抗滑短桩越顶问题的有限元验证

抗滑短桩是介于抗滑键与全长桩的一种特殊的抗滑桩,由于其较全长桩经济,已在实际工程中应用。云阳县太公沱至余家包库岸大咀段库岸因其下滑推力大、滑面埋深深,采用常规的抗滑桩极其不合理,通过方案比选此滑坡采用长12m的抗滑短桩进行支护。运用有限元强度折减法对设置抗滑短桩后,对滑面是否越过桩顶进行了验证。经计算设置抗滑短桩后滑坡稳定系数为1．25,说明滑坡采用抗滑短桩支护是可行的。     

不同计算方法计算滑坡推力与桩前抗力的比较与分析

不平衡推力法用于计算滑坡推力是可行的,但在计算桩前抗力时,无法考虑桩的变形因素,计算结果偏大,使工程设计偏于不安全.有限元强度折减法用于计算滑坡推力与桩前抗力,遵循桩-土共同作用的原则,计算结果更合理,并可以得到相应的推力与抗力分布.通过分析验证了有限元强度折减法计算抗滑桩的推力与抗力更为可靠.     

微型抗拔桩桩土接触面模拟分析

为研究微型抗拔桩桩土接触面参数对其力学性质的影响,在现场单桩竖向抗拔静载试验的基础上,采用ANSYS面-面接触单元模拟桩土接触特性。研究表明:桩土接触黏聚力对侧摩阻力的影响远大于摩擦因数;桩对桩周土的影响范围与桩径成正比;桩身轴力随埋深的分布与桩长有关,桩长超过一定范围时,传递到下部的荷载较小。将模拟结果与试验结果进行对比,二者发展趋势较一致,说明ANSYS分析结果可为工程设计和施工提供借鉴和参考。     

爆扩桩抗拔承载力计算公式研究

目前关于扩底桩尤其是爆扩桩抗拔力计算公式很少。在有限的扩底桩计算公式中,普遍存在着对爆扩桩的承载机理不清楚,对扩大头作用的体现机理表达不准确等问题。首先介绍一些典型的抗拔计算公式,选出有代表性的且适用于爆扩桩的抗拔计算公式, 然后根据工程试桩的计算结果,结合理论分析对公式的合理性进行探讨,最后根据爆扩桩的抗拔机理和试验分析给出易于运用的软土中大直径爆扩桩的抗拔承载力计算公式,并给出相应的构造要求。     

基于应变路径法的压入管桩单桩挤土位移

基于应变路径法和球孔扩张理论,结合真实源与虚拟源、真实源与虚拟汇的相互作用,在假定土体变形为小应变的前提下,将压入实心桩单桩挤土位移的求解方法应用于压入管桩,通过求解真实源与虚拟汇共同作用下产生的竖向挤土位移,并修正地表面处的附加剪应力,得到压入管桩单桩竖向挤土位移的解析解;通过求解真实源与虚拟源共同作用下产生的水平挤土位移,并修正地表面处的附加正应力,得到压入管桩单桩水平挤土位移的解析解。由挤土位移的解析解可知,桩长、管桩内外径和土塞高度最大值的变化都会对压入管桩挤土位移产生影响。     

珠海关后广场地下工程抗浮爆扩桩抗拔承载力的试验研究

本文根据珠海关后广场抗浮爆护桩抗拔试验结果,简要分析了饱和软土中大直径爆扩桩的抗拔受力特性和单桩的抗拔机理。与一般摩摩擦桩相比,爆扩桩的抗浮承载力除了由桩与土的摩擦力提供外,还有底部扩大头与其上部土层的作用力提供,而该力由扩大头上部土层的极限承载力来控制,通过加大头部可以大大提高桩的抗拔力。因此,采用爆扩桩作为工程的抗浮方案可大大减少工程量、节省工期、降低工程造价。本文为今后指导同类型桩的设计、施     

U型钢板桩施工的滑坡动态勘察技术及数值模拟

为节省边(滑)坡灾害的应急加固时间,提高边(滑)坡处置的效率和质量,针对边(滑)坡在勘察阶段提出了基于U型钢板桩施工的动态勘察技术,即在静压植桩机压入U型钢板桩的同时,利用与其配套的压入管理系统设备与软件对压桩数据进行监测和分析,从而反馈出地层强度等信息。数值模拟中,为了能利用工程中所得压桩阻力图谱来反推地层信息,归纳总结了不同土体在桩压入时的应力云图和压桩阻力规律。结果表明:压桩阻力规律与地层信息之间存在对应关系,据此可判断地层强度特征等信息,数值模拟也为后续的现场试验研究提供了依据。     

土体泊松比对压入管桩单桩挤土位移场的影响

基于ABAQUS有限元软件,采用主从接触算法模拟桩-土相互作用、修正剑桥模型作为土体本构模型,通过在桩顶施加竖向位移荷载以及合适的网格划分技术建立了较为符合压入管桩压桩实际的有限元模型。利用得到的有限元模型模拟了压入管桩压桩产生的挤土位移场,对不同泊松比时压入管桩单桩挤土位移场进行了对比分析。结果表明:不同泊松比时竖向和水平挤土位移场沿深度方向和径向的分布规律趋于一致;土体泊松比的变化会对压入管桩压桩产生的竖向和水平挤土位移场产生较大影响;泊松比越大,压桩产生的竖向和水平挤土位移越大。     

单桩沉降的可靠度分析

桩体沉降的可靠度,是桩基极限状态设计法的重要指标,本文建立了计算土体参数空间变异性的方差函数公式,采用一次二阶矩法计算可靠性指标,分析了桩土刚度比,桩的长径比,土的自相关距离和土体变形模量变异性等因素对桩体沉降可靠度的影响。     

基于土拱理论的两种桩型抗滑性能对比分析

为避免由于相邻抗滑桩间土拱效应的存在,使得位于桩后三角形受压区的土体发生破坏,导致所设计的桩间距不能充分发挥抗滑桩作用,提出了一种不产生三角形受压区的截面形状为等腰三角形的抗滑桩。从土拱受力分析出发,并以桩间静力平衡条件、拱脚截面强度条件分别建立起矩形和三角形截面桩桩间距表达式。工程算例表明,三角形截面桩单位截面面积有效抗滑能力较强,在实际工程中可采用相对小间距的三角形截面桩,以提高整体经济效益。     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.