摘要
Horizontalimpedancefunctionsofinclinedsinglepilesaremeasuredexperimentallyformodelsoil-pilesystemswithboththeeffectsoflocalsoilnonlinearityandresonantcharacteristics.Twopracticalpileinclinationsof5掳and10掳inadditiontoaverticalpileembeddedincohesionlesssoilandsubjectedtolateralharmonicpileheadloadingsforawiderangeoffrequenciesareconsidered.Resultsobtainedwithlow-to-highamplitudeoflateralloadingsonmodelsoil-pilesystemsencasedinalaminarshearboxshowthatthelocalnonlinearitieshaveaprofoundimpactonthehorizontalimpedancefunctionsofpiles.Horizontalimpedancefunctionsofinclinedpilesarefoundtobesmallerthantheverticalpileandthevaluesdecreaseastheangleofpileinclinationincreases.Distinctvaluesofhorizontalimpedancefunctionsareobtainedforthe'positive'and'negative'cyclesofharmonicloadings,leadingtoasymmetricforce-displacementrelationshipsfortheinclinedpiles.Validationoftheseexperimentalresultsiscarriedoutthroughthree-dimensionalnonlinearfiniteelementanalyses,andtheresultsfromthenumericalmodelsareingoodagreementwiththeexperimentaldata.Sensitivityanalysesconductedonthenumericalmodelssuggestthattheconsiderationoflocalnonlinearityatthevicinityofthesoil-pileinterfaceinfluencetheresponseofthesoil-pilesystems.
出版日期
2013年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)