UH模型在超高心墙堆石坝变形分析中的适应性研究

    Study on the adaptability of the UH model in high core-wall rockfill dam

    • 摘要: 高心墙堆石坝因应力路径复杂、围压范围大、堆石料与心墙土料力学特性差异显著,施工与蓄水过程的力学响应及变形行为十分复杂。目前工程界广泛用于土石坝施工和蓄水模拟的邓肯-张模型精度不足,尤其是水平位移严重失真,而弹塑性本构模型普遍存在参数数量较多、物理意义不够明确及参数确定难等问题,这些局限性显著制约了该类模型的工程适用性与推广应用。UH模型参数具有清晰的物理含义,可通过常规试验直接确定,显著提高了模型实用性,但UH模型在在超高心墙堆石坝变形分析中的适应性研究还较少。本文在高性能计算软件Geodyna 8.0平台上集成并实现了三维UH模型,针对堆石料流变特征,在模型中引入了流变及其硬化效应,并对国内首座300 m级心墙堆石坝——两河口工程的施工与蓄水全过程进行了数值模拟。研究表明:UH模型再现了堆石区与心墙区变形的发展变化规律,模拟的坝体垂直和水平位移时空分布均具有较高的精度,有效刻画了大围压范围、复杂应力路径下堆石料和心墙土料的力学响应,验证了UH模型及其实现方法的合理性与工程适用性。研究成果可为高心墙堆石坝的数值仿真分析与安全评估提供可靠的方法依据。

       

      Abstract: High earth-core rockfill dams (ECRDs) are characterized by complex stress paths, wide confining pressure ranges, and markedly different mechanical behaviors between the rockfill shells and the central clay core, leading to highly complex mechanical responses during construction and reservoir impoundment. The widely used Duncan–Chang model often exhibits significant inaccuracies—particularly in predicting longitudinal displacements—while advanced elastoplastic models typically require numerous poorly defined parameters that are difficult to calibrate, hindering their practical application. In contrast, the UH model features physically meaningful parameters that can be determined from conventional triaxial tests, enhancing its practicality; however, its performance in 300-m-class earth-core rockfill dams has not been adequately evaluated. In this paper, a 3D UH model was integrated and implemented on the high-performance computing platform Geodyna 8.0. To account for the creep characteristics of rockfill materials, creep and its associated hardening effects were incorporated into the model, and numerical simulations were performed on the full construction and impoundment processes of the Lianghekou Project, China’s first 300-m-class earth-core rockfill dam. The simulation accurately captures the spatiotemporal evolution of deformations in both the rockfill shell and the clay core, reproducing settlement and longitudinal displacement distributions with high fidelity, and representing the mechanical behavior of rockfill and core soil under extreme stress conditions. The results demonstrate the validity and engineering applicability of the UH model formulation and its numerical implementation, thereby establishing it as a reliable tool for the numerical simulation and safety assessment of high earth-core rockfill dams.

       

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