软黏土中海上风电大直径单桩循环响应加速分析

    Accelerated analysis on cyclic response of large-diameter monopiles offshore wind turbines in soft clay

    • 摘要: 大直径单桩是海上风电常用的基础型式。在服役期内,海上风电机组要承受上百万次的风、浪等循环荷载,造成单桩基础长期累积变形、限制上部结构的正常使用。为提高多次循环加载条件下的计算效率,基于软黏土不排水循环加载边界面模型,采用桩周土累积塑性应变变化率外推的手段,开展了软黏土中大直径单桩长期循环响应的加速有限元分析。通过与循环三轴试验的对比,验证了加速计算方法的可靠性。其后的大直径单桩循环加载响应加速有限元分析表明,该方法能有效预测桩顶累积变形与土体塑性区发展,并与离心机试验及经验公式结果吻合良好,计算效率提升10倍以上。本研究为桩基长期循环响应分析提供了一种高效、可靠的数值模拟途径。

       

      Abstract: Large-diameter monopiles serve as a widely adopted foundation form for offshore wind turbines. Throughout their service life, offshore wind turbines are subjected to millions of cycles of wind and wave cyclic loads, which induces long-term accumulated deformation of the monopile foundation and restricting the normal operation of the superstructure. To improve computational efficiency under multiple cyclic loading conditions, this paper conducts an accelerated finite element analysis of the long-term cyclic response of large-diameter monopiles in soft clay. The approach is based on an undrained cyclic bounding surface model for soft clay and employs extrapolation of the cumulative plastic strain rate in the soil around the pile. The reliability of the accelerated computation method is verified through comparison with cyclic triaxial tests. Subsequent accelerated finite element analyses of the cyclic loading response of large-diameter monopiles show that this method can effectively predict the accumulated deformation at the pile head and the development of soil plastic zones, with results consistent with centrifuge model tests and empirical formulas. Computational efficiency is improved by more than tenfold. This study provides an efficient and reliable numerical simulation approach for analyzing the long-term cyclic response of pile foundations.

       

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