A simplified approach is presented for the analysis of the settlement of vertically loaded pile groups. In order to simulate the nonlinear pile-to-pile interaction in pile groups, the soils along the piles are assumed...A simplified approach is presented for the analysis of the settlement of vertically loaded pile groups. In order to simulate the nonlinear pile-to-pile interaction in pile groups, the soils along the piles are assumed to behave as a series of nonlinear springs subjected to the shaft shear stress at the pile/soil interface. Considering the displacement reduction induced by the pile-to-pile interaction, the shear-deformation method is adopted to approximate the displacement field of the layered soils around the piles, and the equivalent stiffness of the springs is obtained. Furthermore, the load-settlement response of pile groups is deduced by modifying the load-transfer functions to account for the pile-to-pile interaction. The settlements of a laboratory pile groups computed by the presented approach are in a good agreement with measured results. The analysis on Contrastive parameters shows that the settlements of pile group decrease with the increase of the pile space and pile length, and the part of piles exceeding the critical pile length has little contribution to the beating capacity of the pile groups.展开更多
A simplified approach is presented to analyze the single pile settlement in multilayered soil. First, a fictitious soil-pile model is employed to consider the effect of layered soil beneath pile toe on pile settlement...A simplified approach is presented to analyze the single pile settlement in multilayered soil. First, a fictitious soil-pile model is employed to consider the effect of layered soil beneath pile toe on pile settlement behavior. Two approximation methods are proposed to simplify the nonlinear load transfer function and simulate the nonlinear compression of fictitious soil-pile, respectively. On this basis, an efficient program is developed. The procedures for determining the main parameters of mathematical model are discussed. Comparisons with two well-documented field experimental pile loading tests are conducted to verify the rationality of the present method. Further studies are also made to evaluate the practicability of the proposed approach when a soft substratum exists, and the results suggest that the proposed method can provide a constructive means for assessing the settlement of a single pile for use in engineering design.展开更多
Missiles may be damaged when aeroservoelastic problem occurs,which is caused by the interaction of structure flexibility and flight control system.Because of the limit of wind tunnel test condition,numerical methods a...Missiles may be damaged when aeroservoelastic problem occurs,which is caused by the interaction of structure flexibility and flight control system.Because of the limit of wind tunnel test condition,numerical methods are mostly used in previous aeroservoelastic studies.However,series of assumptions and simplification on structures,aerodynamics and flight control systems are unavoidably introduced,and various nonlinear factors are also ignored,therefore,they result in considerable errors.A novel method called aeroservoelasticity semi-physical simulation test is proposed in this paper,which takes the flexible missile with control system as the test object.Vibration signals at several locations of the missile are measured by accelerometers,then corresponding unsteady aerodynamics is computed based on the fact that airflow at high Mach is nearly quasi-steady,and finally unsteady aerodynamics is exerted simultaneously by shakers at certain locations of the missile.The aeroservoelasticity semi-physical simulation test system can be constructed after the control system is closed.Open loop transfer function test and closed loop stability test are carried out in sequence.The test principle and method proposed in this paper are verified by the concordance between the results of numerical simulation and experiment.展开更多
This paper concerns the disturbance rejection problem arising in the coordination control of a group of autonomous agents subject to external disturbances. The agent network is said to possess a desired level of distu...This paper concerns the disturbance rejection problem arising in the coordination control of a group of autonomous agents subject to external disturbances. The agent network is said to possess a desired level of disturbance rejection, if the H∞ norm of its transfer function matrix from the disturbance to the controlled output is satisfactorily small. Undirected graph is used to represent the information flow topology among agents. It is shown that the disturbance rejection problem of an agent network can be solved by analyzing the H∞ control problem of a set of independent systems whose dimensions are equal to that of a single node. An interesting result is that the disturbance rejection ability of the whole agent network coupled via feedback of merely relative measurements between agents will never be better than that of an isolated agent. To improve this, local feedback injections are applied to a small fraction of tile agents in the network. Some criteria for possible performance improvement are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, extensions to the case when communication time delays exist are also discussed.展开更多
基金Project(50708033) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProjects(200923, CXKJSF0108-2) supported by Transportation Technical Project of Hunan Province, China
文摘A simplified approach is presented for the analysis of the settlement of vertically loaded pile groups. In order to simulate the nonlinear pile-to-pile interaction in pile groups, the soils along the piles are assumed to behave as a series of nonlinear springs subjected to the shaft shear stress at the pile/soil interface. Considering the displacement reduction induced by the pile-to-pile interaction, the shear-deformation method is adopted to approximate the displacement field of the layered soils around the piles, and the equivalent stiffness of the springs is obtained. Furthermore, the load-settlement response of pile groups is deduced by modifying the load-transfer functions to account for the pile-to-pile interaction. The settlements of a laboratory pile groups computed by the presented approach are in a good agreement with measured results. The analysis on Contrastive parameters shows that the settlements of pile group decrease with the increase of the pile space and pile length, and the part of piles exceeding the critical pile length has little contribution to the beating capacity of the pile groups.
基金Project(51378464) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘A simplified approach is presented to analyze the single pile settlement in multilayered soil. First, a fictitious soil-pile model is employed to consider the effect of layered soil beneath pile toe on pile settlement behavior. Two approximation methods are proposed to simplify the nonlinear load transfer function and simulate the nonlinear compression of fictitious soil-pile, respectively. On this basis, an efficient program is developed. The procedures for determining the main parameters of mathematical model are discussed. Comparisons with two well-documented field experimental pile loading tests are conducted to verify the rationality of the present method. Further studies are also made to evaluate the practicability of the proposed approach when a soft substratum exists, and the results suggest that the proposed method can provide a constructive means for assessing the settlement of a single pile for use in engineering design.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 90716006,10902006)
文摘Missiles may be damaged when aeroservoelastic problem occurs,which is caused by the interaction of structure flexibility and flight control system.Because of the limit of wind tunnel test condition,numerical methods are mostly used in previous aeroservoelastic studies.However,series of assumptions and simplification on structures,aerodynamics and flight control systems are unavoidably introduced,and various nonlinear factors are also ignored,therefore,they result in considerable errors.A novel method called aeroservoelasticity semi-physical simulation test is proposed in this paper,which takes the flexible missile with control system as the test object.Vibration signals at several locations of the missile are measured by accelerometers,then corresponding unsteady aerodynamics is computed based on the fact that airflow at high Mach is nearly quasi-steady,and finally unsteady aerodynamics is exerted simultaneously by shakers at certain locations of the missile.The aeroservoelasticity semi-physical simulation test system can be constructed after the control system is closed.Open loop transfer function test and closed loop stability test are carried out in sequence.The test principle and method proposed in this paper are verified by the concordance between the results of numerical simulation and experiment.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants Nos. 10832006 and 60674093
文摘This paper concerns the disturbance rejection problem arising in the coordination control of a group of autonomous agents subject to external disturbances. The agent network is said to possess a desired level of disturbance rejection, if the H∞ norm of its transfer function matrix from the disturbance to the controlled output is satisfactorily small. Undirected graph is used to represent the information flow topology among agents. It is shown that the disturbance rejection problem of an agent network can be solved by analyzing the H∞ control problem of a set of independent systems whose dimensions are equal to that of a single node. An interesting result is that the disturbance rejection ability of the whole agent network coupled via feedback of merely relative measurements between agents will never be better than that of an isolated agent. To improve this, local feedback injections are applied to a small fraction of tile agents in the network. Some criteria for possible performance improvement are derived in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Finally, extensions to the case when communication time delays exist are also discussed.
