Pedogenetic soil horizons are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern soil classification;however,in soils of urban areas which are often strongly disturbed by human activities,horizons are diffcult to distin...Pedogenetic soil horizons are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern soil classification;however,in soils of urban areas which are often strongly disturbed by human activities,horizons are diffcult to distinguish but substitutive morphological layers may be identified.To identify the characteristic soil layers in an urban environment,224 soil layers of 36 in-situ pedons were examined and described in urban and suburban Nanjing,and 27 variables were extracted for multivariate analysis.Three groups and six subdivisions were identified by TwoStep cluster analysis combined with hierarchical cluster analysis based on factor scores.Soil forming factors and soil forming processes could be interpreted from the principal component analysis(PCA) of variables,cluster analysis of soil layers,and discriminant analysis of soil layer groups and their subdivisions.Parent materials,moisture regimes,organic matter accumulation,and especially nutrient accumulation were the main causes of characteristic soil layer formations.The numerical approaches used in this study were useful tools for characteristic soil layer identification of urban soils.展开更多
Buildings are always affected by frost heave and thaw settlement in cold regions,even where saline soil is present.This paper describes the triaxial testing results of frozen silty clay with high salt content and exam...Buildings are always affected by frost heave and thaw settlement in cold regions,even where saline soil is present.This paper describes the triaxial testing results of frozen silty clay with high salt content and examines the in-fluence of confining pressure and temperature on its mechanical characteristics.Conventional triaxial compression tests were conducted under different confining pressures(0.5–7.0 MPa)and temperatures(-6℃,-8℃,-10℃,and-12℃).The test results show that when the confining pressure is less than 1 MPa,the frozen saline silty clay is dominated by brittle behavior with the X-shaped dilatancy failure mode.As the confining pressure increases,the sample gradually transitions from brittle to plastic behavior.The strength of frozen saline silty clay rises first and then decreases with increasing confining pressure.The improved Duncan-Chang hyperbolic model can describe the stress-strain relationship of frozen saline silty clay.And the parabolic strength criterion can be used to describe the strength evolution of frozen saline silty clay.The function relation of strength parameters with temperature is obtained by fitting,and the results of the parabolic strength criterion are in good agreement with the experimental results,especially when confining pressure is less than 5 MPa.Therefore,the study has important guiding significance for design and construction when considering high salinity soil as an engineering material in cold regions.展开更多
The dynamic soil-tunnel interaction is studied by indirect boundary element method （IBEM）, using the model of a rigid tunnel in layered half-space, which is simplified to a single soil layer on elastic bedrock, subj...The dynamic soil-tunnel interaction is studied by indirect boundary element method （IBEM）, using the model of a rigid tunnel in layered half-space, which is simplified to a single soil layer on elastic bedrock, subjected to incident plane SH waves. The accuracy of the results is verified through comparison with the analytical solution. It is shown that soil-tunnel interaction in layered half-space is larger than that in homogeneous half-space and this interaction mechanism is essentially different from that of soil-foundation-superstructure interaction.展开更多
The dynamic soil-tunnel interaction is studied by the model of a rigid tunnel embedded in layered half-space, which is simplified as a single soil layer on elastic bedrock to the excitation of P- and SV-waves. The ind...The dynamic soil-tunnel interaction is studied by the model of a rigid tunnel embedded in layered half-space, which is simplified as a single soil layer on elastic bedrock to the excitation of P- and SV-waves. The indirect boundary element method is used, combined with the Green＇ s function of distributed loads acting on inclined lines. It is shown that the dynamic characteristics of soil-tunnel interaction in layered half-space are different much from that in homoge- neous half-space, and that the mechanism of soil-tunnel interaction is also different much from that of soil-founda- tion-superstructure interaction. For oblique incidence, the tunnel response for in-plane incident SV-waves is com- pletely different from that for incident SH-waves, while the tunnel response for vertically incident SV-wave is very similar to that of vertically incident SH-wave.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No40625001)the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NoKZCX2-YW-409)
文摘Pedogenetic soil horizons are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern soil classification;however,in soils of urban areas which are often strongly disturbed by human activities,horizons are diffcult to distinguish but substitutive morphological layers may be identified.To identify the characteristic soil layers in an urban environment,224 soil layers of 36 in-situ pedons were examined and described in urban and suburban Nanjing,and 27 variables were extracted for multivariate analysis.Three groups and six subdivisions were identified by TwoStep cluster analysis combined with hierarchical cluster analysis based on factor scores.Soil forming factors and soil forming processes could be interpreted from the principal component analysis(PCA) of variables,cluster analysis of soil layers,and discriminant analysis of soil layer groups and their subdivisions.Parent materials,moisture regimes,organic matter accumulation,and especially nutrient accumulation were the main causes of characteristic soil layer formations.The numerical approaches used in this study were useful tools for characteristic soil layer identification of urban soils.
基金the financial support provided by China’s Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (No. 2019QZKK0905)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41371090)the State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering,China University of Mining and Technology (No. SKLGDUEK1904)
文摘Buildings are always affected by frost heave and thaw settlement in cold regions,even where saline soil is present.This paper describes the triaxial testing results of frozen silty clay with high salt content and examines the in-fluence of confining pressure and temperature on its mechanical characteristics.Conventional triaxial compression tests were conducted under different confining pressures(0.5–7.0 MPa)and temperatures(-6℃,-8℃,-10℃,and-12℃).The test results show that when the confining pressure is less than 1 MPa,the frozen saline silty clay is dominated by brittle behavior with the X-shaped dilatancy failure mode.As the confining pressure increases,the sample gradually transitions from brittle to plastic behavior.The strength of frozen saline silty clay rises first and then decreases with increasing confining pressure.The improved Duncan-Chang hyperbolic model can describe the stress-strain relationship of frozen saline silty clay.And the parabolic strength criterion can be used to describe the strength evolution of frozen saline silty clay.The function relation of strength parameters with temperature is obtained by fitting,and the results of the parabolic strength criterion are in good agreement with the experimental results,especially when confining pressure is less than 5 MPa.Therefore,the study has important guiding significance for design and construction when considering high salinity soil as an engineering material in cold regions.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 51378384Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin Municipality under Grant 12JCZDJC29000
文摘The dynamic soil-tunnel interaction is studied by indirect boundary element method （IBEM）, using the model of a rigid tunnel in layered half-space, which is simplified to a single soil layer on elastic bedrock, subjected to incident plane SH waves. The accuracy of the results is verified through comparison with the analytical solution. It is shown that soil-tunnel interaction in layered half-space is larger than that in homogeneous half-space and this interaction mechanism is essentially different from that of soil-foundation-superstructure interaction.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51378384)the Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin Municipality(No. 12JCZDJC29000)
文摘The dynamic soil-tunnel interaction is studied by the model of a rigid tunnel embedded in layered half-space, which is simplified as a single soil layer on elastic bedrock to the excitation of P- and SV-waves. The indirect boundary element method is used, combined with the Green＇ s function of distributed loads acting on inclined lines. It is shown that the dynamic characteristics of soil-tunnel interaction in layered half-space are different much from that in homoge- neous half-space, and that the mechanism of soil-tunnel interaction is also different much from that of soil-founda- tion-superstructure interaction. For oblique incidence, the tunnel response for in-plane incident SV-waves is com- pletely different from that for incident SH-waves, while the tunnel response for vertically incident SV-wave is very similar to that of vertically incident SH-wave.
