scholarly journals Experimental and Numerical Study of the Dynamic Response of XCC Pile–Raft Foundation under High-Speed Train Loads

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 9260
Author(s):  
Qiang Fu ◽  
Jie Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Soft Soil ◽  
Composite Foundation ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Vibration Velocity ◽  
Wheel Load ◽  
Foundation Soil

A series of dynamic large-scale model tests and three-dimensional finite element analyses were conducted to investigate the dynamic response of track embankment and XCC pile-raft composite foundation in soft soil for a ballastless high-speed railway under moving train loads. The results indicate that the vibration velocity obtained from the FE numerical simulation agrees well with that from the model test in vibration waveform, amplitude, and frequency characteristics. The peak values corresponding to the passing frequency of train carriage geometry (lc = 25 m), bogie (lab = 7.5 m), and axle distance (lwb = 2.5 m) respectively reflect the characteristic frequencies of the train compartment, adjacent bogie, and wheel load passing through. The peak velocity significantly depends on the distance from the track center in the horizontal direction, of which the attenuation follows the exponential curve distribution. The vibration velocities decrease rapidly within embankment, show a vibration enhancement region from raft to the 1 m depth of foundation soil, then decreases gradually along the subsoil foundation, to a very low level at the bottom of the subsoil, which is much lower than that at the track slab and roadbed. The pile-raft composite foundation can reduce the vibration level effectively and improve the safety of trains running in soft soil areas.

scholarly journals Model Test Study on the Influence of Train Speed on the Dynamic Response of an X-Section Pile-Net Composite Foundation

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Shanshan Xue ◽  
Yumin Chen ◽  
Hanlong Liu
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Dynamic Stress ◽  
Composite Foundation ◽  
Vibration Velocity ◽  
Distribution Characteristics ◽  
Vibration Acceleration ◽  
Foundation Soil ◽  
Dynamic Displacement ◽  
Train Speed ◽  
Train Loading

Based on a large-scale X-section pile-net composite foundation model, we experimentally studied the dynamic characteristics of the pile-net composite foundation under a high-speed railway train load; analyzed the distribution characteristics of the dynamic stress, dynamic displacement, speed, and acceleration of the foundation soil under different train speeds; and investigated the vibration response of the track subgrade foundation system, as well as the distribution characteristics and attenuation pattern of the dynamic stress inside the subgrade foundation under cyclic train loading. The following results are obtained. The peak vertical vibration speed and the peak acceleration attenuate by 90% and 62.5%, respectively, after passing through the embankment. The vibration velocity increases linearly with the train speed; the ratio of the peak dynamic soil stresses at the top of the piles and between the piles is approximately 3.4. The change in train speed does not have a large influence on the peak dynamic displacement or peak dynamic soil stress. The peak spectral vibration acceleration caused by the train loading is located within the range of medium-to-low-frequency vibrations, and the characteristic frequency corresponds to the passing frequency of the bogies and carriages; as the train speed increases, the peak spectral vibration acceleration increases, and the high-frequency components increase significantly.

Effect of Existing Building Walls on the Geotechnical Behavior of Foundation under Earthquake Loading

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
M. N. Massoud Elsiragy
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Bending Moment ◽  
Horizontal Displacement ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Earthquake Loading ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Foundation Soil ◽  
Soil System ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Building Walls

— Structure’s systems are subjected to additional loads due to earthquakes that may be produces progressive failures. The building illustrates dissimilar categories of failure mechanism for the minor to major earthquake conditions. These structures categorized to the most susceptible type of building has experienced serious hazard or even full failure for the period of seismic activities, therefore their investigation is a complex thing to do. Consequently, this research aims at studying the behaviour of large-scale model of structures constructed with and without brick walls under seismic conditions. The effect of building walls on the performance of the structure during earthquake loading is investigated numerically using PLAXIS 3D software. An eight story building with basement designed on a mat foundation is simulated as three-dimensional model in case of brick walls existing and without brick walls case. The effect of existence such wall building on the stability of foundation soil system is discussed in the form of lateral, horizontal deformation, and foundation acceleration. The studied showed that the reduction of extreme horizontal displacement and bending moment for building foundation with brick walls reached to 43%, and 68% respectively compared to the building without walls. The consideration of wall as filling for super structure significantly reduce the foundation acceleration by as much as 72% of its initial value, which lead to considerable effect of increasing the foundation stability.

