Establishment and Experimental Verification of Stress-Temperature Coupled Damage Model of Warm Frozen Soil

Abstract

Under the background of rising environmental temperature, the state of warm frozen soil near the phase transition is extremely unstable. In order to explore the relationship between temperature and mechanical properties of warm frozen soil, a damage model of warm frozen soil structure under the coupling of stress and temperature is established based on the strain equivalent theory of damage mechanics. Based on the Mohr-Coulomb criterion, the nominal stress is used to represent the stress damage of frozen soil elements, the initial elastic modulus is used to represent the temperature damage, and a composite damage factor is introduced to describe their coupled relationship. Through a triaxial compression experiment of frozen soil, the experimental data and stress-strain curve are obtained. The full-fitting method based on the experimental data (method 1) and the semitheoretical semifitting method based on the characteristic points of the stress-strain curve (method 2) are used to obtain the shape parameters and scale parameters of the stress-temperature coupled damage model corresponding to different fitting methods. Based on the triaxial compression tests of frozen sand and frozen silty clay, the reliability of the stress-temperature coupled damage model results obtained by the two parameter determination methods under the conditions of strain softening and strain hardening is verified. The results show that both methods are applicable under the condition of strain softening and strain hardening and method 2 is better than method 1 under the condition of strain softening. Compared with the prediction results of the single stress damage model, the stress-temperature coupled damage model can effectively reduce the influence of the parameter estimation error on the results and improve the overall stability of the model.

Analytical Model for the Load-Bearing Capacity Analysis of Winter Forest Roads: Experiment and Estimation

“…Taking into account the brittleness of frozen ground, it should be noted that relatively new approaches for studying the fracture mechanics of brittle materials [12] are promising for solving the abovementioned problem of predicting the bearing capacity of winter forest roads, as such methods allow one to model the damageability of materials under both force and temperature changes [13][14][15][16]. Within the framework of the present work, using a fracture mechanics methodology offers the possibility to analyze the stiffness and strength of a road structure without prior information on the stresses in the ground, which greatly simplifies the analysis and prediction of the bearing capacity of winter forest roads.…”