The stress field in granular soils heap(including piled coal) will have a non-negligible impact on the settlement of the underlying soils. It is usually obtained by measurements and numerical simulations.Because the f...The stress field in granular soils heap(including piled coal) will have a non-negligible impact on the settlement of the underlying soils. It is usually obtained by measurements and numerical simulations.Because the former method is not reliable as pressure cells instrumented on the interface between piled coal and the underlying soft soil do not work well, results from numerical methods alone are necessary to be doubly checked with one more method before they are extended to more complex cases. The generalized stress field in granular soils heap is analyzed with Rayleighe Ritz method. The problem is divided into two cases: case A without horizontal constraint on the base and case B with horizontal constraint on the base. In both cases, the displacement functions u(x, y) and v(x, y) are assumed to be cubic polynomials with 12 undetermined parameters, which will satisfy the Cauchy’s partial differential equations, generalized Hooke’s law and boundary equations. A function is built with the Rayleighe Ritz method according to the principle of minimum potential energy, and the problem is converted into solving two undetermined parameters through the variation of the function, while the other parameters are expressed in terms of these two parameters. By comparison of results from the Rayleighe Ritz method and numerical simulations, it is demonstrated that the Rayleighe Ritz method is feasible to study the generalized stress field in granular soils heap. Solutions from numerical methods are verified before being extended to more complicated cases.展开更多
A new method is put forward for structural damage identification based on the homotopy continuation algorithm. A numerical example is presented to verify the method. The beams with different damage locations and diffe...A new method is put forward for structural damage identification based on the homotopy continuation algorithm. A numerical example is presented to verify the method. The beams with different damage locations and different damage extents are identified by this method. The numerical examples have proved that this new method is capable of easy convergence, which is not sensitive to the initial iterative values. It is effective for accurately identifying multiple damages. By incorporating the finite element method into the homotopy continuation algorithm, the damage identifying ability of the new method can be greatly enhanced.展开更多
文摘The stress field in granular soils heap(including piled coal) will have a non-negligible impact on the settlement of the underlying soils. It is usually obtained by measurements and numerical simulations.Because the former method is not reliable as pressure cells instrumented on the interface between piled coal and the underlying soft soil do not work well, results from numerical methods alone are necessary to be doubly checked with one more method before they are extended to more complex cases. The generalized stress field in granular soils heap is analyzed with Rayleighe Ritz method. The problem is divided into two cases: case A without horizontal constraint on the base and case B with horizontal constraint on the base. In both cases, the displacement functions u(x, y) and v(x, y) are assumed to be cubic polynomials with 12 undetermined parameters, which will satisfy the Cauchy’s partial differential equations, generalized Hooke’s law and boundary equations. A function is built with the Rayleighe Ritz method according to the principle of minimum potential energy, and the problem is converted into solving two undetermined parameters through the variation of the function, while the other parameters are expressed in terms of these two parameters. By comparison of results from the Rayleighe Ritz method and numerical simulations, it is demonstrated that the Rayleighe Ritz method is feasible to study the generalized stress field in granular soils heap. Solutions from numerical methods are verified before being extended to more complicated cases.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.50238040).
文摘A new method is put forward for structural damage identification based on the homotopy continuation algorithm. A numerical example is presented to verify the method. The beams with different damage locations and different damage extents are identified by this method. The numerical examples have proved that this new method is capable of easy convergence, which is not sensitive to the initial iterative values. It is effective for accurately identifying multiple damages. By incorporating the finite element method into the homotopy continuation algorithm, the damage identifying ability of the new method can be greatly enhanced.
