为探究砂土液化的微观机理,根据室内试验中微生物反硝化反应气泡的生成速率,建立数值模拟的时效性关系,分别制取微生物处理0天、2天、3天和5天的高饱和砂土试样,采用CFD-DEM耦合方法模拟不同工况下砂土试样的循环三轴不排水剪切试验.依据砂土试样的力链分布、抗液化振次、孔压比、轴向应变和力学配位数在加载过程中的变化情况,从宏微观角度分析砂土试样的抗液化能力.模拟结果表明:含微生物气泡高饱和砂土的抗液化强度较饱和砂土有所提升;随着微生物处理时间的增加,砂土试样的饱和度降低,孔压比和轴向应变的累积变慢,抗液化能力增强.

The microbially induced calcite precipitation is a promising technology to improve ground, and the treated soil can be regarded as the structural one. In this study, firstly, based on the three-dimensional (3D) contact model for granulates incorporating rolling and twisting resistances and 3D bonds failure criteria, and considering both the slight plastic deformation of particles during collisions and the rate-dependency, a cyclic bonded contact model is established. A time-dependent relationship is then proposed to describe the denitrification reaction in reinforced sand. Next, the mechanical responses of microbially treated sands at different cementation and bubble contents are investigated by the coupled CFD-DEM in undrained-consolidated cyclic triaxial tests. The effects of biological bond and biological bubbles on the liquefaction resistance of sands are analyzed in link with the mechanism from macroscopic and microscopic scales. The results show that the coexistence of cementation and bubble does not increase the liquefaction resistance as expected in the form of "1+1=2". The presence of cementation enhances the liquefaction resistance of unsaturated sands evidenced by the decrease of excess pore water pressure ratio and axial strain, and the increase of coordination number. However, the presence of bubbles reduces the liquefaction resistance of cemented sands, where the number of cycles to the initial liquefaction decreases, the axial strain increases significantly in the tensile direction, and the coordination number decreases significantly.