scholarly journals Active Control of Contact Force for a Pantograph-Catenary System

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiqiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Active Control ◽  
Contact Force ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vibration Suppression ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Geometric Framework ◽  
High Speed Trains ◽  
Catenary System

The performance of the high speed trains depends critically on the quality of the contact in the pantograph-catenary interaction. Maintaining a constant contact force needs taking special measures and one of the methods is to utilize active control to optimize the contact force. A number of active control methods have been proposed in the past decade. However, the primary objective of these methods has been to reduce the variation of the contact force in the pantograph-catenary system, ignoring the effects of locomotive vibrations on pantograph-catenary dynamics. Motivated by the problems in active control of vibration in large scale structures, the author has developed a geometric framework specifically targeting the remote vibration suppression problem based only on local control action. It is the intention of the paper to demonstrate its potential in the active control of the pantograph-catenary interaction, aiming to minimize the variation of the contact force while simultaneously suppressing the vibration disturbance from the train. A numerical study is provided through the application to a simplified pantograph-catenary model.

Numerical investigation on dynamic response of a steel lattice tower under various seismic events

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Falborsk ◽  
Natalia Lasowicz
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Soil Structure ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Soft Soil ◽  
Time History ◽  
Time History Analysis ◽  
Modal Parameters ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Lattice Tower ◽  
Ground Motion Records

The present paper presents the results of the numerical study designed to investigate the soil-structure flexibility effects on modal parameters (i.e. fundamental frequencies) and time-history analysis response (represented by the top relative displacements) of a 46.8 m high steel lattice tower subjected to a number of ground motions including also one mining tremor. In addition to the fixed-base condition, three different soil types (i.e. dense soil, stiff soil, and soft soil) were considered in this investigation. Site conditions were characterized by their average effective profile velocities, Poisson’s ratios, and finally mass densities. Soil-foundation flexibility was introduced using the spring-based approach, utilizing foundation springs and dashpots. The first step was to investigate the influence of different base conditions on modal parameters of the steel lattice tower. In the final part of the current study time-history analysis was performed using different two-component ground motion records (in two horizontal, mutually perpendicular directions). The results obtained indicate that modal parameters and dynamic response of the structure may be considerably affected by the soil-structure interaction effects. Therefore, the present paper confirms the necessity of utilizing soil-flexibility into numerical research.

Dynamic Response of Pile-Board Subgrade Based on Large Scale Model Test

2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Su ◽  
Xing Li ◽  
Hao Bai
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Dynamic Load ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Test Group ◽  
Structural Type ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Load Frequency ◽  
Large Scale Model ◽  
Supporting Effect

A series of tests based on large scale model are designed to study dynamic response of pile-broad subgrade, aiming at structure’s response towards different load frequency and structure’s performance under long-term dynamic load. The test results indicate that dynamic stress of reinforcement and soil decrease slightly with load frequency, while accelerations trend to increase. Soil under loading plate has certain supporting effect because stress of reinforcement is smaller in test group with soil remains. Performance of pile-board subgrade under long-term dynamic load is steady and reliable since none of stress and displacement varies obviously when loading times increase to 106. Ultimate bearing capacity of pile-board subgrade is much bigger than actual demand, so the structural type of pile-broad plate remains to be optimized.

2D and 3D Multiscale Computational Modeling of Dynamic Microorgan Devices as Drug Screening Platforms

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippos Tourlomousis ◽  
Robert C. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Optimum Process ◽  
Shear Stresses ◽  
Enzymatic Reactions ◽  
Modeling Approach

