Detailed Description
The present invention will be further described with reference to the following examples and accompanying drawings. The specific examples are only intended to illustrate the invention in further detail and do not limit the scope of protection of the claims of the present application.
The invention provides a discrete element numerical simulation method (short method) for hydraulic erosion damage of cohesive sand, which is characterized by comprising the following steps:
step 1, establishing an initial calculation space area and a cohesive sand numerical model (numerical model for short): generating a corresponding initial calculation space region based on PFC3D software; then, in the initial calculation space region, according to the gradation of the cohesive sandy soil aggregate phase to be simulated, spherical particles representing the aggregate phase are generated according to the sequence of the size range from large to small, so that the generation of the aggregate particles is realized, and the generation position is randomly selected, thereby obtaining a cohesive sandy soil numerical model;
the viscous sandy soil consists of sandy soil aggregate and clay phase wrapped around the aggregate; the aggregate particles and the clay phase are uniformly distributed in the numerical model, and the aggregate particles are wrapped by the clay phase;
step 2, initialization and stress balance of the numerical model: setting a gravity field and calculating and solving corresponding unbalanced force until the stress balance or average unbalanced force in the numerical model meets the set requirement;
step 3, compiling a time effect-based strength degradation criterion linear bonding contact model (contact model for short) by utilizing a Python language or a C + + language to simulate a clay phase among aggregate particles in the cohesive sand;
step 4, selecting a contact model in PFC3D software as a mesoscopic mechanical model for contact between aggregate particles, and then taking values of mesoscopic parameters of the contact model;
the mesoscopic parameters comprise strength degradation criterion based on time effect, linear bonding rigidity ratio, linear bonding modulus, linear bonding normal strength, linear bonding cohesion and the like;
step 5, calibrating the numerical model through a direct shear strength test: performing a direct shear strength test on the cohesive sand test piece indoors by adopting a direct shear apparatus, and acquiring a stress-strain curve and corresponding macroscopic mechanical parameters of the cohesive sand test piece for calibration of numerical simulation; when the shear strength of the numerical model and the error between the stress-strain curve and the indoor test result are within a set range, the obtained microscopic parameters are considered to be reasonable, and the constructed numerical model can truly reflect the actual macroscopic mechanical property of the numerical model;
step 6, establishing a flow field to simulate the hydraulic erosion damage process of the viscous sand: establishing a corresponding flow field through a CFD module coupled in the PFC3D, carrying out grid division, calculating the interaction force of fluid-aggregate particles, and simulating the hydraulic erosion damage process of the viscous sandy soil;
step 7, obtaining a numerical simulation result of the hydraulic erosion damage test: arranging a measuring ball to measure corresponding porosity; and obtaining the soil mass lost in the hydraulic erosion damage process, the particle size distribution of the aggregate particles, the erosion rate, the hydraulic tangential shear force among the aggregate particles and the like by traversing the aggregate particles in the numerical model.
Further, in the step 3, the aggregate is represented by spherical particles in the PFC3D, and the clay phase is represented by a contact model of the absence of solids among the aggregate particles; the process of hydraulic erosion of the clay phase can be regarded as a process of degradation of the cohesive strength between the aggregate particles, i.e. the hydraulic erosion process can be equivalently replaced by a reduction of the cohesive strength of the contact pattern (as shown in fig. 2).
In step 3, the adhesive strength of the contact model is determined by the following steps:
(1) determining the mass of the clay phase:
Mclay=Mgrain*ξ (2)
in formula 2), MclayAnd MgrainRespectively representing the quality of a clay phase and an aggregate phase in the numerical model, and xi representing the proportion of the clay phase and the aggregate phase;
the clay phase surrounding each aggregate particle is proportional to the surface area of the aggregate particle, i.e.
In formula 3), mj_clayIs the mass of the clay phase around the aggregate particle j; r isjThe radius of the aggregate particles j is shown, and N is the total number of the aggregate particles in the numerical model;
(2) the introduction parameter λ represents the bond strength, which has the physical meaning of the bond strength provided per unit mass of clay, so that the total bond strength around the aggregate particle j is:
in formula 4), shear _ sjShear force between aggregate particles, tensile _ sjIs the tension between aggregate particles, lambdacohIs a cohesive strength coefficient, λtenIs the tensile strength coefficient; lambda, lambdacohAnd λtenThe value of (2) is obtained by the direct shear strength test in the step (5), so that the numerical model can reflect the macroscopic mechanical properties of the real viscous sand, such as the bonding strength, the internal friction angle and the like;
(3) there are several contacts around aggregate particle j that together make up the overall bond strength of the clay phase around aggregate particle j, where the bond strength of a single contact is expressed as:
in formula 5), C
iAnd T
iThe bonding strength of the contact i (shown in FIG. 3) between the aggregate particles j and kThe strength and the tensile strength of the steel,
and
the aggregate particles j and k, respectively.
