Numerical analysis of the forming process of the bearing capacity of the auxiliary pile foundation in Permafrost area

School of civil engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China

^* Corresponding author: sunjzh@mail.lzjtu.cn

Abstract

Bore Cast-in-place Piles broke the original water and heat balance state of the stratum in the bridge construction of Qinghai Tibet railway. The settlement of a bridge pile foundation was relatively large after more than ten years of operation. It was found that there is confined water in the foundation soil after investigation. Engineers planned to add auxiliary piles at the original pile side to reduce the settlement of the pile foundation.This paper studied the temperature change, bearing capacity formation rule and long-term bearing capacity change trend of the new pile-soil system after adding auxiliary piles on the original foundation, which provides certain theoretical basis and reference basis for engineering practice. A three-dimensional model of a bridge pile foundation was established by numerical method. Considering the influence of atmospheric temperature, hydrogeological conditions, concrete temperature into the mold, and the temperature of underground confined water, based on the heat transfer theory, the boundary conditions and initial conditions are given. The influence of the change of ground temperature field and the change of pile-soil interface temperature on the bearing capacity of the foundation was studied after the auxiliary pile was poured. The analysis shows that the measure to increase the bearing capacity by adding auxiliary piles is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the auxiliary piles themselves constitute the bearing capacity together with the original pile foundation after thawing, on the other hand, the auxiliary piles are constructed by the method of pouring concrete in the field. The hydration heat of concrete makes the temperature of the original foundation soil rise, and reduces its bearing capacity. The whole bearing capacity will not be increased at the initial stage, but also will be temporarily reduced, and the whole bearing capacity will be formed after the frozen soil is frozen back in the later stage.