But the number of TiAl3 nucleants is reduced with the holding time prolonged and the boride-nuclei are increasing gradually. Based on these results, a new refining method, adding molten Al-Ti-B into commercially pure aluminium, which has a quicker and better refining efficiency is presented.展开更多
In the context of tensor network states,we for the first time reformulate the corner transfer matrix renormalization group(CTMRG)method into a variational bilevel optimization algorithm.The solution of the optimizatio...In the context of tensor network states,we for the first time reformulate the corner transfer matrix renormalization group(CTMRG)method into a variational bilevel optimization algorithm.The solution of the optimization problem corresponds to the fixed-point environment pursued in the conventional CTMRG method,from which the partition function of a classical statistical model,represented by an infinite tensor network,can be efficiently evaluated.The validity of this variational idea is demonstrated by the high-precision calculation of the residual entropy of the dimer model,and is further verified by investigating several typical phase transitions in classical spin models,where the obtained critical points and critical exponents all agree with the best known results in literature.Its extension to three-dimensional tensor networks or quantum lattice models is straightforward,as also discussed briefly.展开更多
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文摘Abutment piles in soft ground may be subjected to both vertical and horizontal soil movements resulting from approach embankment loads. To constrain the soil movements, the soft soil ground beneath the approach embankment is often improved using composite pile foundations, which aim at mitigating the bump induced by high-speed trains passing through the bridge. So far, there is limited literature on exploring the influence of the degree of ground improvement on abutment piles installed in soft soil grounds. In this paper, a series of three-dimensional （3D） centrifuge model tests was performed on an approach embankment over a silty clay deposit improved by cement-fly ash-gravel （CFG） piles combined with geogrid. Emphasis is placed on the effects of ground replacement ratio （m） on the responses of the abutment piles induced by embankment loads. Meanwhile, a numerical study was conducted with varying ground replacement ratio of the pile-reinforced grounds. Results show that the performance of the abutment piles is significantly improved when reinforcing the ground with CFG piles beneath the approach embankment. Interestingly, there is a threshold value of the replacement ratio of around 4.9% above which the effect of CFG pile foundations is limited. This implies that it is essential to optimize the ground improvement for having a cost-effective design while minimizing the risk of the bump at the end of bridge.
文摘Nucleation sites of α-Al grains after addition of an Al-Ti-B master alloy into pure aluminium have been investigated using EPMA. The results show that either TiAl3 or boride particales can nucleate α-Al grains. But the number of TiAl3 nucleants is reduced with the holding time prolonged and the boride-nuclei are increasing gradually. Based on these results, a new refining method, adding molten Al-Ti-B into commercially pure aluminium, which has a quicker and better refining efficiency is presented.
基金supported by the National R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0302900)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11774420 and 12134020)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Grant No. 851204035)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China (Grant No. 20XNLG19)
文摘In the context of tensor network states,we for the first time reformulate the corner transfer matrix renormalization group(CTMRG)method into a variational bilevel optimization algorithm.The solution of the optimization problem corresponds to the fixed-point environment pursued in the conventional CTMRG method,from which the partition function of a classical statistical model,represented by an infinite tensor network,can be efficiently evaluated.The validity of this variational idea is demonstrated by the high-precision calculation of the residual entropy of the dimer model,and is further verified by investigating several typical phase transitions in classical spin models,where the obtained critical points and critical exponents all agree with the best known results in literature.Its extension to three-dimensional tensor networks or quantum lattice models is straightforward,as also discussed briefly.
