Longitudinal vibration characteristics of a tapered pipe pile considering the vertical support of surrounding soil and construction disturbance

This research is concentrated on the longitudinal vibration of a tapered pipe pile considering the vertical support of the surrounding soil and construction disturbance.First,the pile-soil system is partitioned into finite segments in the vertical direction and the Voigt model is applied to simulate the vertical support of the surrounding soil acting on the pile segment.The surrounding soil is divided into finite ring-shaped zones in the radial direction to consider the construction disturbance.Then,the shear complex stiffness at the pile-soil interface is derived by solving the dynamic equilibrium equation for the soil from the outermost to innermost zone.The displacement impedance at the top of an arbitrary pile segment is obtained by solving the dynamic equilibrium equation for the pile and is combined with the vertical support of the surrounding soil to derive the displacement impedance at the bottom of the upper adjacent segment.Further,the displacement impedance at the pile head is obtained based on the impedance function transfer technique.Finally,the reliability of the proposed solution is verified,followed by a sensitivity analysis concerning the coupling effect of the pile parameters,construction disturbance and the vertical support of the surrounding soil on the displacement impedance of the pile.

On internal resonance analysis of a double-cable-stayed shallowarch model with elastic supports at both ends

In previous research on the nonlinear dynamics of cable-stayed bridges,boundary conditions were not properly modeled in the modeling.In order to obtain the nonlinear dynamics of cable-stayed bridges more accurately,a double-cable-stayed shallow-arch model with elastic supports at both ends and the initial configuration of bridge deck included in the modeling is developed in this study.The in-plane eigenvalue problems of the model are solved by dividing the shallow arch(SA)into three partitions according to the number of cables and the piecewise functions are taken as trial functions of the SA.Then,the in-plane one-toone-to-one internal resonance among the global mode and the local modes(two cables’modes)is investigated when external primary resonance occurs.The ordinary differential equations(ODEs)are obtained by Galerkin’s method and solved by the method of multiple time scales.The stable equilibrium solutions of modulation equations are obtained by using the NewtonRaphson method.In addition,the frequency-/force-response curves under different vertical stiffness are provided to study the nonlinear dynamic behaviors of the elastically supported model.To validate the theoretical analyses,the Runge-Kutta method is applied to obtain the numerical solutions.Finally,some interesting conclusions are drawn.