Numerical Simulation of Seabed Response and Liquefaction due to Nonlinear Waves

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2005-03-13
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BasedonBiot'sconsolidationtheory,atwo-dimensionalmodelforcomputationoftheseabedresponsetowavesispresentedwiththefiniteelementmethod.Numericalresultsfordifferentwaveconditionsareobtained,andtheeffectsofwavenon-linearityonthewave-inducedseabedresponseareexamined.Moreover,thewave-inducedmomentaryliquefactioninuniformandinhomogeneousseabedsisinvestigated.Itisshownthatthewavenon-linearityaffectsthedistributionofthewave-inducedporepressureandeffectivestresses,whiletheinfluenceofwavenon-linearityontheseabedliquefactionpotentialisnotsosignificant.