沉管隧道接头遭遇地震作用时,会发生压弯变形,而接头刚度最能表征其变形规律。目前,缺少沉管隧道接头力学性能试验数据,同时设计或计算分析采用的接头刚度模型没有充分的验证。根据接头构造设计特点,进行几何比尺为1∶10的大比尺管节接头压弯试验,研究接头在轴向压力为500 k N下的弯曲变形规律。试验结果表明,随着轴向压力的增加,接头轴向压缩刚度有明显的增加;随着弯矩的增大,接头转角呈非线性增长,与此同时接头张开量呈反对称变化;卸载后接头存在一定的轴向和弯曲残余变形。
A dynamic hysteretic constitutive model for soil dynamics, Ramberg-Osgood model, is introduced and improved in the paper. Since the model is inherently 1D and is assumed to apply to shear components only, other components of the deviatorie stress and strain and their relations in 3D case could not be fully described. Two parameters, the equivalent shear stress and the equivalent shear strain, are defined to reasonably establish relations between each of stress and strain components respectively. The constitutive equations of the initial Ramberg-Osgood model are extended to generalize the theory into multidimensional cases. Difficulties of the definition of load reversal in 3D are also addressed and solved. The improved constitutive model for soil dynamics is verified by comparisons with different soil dynamic testing data covering both sands and clays. Results show that the dynamic nonlinear hysteretie behaviors of soils can be well predicted with the improved constitutive model.