The erosion rate of the cohesive sandy soil hydraulic erosion damage is approximately linear in relation to the hydraulic tangential shear force of the aggregate particle surface, and the correlation can be expressed as follows:
in the formula 1), a is an erosion rate per unit surface area (kg/m)2/s);kerSurface erosion coefficient (s/m); tau is the hydraulic tangential shear force on the surface of the aggregate particles; tau iscCritical hydraulic tangential shear force; b is an empirical coefficient (usually taken approximately 1);
after the flow field of step 6 is applied to the numerical model, the degradation rate of the bonding strength of the contact model of step 3 can be obtained by the following formula:
in formula 6), rkIs the radius, τ, of the aggregate particle kjAnd τkThe hydraulic tangential shear force of the particle j and the particle k in the flow field is respectively.
In step 6, simulating the hydraulic erosion damage process of the viscous sandy soil as follows:
(1) initializing a CFD module of PFC3D, reading initial conditions, fluid parameters and CFD meshes, and calculating porosity and drag force;
(2) the PFC3D sends data to a CFD solver, the CFD solver calculates data such as fluid speed, pressure gradient, dynamic viscosity, density and porosity, and then the PFC3D solver reads corresponding data to the PFC 3D;
(3) calculating the hydraulic tangential shear force borne by each aggregate particle according to a control equation, and judging whether the hydraulic tangential shear force is greater than a critical hydraulic tangential shear force; if the hydraulic tangential shear force is larger than the critical hydraulic tangential shear force, the hydraulic erosion damage occurs, and the step 4) is carried out; if the hydraulic tangential shear force is less than or equal to the critical hydraulic tangential shear force, the time step is increased by one step, and the step 2) is returned for recalculation;
(4) judging whether particle loss exists in the numerical model, if the particle loss exists, increasing the time step by one step, and returning to the step 2) to continue calculation; if no particle loss or hydraulic erosion has not occurred, the procedure is ended.
In step 6, in order to improve the calculation efficiency, shorten the calculation time, and ensure the simulation accuracy, the selection criteria of the time step in the numerical simulation process are as follows:
in formula 7), Δ tmin、Δtmid、ΔtmaxAnd Δ t represents a minimum time step, an intermediate time step, a maximum time step, and an actual time step, respectively; rlow、RhighAnd RuRespectively representing the ratio of the low-level unbalanced force, the high-level unbalanced force and the actual maximum unbalanced force in the numerical model.
Example 1
In this embodiment, the size of the sample for the cavitation erosion test is 112mm × 224mmm × 112mm (as shown in FIG. 4), and a cavity with a diameter of 20mm is present in the middle.
In step 1, respective cohesive sand numerical models are generated according to the aggregate phase grading curve shown in fig. 5, and as shown in fig. 6, three cohesive sand numerical models are generated from left to right for grading curves with fractal dimensions D of 1.7, 2.0 and 2.5, respectively;
in step 4, the mesoscopic parameters comprise strength degradation criterion based on time effect, linear bonding rigidity ratio, linear bonding modulus, linear bonding normal strength and linear bonding normal strengthCohesion and the like, and the specific parameters are as follows: the density of aggregate particles is 2500kg/m3Contact modulus of aggregate particles Ec=1.0×107Pa, linear bond modulus Eb=1.0×107Pa, linear bond stiffness ratio kn/ksWhen the ratio of the clay to the specific surface area is 1.0, the ratio ζ of the clay phase is 0.3, the coefficient b of the bonding radius range is 1.0, and the coefficient l of the linear bonding strength iscoh、lten=2.0×104N/kg, fluid density 1000kg/m3Hydrodynamic viscosity μf=0.001Pa·s;
In step 5, the direct shear strength test result is shown in fig. 7, the shear strength of the numerical model and the error between the stress-strain curve and the indoor test result are within the set range, the obtained microscopic parameters are reasonable, and the constructed numerical model can truly reflect the actual macroscopic mechanical property of the numerical model.
In step 7, taking the particle size distribution with fractal dimension D of 1.7 as an example, the soil mass lost in the hydraulic erosion damage process and the particle size distribution of aggregate particles obtained by traversing the aggregate particles in the numerical model are shown in fig. 8, the pore erosion development process is shown in fig. 9, and the erosion rate is shown in fig. 10.
In this embodiment, Δ tmin=1.0×10-3s,Δtmid=1s,Δtmax=500s,Rlow=5×10-4,Rhigh=5×10-3。
Nothing in this specification is said to apply to the prior art.