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Long-Term Stress Characteristics And Load Reduction Effect Of High-Fill Box Culverts With Eps Slabs, Qi Gao, Bao-Guo Chen, Sen Wu, Shan Yuan, Meng-Yao Sun
Long-Term Stress Characteristics And Load Reduction Effect Of High-Fill Box Culverts With Eps Slabs, Qi Gao, Bao-Guo Chen, Sen Wu, Shan Yuan, Meng-Yao Sun
Rock and Soil Mechanics
Laying expandable polystyrene (EPS) slabs on the top of high-fill box culverts to reduce earth pressure has been used in engineering practice, but the creep of EPS slabs will cause the earth pressure on the box culvert to change over time. The present design theory of box culverts cannot clearly reflect the long-term load reduction effect of EPS slabs and the long-term stress characteristics of box culverts. In this analysis, model tests were carried out to investigate the short-term stress characteristics of the box culvert with EPS slabs, and a numerical model was validated by the model test results. Then …
Creep–Fatigue Constitutive Model Of Salt Rock Based On A Hardening Parameter, Jin-Yang Fan, Lu-Xuan Tang, Jie Chen, Zhen-Yu Yang, De-Yi Jiang
Creep–Fatigue Constitutive Model Of Salt Rock Based On A Hardening Parameter, Jin-Yang Fan, Lu-Xuan Tang, Jie Chen, Zhen-Yu Yang, De-Yi Jiang
Rock and Soil Mechanics
Salt rock has been recognized as an ideal medium for energy storage or oil and gas storage because of its good creep and self-healing characteristics. Accurate characterization and prediction of the complex mechanical behavior of salt rock is the basis for ensuring the safety of underground space utilization project of salt caverns. Based on proposed parameters of hardening and other characteristic factors, in this study, a new creep–fatigue constitutive model is developed for salt rock considering complex loading and unloading paths. Based on the dislocation mechanism of salt rock deformation, hyperbolic damping elements are introduced as state variables to characterize …