Zhuofeng Li, Shide Mo, Kaiwen Yang and Yunmin Chen
The paper aims to clarify the distribution of excess pore pressure during cone penetration in two-layered clay and its influence on penetrometer resistance.
Abstract
Purpose
The paper aims to clarify the distribution of excess pore pressure during cone penetration in two-layered clay and its influence on penetrometer resistance.
Design/methodology/approach
An arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian scheme is adopted to preserve the quality of mesh throughout the numerical simulation. Simplified methods of layered penetration and coupled pore pressure analysis of cone penetration have been proposed and verified by previous studies. The investigation is then extended by the present work to study the cone penetration test in a two-layered clay profile assumed to be homogeneous with the modified Cam clay model.
Findings
The reduction of the range of pore pressure with decreasing PF will cause a decrease of the sensing distance. The PF of the underlying soil is one of the factors that determine the development distance. The interface can be obtained by taking the position of the maximum curvature of the penetrometer resistance curve in the case of stiff clay overlying soft clay. In the case of soft clay overlying stiff clay, the interface locates at the maximum curvature of the penetrometer resistance curve above about 1.6D.
Research limitations/implications
The cone penetration analyses in this paper are conducted assuming smooth soil-cone contact.
Originality/value
A simplified method based on ALE in Abaqus/Explicit is proposed for layered penetration, which solves the problem of mesh distortion at the interface between two materials. The stiffness equivalent method is also proposed to couple pore pressure during cone penetration, which achieves efficient coupling of pore water pressure in large deformations.
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Zhongmei Zhang, Qingyang Hu, Guanxin Hou and Shuai Zhang
Vehicle companion is one of the most common companion patterns in daily life, which has great value to accident investigation, group tracking, carpooling recommendation and road…
Abstract
Purpose
Vehicle companion is one of the most common companion patterns in daily life, which has great value to accident investigation, group tracking, carpooling recommendation and road planning. Due to the complexity and large scale of vehicle sensor streaming data, existing work were difficult to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of real-time vehicle companion discovery (VCD). This paper aims to provide a high-quality and low-cost method to discover vehicle companions in real time.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper provides a real-time VCD method based on pro-active data service collaboration. This study makes use of dynamic service collaboration to selectively process data produced by relative sensors, and relax the temporal and spatial constraints of vehicle companion pattern for discovering more potential companion vehicles.
Findings
Experiments based on real and simulated data show that the method can discover 67% more companion vehicles, with 62% less response time comparing with centralized method.
Originality/value
To reduce the amount of processing streaming data, this study provides a Service Collaboration-based Vehicle Companion Discovery method based on proactive data service model. And this study provides a new definition of vehicle companion through relaxing the temporal and spatial constraints for discover companion vehicles as many as possible.