Numerical Analysis

Investigation on the wave-induced progressive liquefaction of offshore loosely deposited sandy seabed

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  • State Key Laboratory of Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China

Received date: 2015-09-10

  Online published: 2018-06-14

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Project supported by Investigation of Progressive Liquefaction in Seabed Foundation around Offshore Structures Considering the Nonlinear Porous Flow (Grant No. 41472291).

Abstract

The Pastor-Zienkiewicz-Mark III (PZIII) constitutive model, which can be used to describe the nonlinear behavior of sandy seabed soil, is implemented into a well-validated computer code, FSSI-CAS 2D, for analyzing the wave-seabed-structure interaction. The characteristics of wave-induced liquefaction in offshore loosely-deposited sandy seabed is quantitatively investigated. The analysis results indicate that the developed coupled numerical model FSSI-CAS 2D is capable of capturing a series of the properties of wave-induced cumulative liquefaction in loose seabed, as well as its wave-induced dynamics. The results also show that the wave-induced liquefaction in seabed is progressive. That is, wave-induced liquefaction initiates at the surface of seabed, and propagates downward under long-term wave loading.

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WANG Liang-min, YE Jian-hong, ZHU Chang-qi . Investigation on the wave-induced progressive liquefaction of offshore loosely deposited sandy seabed[J]. Rock and Soil Mechanics, 2015 , 36(12) : 3583 -3588 . DOI: 10.16285/j.rsm.2015.12.031

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