Coulomb Constitutive Model Research Articles

Do soft soil layers reduce the seismic kinematic distress of onshore high-pressure gas pipelines?

AbstractOnshore high - pressure gas pipelines constitute critical infrastructure that usually cross seismic - prone regions and are vulnerable to Permanent Ground Deformations (PGDs) due to active seismic faults. In design, it may not be feasible to avoid fault rupture areas due to various technical, economical and topographic reasons. Moreover, the presence of soil layers affects the PGDs resulting from a tectonic fault, which in turn may alter the seismic demand on the pipeline. The current study investigates numerically the impact of soft soil layers on the seismic kinematic distress of onshore gas pipelines. For this purpose, a decoupled numerical modeling approach is adopted, consisting of two separate finite - element models for the simulation of soil response and pipeline distress, respectively. Soil non - linearities are taken into account utilizing the Mohr - Coulomb constitutive model with isotropic strain softening. An extensive parametric analysis is performed considering different faulting mechanisms and fault dip angles, as well as soil geometry and mechanical properties. Consequently, the maximum absolute values of both tensile and compressive pipeline strains are correlated with the seismic intensity level (i.e., in terms of bedrock offset which is associated with earthquake magnitude via simple relationships). The paper concludes with a set of design charts and tables for the preliminary seismic design of onshore high - pressure gas pipelines. These charts and tables predict with reasonable accuracy pipeline deformations, in terms of strains, for different magnitude, fault type, dip angle, sand type, and varying overlying soil layer thickness.

Damage Mechanism Research of Yushu Airport Road Landslide No.3 Base on Elastoplastic Damage Constitutive Model

Due to the earthquake of Yushu in April 14, 2010, Airport Road landslide No.3 deformed cracking, resulting in lower stability of slope, triggering landslides and other diseases. Selecting the section 2-2 (mileage K823 + 809) of Airport Road landslide No.3 as the calculation section, we use the ABAQUS finite element program to establish landslide numerical mode. The slip mass of landslide was simulated by the elastic-plastic damage constitutive model, and the bedrock was analyzed as Mohr - Coulomb constitutive model. Landslide No3 is analyzed for example, and showed that earthquake triggering mechanism elastplastic damage constitutive model can describe the landslide very well.