Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University ›› 2015, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (07): 929-934.

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Analysis of LongTerm Deformation of Railway Embankment at Repeated Train Load in Permafrost Regions

WU Zhijian1,2,3,CHEN Tuo4,MA Wei5   

  1. (1. Key Laboratory of Loess Earthquake Engineering, China Earthquake Administration and Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China; 2. Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China Earthquake Administration, Lanzhou 730000, China; 3. Geotechnical Disaster Prevention Engineering Technology Research Center of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China; 4. State Key Laboratory for Geomechanics and Deep Underground Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; 5. State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China)
  • Received:2014-09-30 Online:2015-07-30 Published:2015-07-30

Abstract:

Abstract: Based on strong motion tests on typical embankment at Beilu River segment along the QinghaiTibet Railroad, the acceleration history waveforms near railway tracks were collected when the train was passing, and the dynamic train load was converted into equivalent creep stress by using the equivalent static force method. Moreover, the creep equation of frozen soil was introduced according to the result of frozen soil rheological triaxial tests. The longterm deformation of the embankment at the train load was obtained, and the ratio of permanent deformation at the train load to the whole embankment deformation was quantized as well. The research results show that the vibration effect of repeated train load on deformation accounted for approximately 10% of the total accumulative settlement of the embankment. The creep strain values at the slope toes are significant and extended upwards gradually, which increases with the development of time and the strain rate decreases instead.

Key words: permafrost, train load, long-term deformation, creep effect

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