适用于饱和黏土循环动力研究的边界面塑性模型及应用-boundary surface plasticity model suitable for cyclic dynamic study of saturated clay and its application.docx

ABSTRACT The embedded offshore structures, such as the pile anchor, suction caisson anchor, the suction bucket foundation and the drag anchor, which need to withstand under the extremely complicated ocean environment, are often deeply embedded in the seabed to keep their stability and functionality. Inevitably, the embedded offshore structure and its surrounding soil are subjected to the long-term, low-frequency cyclic loading caused by the winds, waves and currents. Hence, the evolvement of the cyclic behavior of the seabed soil could induce the great change of the bearing capacity of the embedded offshore structures. With regard to the problem, a dynamic model for assessing the cyclic bearing capacity of the embedded offshore structures is presented in the paper. Firstly, within the critical state framework, a new bounding surface plasticity model without elastic region suitable for capturing the cyclic shakedown and degradation of saturated clay is developed. By taking the stress reversal point as the generalized homological center, the generalized hardening rule is proposed. With movement of the generalised homological centre, at lower stress amplitudes, the cyclic process ends at a steady state, and cyclic shakedown is reached. At higher stress amplitudes, a damage parameter related to the accumulated deviatoric plastic strain is incorporated into the form of the bounding surface, which is hence able to contract to model degradations in stiffness and strength. The model requires the critical state parameters and the hardening modulus parameters, all of them have clear physical meanings. For the monotonic loading, only the former is needed, for the cyclic loading, the latter should be calibrated by the laboratory tests related with the dynamic shear modulus and the damping ratio. The developed model is validated through undrained isotropic cyclic triaxial tests in normally consolidated and overconsolidated saturated clay under both one-way and two-way loadings.