The ability to incorporate three-dimensional (3D) hepatocyte-laden hydrogel constructs using layered fabrication approaches into devices that can be perfused with drugs enables the creation of dynamic microorgan devices (DMDs) that offer an optimal analog of the in vivo liver metabolism scenario. The dynamic nature of such in vitro metabolism models demands reliable numerical tools to determine the optimum process, material, and geometric parameters for the most effective metabolic conversion of the perfused drug into the liver microenvironment. However, there is a current lack of literature that integrates computational approaches to guide the optimum design of such devices. The groundwork of the present numerical study has been laid by our previous study [1], where the authors modeled in 2D an in vitro DMD of arbitrary dimensions and identified the modeling challenges towards meaningful results. These constructs are hosted in the chamber of the microfluidic device serving as walls of the microfluidic array of channels through which a fluorescent drug substrate is perfused into the microfluidic printed channel walls at a specified volumetric flow rate assuring Stokes flow conditions (Re<<1). Due to the porous nature of the hydrogel walls, a metabolized drug product is collected at the outlet port. A rigorous FEM based modeling approach is presented for a single channel parallel model geometry (1 free flow channel with 2 porous walls), where the hydrodynamics, mass transfer and pharmacokinetics equations are solved numerically in order to yield the drug metabolite concentration profile at the DMD outlet. The fluid induces shear stresses are assessed both in 3D, with only 27 cells modeled as single compartment voids, where all of the enzymatic reactions are assumed to take place. In this way, the mechanotransduction effect that alters the hepatocyte metabolic activity is assessed for a small scale model. This approach overcomes the numerical limitations imposed by the cell density (∼1012 cells/m3) of the large scale DMD device. In addition, a compartmentalization technique is proposed in order to assess the metabolism process at the subcellular level. The numerical results are validated with experiments to reveal the robustness of the proposed modeling approach and the necessity of scaling the numerical results by preserving dynamic and biochemical similarity between the small and large scale model.

Dynamic Response of High-Speed Train-Track System Due to Unsupported Sleepers

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1850122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Dai ◽  
Kok Keng Ang ◽  
Dongqi Jiang ◽  
Van Hai Luong ◽  
Minh Thi Tran
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Computational Scheme ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Track System ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Element Method

This paper is concerned with a numerical study on the dynamic response of a high-speed rail (HSR) system subjected to unsupported sleepers using the moving element method (MEM). A three-phase computational scheme in conjunction with the MEM is proposed to account for the motion of the unsupported sleepers in relation to the truncated rail segment in the moving coordinate system. The accuracy of the proposed computational scheme is examined by comparison with available analytical results in the literature and against the finite element method using commercial software. A parametric study is conducted using a computational model consisting of a 10-degree of freedom train model and a three-layer ballasted track model to investigate the effect of unsupported sleepers on the dynamic response of the HSR system. Various factors affecting the response of the HSR system, including the speed of the train, the number of unsupported sleepers and the distance between the unsupported sleepers, are examined and discussed.

Experimental and numerical investigation of novel Savonius wind turbine

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Palanisamy Mohan Kumar ◽  
M Mohan Ram Surya ◽  
Srikanth Narasimalu ◽  
Teik-Cheng Lim
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Wind Turbines ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Low Noise ◽  
Power Coefficient ◽  
Speed Ratio ◽  
Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines ◽  
Thrust Load

Savonius wind turbines have distinct advantages in terms of simplicity, low noise, and ease of manufacturing, yet they are not preferred for large-scale power generation due to their lower aerodynamic performance and high wind loads. This study is aimed at reducing the thrust load with retractable type telescopic blades. This novel telescopic Savonius turbine is tested in an open jet wind tunnel to assess the performance in terms of torque, power, and thrust on the rotor. The dynamic and static characteristics are obtained for both extended and retracted configuration after correcting the experimental data for wind tunnel blockage. A preliminary numerical study is carried out in an effort to determine the variation of the drag coefficient in relation to the bucket thickness. The proposed telescopic turbine demonstrates a reduction in thrust load of 72.4% with a maximum power coefficient of 0.14 at the tip speed ratio of 0.7 compared to an extended operating configuration, similar to a conventional Savonius turbine. Thus, the telescopic Savonius turbine can be scaled up to higher kilowatt capacity with the cost comparable to other high-speed rotors such as Darrieus or horizontal axis wind turbines.

Analysis for Interaction of Pile Group of Variable Stiffness Composite Foundation

2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 771-775
Author(s):  
Su Fen Zhang ◽  
Jian Hui Zhang ◽  
Xiao Yang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Design Optimization ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Variable Stiffness ◽  
Pile Group ◽  
Composite Foundation ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Large Scale Model ◽  
Pile Interaction

In the paper, a set of analysis formulas of pile-group of variable stiffness composite foundations was derived.The reasonability and reliability of the proposed method were showed by the results of a large scale model experiment.It is valuable to the analysis of the pile-group of composite settlement, the design optimization and the study of mechanism of pile-to-pile interaction.

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