简介:Theresultsofastudyonthekeytechnologyofusingshellsand,akindofseasand,asbackfillforseareclamationaredescribedbriefly.Laboratorytestsshowthatthephysicalandmechanicalpropertiesofshellsandareasgoodasnormalquartzsand.Basedonthechemicaltestanddurabilitytestofshellsanditcouldbeconcludedthattheinfluenceofcorrosionofshellsandbyacidrainandseawatermightbeignoredintheevaluationofthesafetyanddurabilityoftheengineeringproject.Theresultsoffieldimprovementtestsshowthatthebearingcapacityofshellsandbackfillfoundationismorethan200kPaaftervibroflotationimprovementordynamiccompactionimprovement.Theshellsandisagoodbackfillmaterialforseareclamation.
简介:Anumericalmodelfortheself-burialofapipelinetrenchisdeveloped.Morphologicalevolutionsofapipelinetrenchundersteady-currentoroscillatory-flowconditionsaresimulatedwith/withoutapipelineinsidethetrench.Theoscillatoryflowinthisstudyrepresentstheactionofwaves.Thetwo-dimensionalReynolds-averagedcontinuityandNavier-Stokesequationswiththestandardk-εturbulenceclosure,aswellasthesedimenttransportequations,aresolvedwiththefinitedifferencemethodinacurvilinearcoordinatesystem.Bothbedandsuspendedloadsofsedimenttransportareincludedinthemorphologicalmodel.Becauseofthelackofexperimentaldataonthebackfillingofpipelinetrenches,thenumericalmodelisfiretlyverifiedagainstthreeclosely-relevantexperimentsavailableinliterature.Adetailedmeasurementofthechannelmigrationphenomenonundersteadycurrentsisemployedfortheassessmentoftheintegralperformanceofthemodel.ThetwoexperimentalresultsfromU-tubetestsareusedtovalidatethemodel'sabilityinpredictingoscillatoryflows.Differenttime-marchingschemesareemployedforthemorphologicalcomputationunderunidirectionalandoscillatoryconditions.Itisfoundthatvortexmotionswithinthetrenchplayanimportantroleinthetrenchdevelopment.